WCRS Podcast - Night Tunes

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 03-19-10 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 10:54am

58:18 minutes (53.38 MB)

For more than 25 years, new age multi-instrumentalist/composer David Arkenstone has been crafting music for movies and TV, and more recently, even for computer games. This hour features three pieces from one of his most recent recordings.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 03-12-10 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 9:58am

57:36 minutes (52.73 MB)

The Irish/American group Nightnoise was a primary force in the 1980s and 90s in the fusion of Celtic music with elements of jazz and classical chamber music, as evidenced in the couple of pieces you'll get to enjoy in this hour. The rest of the fare ranges from Italian Renaissance music to jazz accordion to the mellow Americanism of singer/guitarist James Taylor.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 03-12-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 9:47am

58:32 minutes (53.59 MB)

The Belgian native Jean-Baptiste Frederic Isidor Thielemans, better known as "Toots," has been playing jazz for close to 70 years, first as a guitarist and then as a harmonica virtuoso, which is how he got his nickname. In tonight's first hour, you'll hear first-rate performances by Toots Thielemans on both the instruments he's mastered. We'll also mark the 40th anniversary of the release of one of Elton John's best albums, the American-West-themed "Tumbleweed Connection."

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 03-05-10 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 4:21pm

58:40 minutes (53.72 MB)

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 03-05-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 4:20pm

58:31 minutes (53.57 MB)

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 02-26-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 10:27am

58:31 minutes (53.57 MB)

Jeri Southern was a very accomplished jazz singer who started out as a classical pianist and, after just a decade of recording jazz, left the business to teach and then became successful as a composer/arranger in Hollywood. Some of her best jazz sides frrom the mid- to late 1950s have been recently reissued, and we'll hear a few of them in this hour. Also featured is the maverick master of steel-string guitar, John Fahey.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 02-26-10 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 10:18am

58:31 minutes (53.57 MB)

He's usually called the "Father of the Symphony," but Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn didn't really invent the form. What he did do was give a new shape and depth to the symphony, turning it into a kind of repository for a composer's most important ideas. He began doing that in the very earliest of his 100-plus symphonies. Movements from three early Haydn symphonies figure prominently in this week's second hour. You'll also get to sample the jazz piano of Cincinnati native Fred Hersch, the sound of Native American flute, and a lullaby recorded outdoors in the Grand Canyon.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 02-19-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:30pm

58:50 minutes (53.87 MB)

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 10-02-09 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:28pm

58:35 minutes (53.65 MB)

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 02-12-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 3:00pm

58:27 minutes (53.51 MB)

For more than 40 years, Rod Stewart has been using his trademark raspy voice to cover everything from hard rock to folk-influenced pop to the Great American Songbook. This hour features two of his most successful tunes from the early portion of his solo career. There's Bach to go along with that rock, as French pianist Helene Grimaud covers two of the Baroque master's well-known themes. Add to that some West Coast jazz, some Celtic fiddling, and two tunes from South America, and you've got enough variety to keep the hour fairly interesting. Enjoy!

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