KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Presented by Harry S. Baptist

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1970.11.11

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

58 min

Dates

1970-11-11 | broadcast
| 1970-11-11 | created

Description

An eclectic collage of mostly unidentified music and sounds supposedly presented by those legendary KPFA music directors Harry S. Truman and John the Baptist. Some of the music heard can be tentatively identified as jazz pieces by the Phil Yost Trio, Chick Corea, and Benny Goodman, others seem to be by the Senufo peoples of Ivory Coast, and the pygmies of Burundi, as well as at least one and possibly two excerpts from Lou Harrison’s “Pacifika Rondo”. The program ends with an ambient sound recording that appears to be of a tropical rain forest perhaps mixed with the sounds of a game of pool. While the identity of some of these sounds may be subjective the adventurous and pleasing nature of the mix is not to be doubted.

Genres

Jazz
Field recordings

Musical Selections

[unidentified piece] / Phil Yost Trio -- [tribal chants] / [recorded by Hugo Zemp] -- Pacifika Rondo: The Family of the Court (1963) / Lou Harrison -- [song from Burundi] -- [unidentified work] / Chick Corea -- [unidentified piece] / Benny Goodman -- [unidentified piece] -- [song from Burundi] -- [unidentified music] / Lou Harrison ? -- [unidentified music] -- [unidentified music] -- [birdsongs, raindrops, and pool ball sounds]

Performers

Phil Yost Trio
Oakland Youth Orchestra (Pacifika)
Robert Hughes, conductor (Pacifika)

Subjects

Jazz
World music
Music -- Ivory Coast
Orchestral music
New music
Music -- Burundi
Clarinet with jazz ensemble
Birdsongs
Ambient sounds
Field recordings

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Phil Yost Trio
Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra
Yost, Phil
Zemp, Hugo
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Hughes, Robert, 1933-2022
Corea, Chick
Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986