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.

Playlist for 4/5/11

Theme: Phish and the Story of The Story of the Ghost

Brian and Robert
(Phish, The Story of the Ghost)

My Left Toe
The Name Is Slick
What's the Use?
Fish Bass
Quadrophonic Toppling
The Happy Whip and Dung Song
Insects
Title Track
Albert
(Phish, The Siket Disc)

In a Misty Glade
Say the Same for Me
Never
Bittersweet Motel
Somantin
Samson Variation
(Phish, The Story of the Ghost outtakes)

Twist
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 04.02.98)

Fikus
Frankie Says
The Moma Dance
End of Session
(Phish, The Story of the Ghost)

Providence Soundcheck Jam
Shafty
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 04.03.98, recorded 4/4/98)

Playlist for 3/29/11

Theme: Furthur in Fairfax

Soulfood Man
(Mike Gordon, Inside In)

Candyman
Two Djinn
(Furthur, Furthur Live: 03/17/11 Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA)

Suskind Hotel
Idea
(Mike Gordon, 11/16/2010 Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN)

Fire on the Mountain >
Cumberland Blues
(Furthur, Furthur Live: 03/17/11 Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA)

Mound
(Mike Gordon, audience recording, 3/26/11)

Terrapin Station >
Standing on the Moon
(Furthur, Furthur Live: 03/17/11 Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA)

NOTES. "Terrapin Station" includes "At a Siding" and "Terrapin Flyer" sections.

Playlist for 3/8/11

Theme: Trey Anastasio Band, February 2011

Night Speaks to a Woman
(Trey Anastasio Band, 2/19/2011 The Palace Theatre, Albany, NY)

Moanin'
whisper Not
Evidence
(Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, FM soundboard recording, 12/4/58)

Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan
Black
The Birdwatcher
Sand
(Trey Anastasio Band, 2/19/2011 The Palace Theatre, Albany, NY)

Off Minor
Straight, No Chaser
Bemsha Swing
Well You Needn't
(Thelonious Monk, soundboard recording, 4/15/61)

Ooh Child
(Trey Anastasio Band, 2/20/2011 House of Blues, Boston, MA)

It Makes No Difference
Push On 'Til the Day
(Trey Anastasio Band, audience recording, 2/26/11)

Playlist for 3/1/11

Theme: Summertime Phish

Chalk Dust Torture
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 06.25.10)

The Moma Dance >
Free
(Phish, Live in Brooklyn, recorded 6/17/04)

Backwards Down the Number Line
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 06.12.10)

Mike's Song >
Lifeboy >
Weekapaug Groove >
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
(Phish, Live Phish 12, recorded 8/13/96)

Rock & Roll >
Columbia Jam
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 06.26.10)

Playlist for 2/22/11

Theme: A Coltrane/Radiohead/YMSB Trifecta

Giant Steps
Cousin Mary
Countdown
Spiral
Syeeda's Song Flute
Naima
Mr. P.C.
(John Coltrane, Giant Steps)

The National Anthem
I Might Be Wrong
Morning Bell
Like Spinning Plates
Idioteque
Everything in Its Right Place
Dollars and Cents
True Love Waits
(Radiohead, I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings)

My Gal
Romance Blues
Easy as Pie
Amanda Rose
Kentucky Mandolin >
Ruby >
Follow Me Down to the Riverside >
Ruby
(Yonder Mountain String Band, matrix recording, 10/3/08)

Playlist for 2/15/11

Theme: Grateful Dead, November 1973

Stash
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 10.31.10)

Weather Report Suite
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 11/21/73)

Fat Man in the Bathtub
All That You Dream
Spanish Moon
(Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus)

Playing in the Band >
Uncle John's Band >
Morning Dew >
Uncle John's Band >
Playing in the Band
(Grateful Dead, Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings, recorded 11/10/73)

Dixie Chicken >
Tripe Face Boogie
(Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus)

Eyes of the World
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 11/17/73)

Playlist for 2/8/11

Theme: Talking Heads / Grateful Dead, Early 1969, Pt. 2

Burning Down the House
(Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense)

Stay Hungry
Cities
I Zimbra
Crosseyed and Painless
(Talking Heads, soundboard recording, 8/23/80)

Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
(Talking Heads, audience recording, 10/30/80)

Dark Star
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 4/21/69)

Heaven
Slippery People
Life During Wartime
Making Flippy Floppy
(Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense)

Houses in Motion
(Talking Heads, audience recording, 8/21/83)

What a Day That Was
Once in a Lifetime
Girlfriend Is Better
Take Me to the River
(Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense)

(Turn On Your) Lovelight
(Grateful Dead, Live/Dead)

Playlist for 2/1/11

Theme: Grateful Dead, Early 1969, Pt. 1

Dupree's Diamond Blues
(Grateful Dead, Aoxomoxoa)

That's It for the Other One >
New Potato Caboose
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 3/1/69)

It's Ice >
Swept Away >
Steep >
It's Ice >
Theme from the Bottom
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 12.07.97)

St. Stephen >
The Eleven >
Death Don't Have No Mercy
(Grateful Dead, soundboard recording, 2/28/69)

Tube
Tube Jam >
Slave to the Traffic Light
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 12.07.97)

Playlist for 1/25/11

Theme: Miles Davis, On the Corner and After

Rated X
Billy Preston
(Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions)

Jack Straw*
Peggy-O**
(Grateful Dead, Road Trips, Vol. 3, No. 4, recorded *5/7/80 and **5/6/80)

Ife
(Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions)

Me and My Uncle >
Big River
(Grateful Dead, Road Trips, Vol. 3, No. 4, recorded 5/6/80)

Mtume
Minnie
(Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions)

The Other One
(Grateful Dead, Road Trips, Vol. 3, No. 4, recorded 5/6/80)

Black Satin
Holly-Wuud
(Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions)

Blues for Allah
(Grateful Dead, Blues for Allah)


NOTES. "Rated X," "Billy Preston," and "Mtume" originally released on Get Up with It. "Ife" originally released on Big Fun. "Black Satin" originally released on On the Corner.

Playlist for 1/18/11

Theme: Old Phish, New Phish, Red Phish, Blue Phish

Can't Stand Still
Fire from a Stick
What Things Seem
(Mike Gordon, Moss)

Roggae
Seven Below >
What's the Use?
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 12.27.10)

Halley's Comet >
Run Like an Antelope >
My Sweet One >
Fixin' to Die >
Ya Mar
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 11.30.94)

The Void
Spiral
(Mike Gordon, Moss)

Down with Disease >
Ghost
(Phish, Live Phish Downloads 12.31.10)

The Wooster Jam Returns 1/18/11

The Wooster Jam will make its triumphant return to the airwaves on January 18 at a new time—10pm to midnight, Tuesday nights. Be sure to tune in, and tell your friends.

—Alex