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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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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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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THE SINTALATIN' SIZZLA HAS ANOTHER HUGE WORLD WIDE HIT * * "MAMMA MEK MI DEH YAH SO" * * . . . soon to be podcast ON WAGRadio' GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 09 - SIZZLIN' SUMMAH CHOON BY THE SIZZLA MAN ! ! !

HE BACK OUT HERE AGAIN AND HE'S TELLING US SOMETHIN' WE ALL KNOW . . . AIN'T NOBODY LIKE A BOY'S MAMA.
SIZZLA DOES IT AGAIN !   A BREADBACK PRODUCTION.


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Oh, YES ! ! B3 ORGAN PLAYER - Mr. TERRY "Fingers" BRADFORD GROOVES OUT WITH "WALK WITH ME, LORD" - - July 23, 2010 - - St. LOUIS, MISSOURI . . .

Mr. TERRY "FINGERS" BRADFORD sounds very much like a WAGRadio favourite tasty B3 master from the past - CHRIS COLUMBO.  Rockin' (literally) the organ, "Fingers" walks his way through this one with the help of DRE BOYD on drums, MARIOLE SANDERS playing bass and guitarist GREG HAYNES.  The joyous congregation at the Friendly Temple in St. Louis, Missouri delights in the music with a more-than-appreciative ear.

Thanks to the JazzWax blog for this one.


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THIS Cd COVER for KENNY GARRETT'S "SEEDS FROM THE UNDERGROUND" . . . has to be A FRONTRUNNER for JAZZ ALBUM COVER OF 2012 . . . on Mack Avenue Records

This latest KENNY GARRETT Cd's Art Direction and Design is by Timothy Zach and the photo is by Keith Major.  We here at WAGRadio love the look of this thing - with its clever use of Kente print (African tartan) plus the immediacy of the no-nonsense font incorporated with a deft touch by art director Zach.


The music contained within, with its latin influences and straight ahead style, is one of the best we've heard this year.  Although we wouldn't go so far as to call the Cd this year's most wonderfully fabulous jazz release (some wag will quote this - leaving out "wouldn't") it does have "enuff in the grooves" to warrant a Groovin' Blue Format nod & smile.  
The hit choon of this great Cd, for us, is "Wiggins" which will be featured on the soon-to-be-podcast 
GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 09 . . .

"Seeds From The Underground" by KENNY GARRETT  [Mack Avenue Cd #1063]

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** WAGRadio hopes all our LISTENERS GET TO SEE THE INDEPENDENT MOVIE "THE WRECKING CREW" REAL SOON . . . H.B. BARNUM (A DJZigZag New World African American Music Hero) TALKS 'BOUT THE FILM . . .

WAGRadio suggests that everyone attend a screening of "The Wrecking Crew".
                                      
Also, to view the many YouTube videos connected to the film - go to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WreckingCrewMovie?feature=watch
Thank you to Yvonne Young (wife of guitar legend Henry) for first turning us on to this great movie.

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WILL THIS BE "THE HIT CHOON" OF GROOVIN' BLUE 12 - 09 ? ? IT'S DOZE NAWLINS BOYS - THE SPEAKERS & THEIR RAUNCHY ROBUST RELEASE - "AND HER TOO" . . . she goes down her friend comes up !

CAN'T GET ENUFF OF THAT MR. J. SMITH STUFF ! ! HERE'S JIMMY AND HIS TRIO IN FRANCE

It's Mr. J. Smith on organski, Mr. Charlie Crosby on drumzoozles and Mr. Eddie McFadden on geetar.
This performance was in Paris, France at the concert hall Salle Pleyel in 1969.  James Smith was at his peak of excellance extraordinaire.

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WAGRadio HAD TO RE-SHARE THIS ICONIC PHOTO THAT APPEARED A WHILE BACK ON THE JAZZ WAX MUSIC BLOG - BIG JAY McNEELEY ROCKIN' AND ROLLIN' UP A HURRICANE - MASTER PHOTOGRAPH by L.A. PHOTOG LEGEND BOB WILLOUGHBY

Bob Willoughby's 1951 photograph of heralded honkin' histrionic honker BIG JAY McNEELEY 

- Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles CA -

The great American blog 'Jazz Wax' featured Mr. Willoughby in a recent post. 

We here at WAGRadio thank our on-staff music adviser - Mr. Kenny 'Brushes' Harris - for (once again) turning us on to a great blog.

You can access Jazz Wax here . . . http://www.JazzWax.com/

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DJZigZag TELLS US THAT THESE ARE THE TWO BOOKS HE'S READING THIS SUMMER of 2012 . . . SEEMS LIKE HE'S GONE BACK FOR THESE TWO GEMS !

On a recent trip to Bellingham, Washington,  DJZigZag dug out this used 1982 publication "MEMPHIS: A Folk History".  While the book devotes only a few pages to the rich New World African Music history of this Tennessee town built on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff, it is rich in the lore of the city that in 1923 was declared Murder City, U.S.A.  Thirty years later it was being billed as the Nation's Quietest City.  Mid twentieth century Stax Records with its roster of stars - Johnny Taylor, Otis Redding, The MG's (Memphis Group), Rufus Thomas, Sam & Dave, Mabel John etc indelibly mark the city as Soul City, U.S.A. in the minds of the world's Black Music lovers.


DJZZ has also been spurred on by reading "THE ONE: The Life and Music of James Brown" by RJ Smith and the gentle coaxing of Sunny Sweet Daddy Fonk to order and finally begin reading "THE JAMES BROWN READER: 50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul" (2008).  From early writings of Chicago Defender scribes to later musings by writers in Goldmine, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Penthouse and The Montreal Star this collection has added to a more complete understanding of the enigmatic Soul Brother No. One. 

WAGRadio's Sunny Sweet Daddy Fonk standing across the street from the Sun Records studio in MEMPHIS TN, Oct. 2010

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