We're Back

The Wooster Jam returns tonight, September 4, at 10pm. That's right—we're now on Sunday nights at 10pm. Tune in tonight and Sundays all semester, folks—lots of fine music dead ahead.

—Alex

Wooster Summer Break

The Wooster Jam will return in late August (likely Tuesday 8/30) for the fall 2011 semester. Mark your calendars.

—Alex

Playlist for 5/10/11

Theme: Grateful Dead, Spring 1977, the Sequel

Lazy Lightnin' >
Supplication
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 5/25/77)

Scarlet Begonias >
Fire on the Mountain >
Good Lovin'
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 5/11/77)

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 5/25/77)

Dancing in the Street
Estimated Prophet
(Grateful Dead, matrix recording, 5/8/77)

Comes a Time
(Grateful Dead, matrix recording, 5/9/77)

Terrapin Station
(Grateful Dead, To Terrapin: Hartford '77, recorded 5/28/77)

Morning Dew
(Grateful Dead, matrix recording, 5/8/77)

Playlist for 5/3/11

Theme: Little Feat

Skin It Back
(Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus)

Got No Shadow*
On Your Way Down*
Two Trains**
Texas Rose Cafe**
Cat Fever**
(Little Feat, FM soundboard recording, 7/19/73, *early show and **late show)

Introduction / Maiden Voyage
Actual Proof
(Herbie Hancock, Flood)

Voodoo Jam >
All That You Dream
Down on the Farm >
Candyman >
Down on the Farm
(Little Feat, audience recording, 8/20/05)

Butterfly
Chameleon
(Herbie Hancock, Flood)

Fat Man in the Bathtub >
Get Up, Stand Up >
Scarlet Begonias Jam >
Fat Man in the Bathtub
(Little Feat, audience recording, 8/20/05)

NOTES. "Skin It Back" released as a "previously unissued outtake" on the 2002 Rhino reissue of Waiting for Columbus. This is not the version originally released on Hoy-Hoy!, which also appears on that reissue.

Playlist for 4/26/11

Theme: Legion of Mary

Tough Mama
I Second That Emotion
Talkin' 'Bout You
(Legion of Mary, The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary)

Split Open and Melt
(Phish, audience recording, 8/10/97)

I'll Take a Melody
Money Honey
Last Train from Poor Valley
Mystery Train
(Legion of Mary, The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary)

Harry Hood
(Phish, audience recording, 8/10/97)

Playlist for 4/19/11

Theme: Aphex Twin / Can / "Stink Kind"

Xtal
Ageispolis
i
Green Calx
(Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92)

Improvisation > Soup
(Can, FM soundboard recording, 8/25/73)

We Are the Music Makers
Ptolemy
Hedphelym
(Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92)

Tatgirdid Janit
(Can, FM soundboard recording, BBC Studios, 1974)

Wolfman's Brother >
Makisupa Policeman
(Phish, Live Phish 11, recorded 11/19/97)

NOTES. I received the Can bootleg in a physical trade and cannot locate the recording for download online. If you would like a copy, shoot me an email at CParrott12 AT wooster DOT edu.

Playlist for 4/12/11

Theme: Charles Mingus, 1959

Better Git It in Your Soul
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Boogie Stop Shuffle
Open Letter to Duke
(Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um)

Big Boss Man
Standing on the Corner
Next Time You See Me
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 7/16/66)

Bird Calls
Fables of Faubus
Pedal Point Blues
(Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um)

Cream Puff War
Viola Lee Blues
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 7/16/66)

Slop
Diane
Gunslinging Bird
Far Wells, Mill Valley
Mood Indigo
Put Me in That Dungeon
(Charles Mingus, Mingus Dynasty)

NOTES. "Pedal Point Blues" released as a bonus track on reissues of Mingus Ah Um, including the 2009 "Legacy Edition," which bundles together Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Dynasty, and assorted outtakes.