John Coltrane Centennial Celebration-thecoltranehome.org
This past Wednesday 9/23/26 marked the centennial of composer, instrumentalist, primary 20th century musical innovator and Long Island native John Coltrane’s 100th birthday. Here at the Melting World we are celebrating by playing his later material from 1965-1966 featuring music from his second quartet with his wife Alice on piano, Rashid Ali on Drums, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Pharoah Sanders augmenting the quartet on tenor saxophone.
In Melting World style we will focus on their spiritual quest into uncompromising improvisational long form renditions of past popular compositions and more.
The beginning of our show will feature new music from Gary Lucas & Lukas Ligeti, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa’s 2025 archival release from 1974.
The Deep Drift segment will go to India with a sitar raga from Usted Vilayat Khan.
Only here Saturday night at Midnight (Sunday 12-5am) at the place where unique sounds begin WUSB 90.1 FM and wusb.fm.

Opening set
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Autumn in New York (ELLA AND LOUIS AGAIN, Verve)
Pesky J. Nixon, Breathe in Autumn (MONKEY BUSINESS & MISLAID HOPES, Self released)
Jack Hardy, Autumn (BANDOLIER, Great Divide)

Set # 2
*Paul Simon & Edie Brickell, Under African Skies (forthcoming, THE QUIET CELEBRATION CONCERT, Legacy)
Paul Simon, Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (GRACELAND, Warner Brothers)
John Stewart & Darwin’s Army, The Boy in the Bubble (DARWIN’S ARMY, Appleseed)
Justin Townes Earle, Graceland ,(ALL IN::UNRELEASED & RARITIES, New West)
Richard Thompson, Galway to Graceland (WATCHING THE DARK, Hannibal)
Elvis Presley, Trying to Get to You (RCA single, 1956)
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Set # 3
*Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, Soon I Might Be Going (SECOND SONG, Reprise)
Joni Mitchell, Urge for Going w/strings (BLUE SESSIONS, Rhino)

Set # 4
Stephane Grappelli, Autumn Leaves (AFTERNOON IN PARIS, MPS)
Eva Cassidy, Autumn Leaves (SONGBIRD, Blix Street)
Tom Waits, Last Leaf (BAD AS ME, Anti-)
Norma Waterson, Fallen Leaves (THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU, Hannibal)

Set # 5
*OCMS, My Side of the Mountain (UNION MADE, Hartland)

living it up

9/26 show - chill, rainy night but like cool i hope

rain show hello

All vinyl!

filthy 50 and more

Americana Awards, That Thing You Do, a look at "American Girl," Tom Petty's last show

Rick Gatteau and Judi Brown Clarke speak with Lav Varshney, inaugural Director of Stony Brook University’s AI Innovation Institute, about the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence. Then, a conversation with Chief Privacy Officer Adam Roughley about how our digital habits, searches, location, and device data are tracked, utilized, and monetized.

Voices for Transparency and Excellence is a production of Stony Brook University's Office of Student Affairs and DI3.

Editor: Melanie Formosa
Producer: Dini Diskin-Zimmerman

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