Global A Go-GoGlobal A Go-Go: Friday July 30, 5-7 PM

I’ll start out this week’s program with a tribute to Willem Breuker, the Dutch composer and bandleader (that’s his ensemble, the Willem Breuker Kollektief, pictured above; Willem is fourth from the right in, you guessed it, the top row) who passed away on July 23.

Podcast is here:  http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/44561

Podcast catalog is here:  http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go

Breuker’s music is beyond category to be sure — it encompasses the full scope of jazz history from New Orleans to free improvisation, the vernacular music of Breuker’s native Amsterdam, more than a pinch of broad audio and visual humor, and so much more.  If you’d like to know more about this absurdly under-appreciated artist, Kevin Whitehead’s tribute on NPR’s Fresh Air radio program is really worth a listen:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128819529

Also this week: salsa and mbalax from Senegal, the intoxicating sound of Kenyan benga, and one of those uniquely Global A Go-Go sets that finds a mere three degrees of separation between American semi-commercial rock and Bavarian brass band music.