Sunday, August 26, 2012

WAGRadio's STUDIO "B" WAKES TO THE TIDAL MEANDERINGS of the MIGHTY FRASER RIVER SLOWLY SLIDING BY and BRINGING PROMISE OF AN ALL NEW GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 10


Recently, at its most tumultuous, the Fraser River cutting around the bend in front of WAGRadio studios has pushed 11,500 to 13,000 cubic metres of itself out to the Pacific Ocean.  And that's per second!
The constantly changing waterway - one of the world's great rivers - is a creative inspiration to and enhances the New World African Music sound of WAGRadio's Groovin' Blue format.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

THIS AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A FOTO OF "B" . . . SO HOW COME IT MAKES US FEEL SO GOOD (suppressing a little chuckle at the main man's "yeah, baby-ness")



We here at WAGRadio are guessin' 1956 . . . makin' the Blue One 29 or 30 years old . . . 
What do you think?

Thanks to one of our constant contributors Bro' Don Chessa.

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WESLEY ! WESLEY ! ! WESLEY ! ! ! - A LITTLE BIT O' "TWISTED BLUES" by THE WES MONTGOMERY QUARTET (Belgium 1965)





THIS WAS TWO YEARS BEFORE GROOVIN' BLUE FIRST AIRED ON CKLG-FM in VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA but THE Hastings Street East BOYZ was already deep into DIGGIN' MASTER MONTGOMERY from their East Van home. . .

Jimmy Lovelace - drums
Harold Mabern - piano
Arthur Harper Jr. - bass
Wesley Montgomery - geetar

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OH MAN, OH MAN . . . THIS AMERICAN 1977 SONNY ROLLINS T.V. COMMERCIAL for PIONEER HOME STEREO ELECTRONICS IS GUARANTEED TO GIVE YA' A SHIVER SOMEWHERE ALONG ITS SIXTY SECOND LENGTH. WONDERFUL SPOT ! !

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Thanks to JAZZWAX blog for hippin' us here at WAGRadio to this great TV commercial.

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

HOT SUMMAH TIME 2012 ! THE ALL-NEW GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 09 IS SITTIN' ON YOUR PLATE - READY TO BE ENJOYED . . .


Simple and soulful.  That's the kind of summer music meal we want.
Keepin' it soulfully simple are FRANK OCEAN, MASSPIKE MILES, R KELLY 
for the young'uns  . . .
and BRENTON WOOD, ETTA JAMES and LORD TANAMO 
for the grandmamas & grandpapas . . .
Also, the JAM-ROCK sounds of BUSY SIGNAL, GRAMPS MORGAN, CHRISTOPHER MARTIN and the sizzlin' one - SIZZLA KALONJI.
THROW IN the SUMMERTIME JAZZ of GROOVEATECH, TIM COLLINS with some JOHNNY GILL, SPEAKERS and TANK . . . AND WE GOT OURSELVES 
GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 09 ! ! !

Photo: Potatoe salad and smoked mackerel - Niklas
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GET READY Y'ALL CUZ THIS IS HOT ! ! FROM WAGRadio's GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 08 . . . it's BETTY WRIGHT with her huge hit - "IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME" - (David Letterman - Feb. 10, 2012)



Can't get enuff of Ms. B. Wright.  Still soulful afta' all these years.

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ON A FUTURE GROOVIN' BLUE - COULD IT BE THAT JAZZ SAXOPHONIST KENNY GARRETT WILL HAVE THE MOST POPULAR JAZZ CHOON OF WAGRadio's SUMMERTIME 2012 ? ? Stay tuned . . . . HERE'S THE KENNY GARRETT TRIO with "WIGGINS" (en live dans l'Heure du Jazz RTL présent) ...



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KENNY GARRETT IS SUCH A WONDERFUL "ACT" IN THE JAZZ FIELD.
HIS LIVE PERFORMANCES FIND ABILITY MATCHED BY A SHOWMAN'S CHARM.

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Thursday, August 2, 2012