half the folks here have jazz radio shows

[alocispepraluger102]

what themes would you use if you had a show?

aloc would use lester young's closing theme from his royal roost concerts or a bean version of ' the jeep is jumpin' .'

Edited June 3, 2008 by alocispepraluger102

[Stefan Wood]

Peter Brotzmann's Machine Gun

[Chuck Nessa]

I'd have a "turn the radio off and play your own tunes" show.

[alocispepraluger102]

[clifford_thornton]

I never had "theme songs" on my radio shows.

One program I had about eight or nine years ago was called Revolutionary Ensembles.

There was no Thom Yorke on it, I'll say that much.

[BillF]

Sadly, listeners to BBC Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests are greeted each week with Wynton Marsalis's "Oh, But on the Third Day", which certainly hasn't been requested by me. In my youth I listened to Radio Luxembourg's Jamboree Jazz Time, which announced its arrival each week with the sensational opening bars of Shorty Rogers' "Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud". That I could take every week!

[Christiern]

If a forgotten, bitter old has-been yearning to be an egomaniacal New York college radio guy who interrupts his fantasy-laden rambling with music to catch his breath, may be allowed to respond...

I have had many themes over the year, from Googie René to Miles, but my favorite theme was the one written and recorded for me by Roswell Rudd--it didn't have a title, but it worked.

BTW, I first became aware of the theme concept when, as a teenager in Copenhagen, I regularly listened to a show from AFN Frankfurt that had Charlie Barnet's "Skyliner" as its theme.

[alocispepraluger102]

If a forgotten, bitter old has-been yearning to be an egomaniacal New York college radio guy who interrupts his fantasy-laden rambling with music to catch his breath, may be allowed to respond...

I have had many themes over the year, from Googie René to Miles, but my favorite theme was the one written and recorded for me by Roswell Rudd--it didn't have a title, but it worked.

BTW, I first became aware of the theme concept when, as a teenager in Copenhagen, I regularly listened to a show from AFN Frankfurt that had Charlie Barnet's "Skyliner" as its theme.

i've forgotten what willis conover's VOA theme was. i think it was a trane thing.

[king ubu]

I like the Bob Dorough theme used on the French Station France Musique's show "Jazz Club" - which is also a great show: two hours of live jazz, broadcast from clubs in Paris (sometimes also from someplace else in France).

[alocispepraluger102]

I like the Bob Dorough theme used on the French Station France Musique's show "Jazz Club" - which is also a great show: two hours of live jazz, broadcast from clubs in Paris (sometimes also from someplace else in France).

great show. i've lost track of the times. can you give a clue< please?

[robviti]

for me, the choice depends partly on what time of the day or night the show airs. i'd choose something with a faster tempo for a morning or afternoon show than i would for one in the evening or late evening/wee hours of the morn. eric in the evening, a 7pm-midnight show on wgbh signs on with tommy flanagan's wonderful recording of horace silver's peace. stereo jack used to have a great show on the same station saturdays from 1am-5/6, but i'll let him tell you his theme if he wants to.

i'd start my show with flamenco sketches from kob. i know it's not a very original choice, but the song has such a hauntingly beautiful melody, and that performance really sets the late night mood for me.

Edited June 3, 2008 by jazzshrink

[Christiern]

I don't know if anybody still does this, but some DJs (myself included, a couple of times) also used background music, something soft to talk over. I recall using one of Ray Bryant's cuts from a solo Prestige album, it set a mood that seemed right for a laid-back all-night show.

[JSngry]

I don't know if anybody still does this, but some DJs (myself included, a couple of times) also used background music, something soft to talk over.

Yeah, there was a local guy here who did that, used that 2nd Duke Pearson big band album, various cuts. Not soft music always, but he did the fade up & down to make it soft when he spoke, louder when he didn't.

Edited June 3, 2008 by JSngry

[BillF]

i've forgotten what willis conover's VOA theme was. i think it was a trane thing.

When I used to listen to Willis Conover's Time for Jazz on VOA fifty years ago, his theme tune was always a 1950s version of the Ellington orchestra playing "Take the A Train". I was reminded of it recently when ghost did a Night Lights show on Conover.

Edited June 3, 2008 by BillF

[Alexander]

Back when I had a radio show, I used "Lonely Woman" by Horace Silver as the theme for my jazz show. My pop music show (the Art of Rock and Soul) used Joni Mitchel's "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" as the theme. When I changed the show to "One Nation Under A Groove," I used the Funkadelic song as my theme.

[paul secor]

I wouldn't have a theme song. A good friend of mine has done a radio show for over 20 years. I helped him do his show for almost ten of those years. He's used the same two songs as intros and outros for his show over all of that time. They're both good tunes, but after hearing them over the years, I don't think I'll ever want to hear them again. I wouldn't want to play something over and over and burn it out.

Not a comment on what my friend has done. I'm sure he feels that using the same tunes has given his show continuity, and it probably has.

[clifford_thornton]

That said, I'm still looking for a "Ghosts" ringtone.

[king ubu]

I like the Bob Dorough theme used on the French Station France Musique's show "Jazz Club" - which is also a great show: two hours of live jazz, broadcast from clubs in Paris (sometimes also from someplace else in France).

great show. i've lost track of the times. can you give a clue< please?

Read all about it here:

http://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em...ion.php?e_id=19

I wouldn't know what time that is in your time zone... do you listen via internet?

"Le jazz, probablement...", "A l'improviste" and "Jazz sur le vif" are other shows including live recordings (in the case of "Le jazz..." it's usually some tracks off new discs and then bits of a concert).

The whole list of shows is here:

http://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/liste/

[alocispepraluger102]

I like the Bob Dorough theme used on the French Station France Musique's show "Jazz Club" - which is also a great show: two hours of live jazz, broadcast from clubs in Paris (sometimes also from someplace else in France).

great show. i've lost track of the times. can you give a clue< please?

Read all about it here:

http://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em...ion.php?e_id=19

I wouldn't know what time that is in your time zone... do you listen via internet?

"Le jazz, probablement...", "A l'improviste" and "Jazz sur le vif" are other shows including live recordings (in the case of "Le jazz..." it's usually some tracks off new discs and then bits of a concert).

The whole list of shows is here:

http://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/liste/

thank you. i listened a great deal to musiques till a couple years ago and just got out of the habit.

[.:.impossible]

That said, I'm still looking for a "Ghosts" ringtone.

Can't you just make it yourself?