Que Belo Castelo in Hayle again

Thanks to an enthusiastic response to our last gig there we are back at The Cornish Arms, Commercial Road, Hayle again this coming Saturday. If you live in this part of Cornwall why not come along and check us out? We'll be pleased to see you...

Samba, Bossa Nova and MPB

ADVENTURES IN THE DIN TRADE – programme 12. Friday 22nd JULY

This week's show was a little more adventurous then usual, being as it was an attempt to give an overview of the evolution of Brazilian popular song, but I hope you found it interesting. If you spotted any glaring mistakes in the narrative please contact me with any corrections. I shall be exploring other areas of the music in the near future so watch this space, or more importantly, listen to it!

ANDEI – theme tune

1. ELIANE ELIAS – Garota de Ipanema 3.53.

2. SERGIO MENDES – Fanfarra (Cabua-Le Le) 4.01

3. BAIANO – Pelo Telefone 3.11

4. CARTOLA - Corra E Olhe O Céu 3.25

5. NOEL ROSA – Conversa de Botequim 2.49

6. IVAN LINS – Conversa de Botequim 3.35

7. SÍLVIO CALDAS - Lenço no Pesoço 2.58

8. MOREIRA DA SILVA – Acertai do Milhar 1.45

9. SILVIO CALDAS – Aquarela do Brasil 3.09

10. CARMEN MIRANDA/ DORIVAL CAYMMI - O Que é Que a Baiana Tem’ 3.12

11. JOÃO GILBERTO – Chega de Saudade 2.00

12. JOÃO GILBERTO – Bim Bom 1.12

13. CHET BAKER – Look for the Silver Lining 2.40

14. CAETANO VELOSO – Tropicália 3.38

15. GILBETO GIL – Domingo No Parque 3.44

16. TOM ZÉ – O Riso e a Faca 2.41

17. CHICO BUARQUE – Apesar de Vocé 3.53

18. NOVOS BAIANOS – Brasil Pandeiro 3.56

19. ELIS REGINA – Casa Forte 2.51

20. EDU LÔBO – Zanzibar 3.14

21 BADEN POWELL/VINICIUS DE MORAES – Canto de Ossanha 3.27

22. MILTON NASCIMENTO – Ponto de Areia 5.58

23. JORGE BEN – Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) 3.53

24. CHICO BUARQUE/MILTON NASCIMENTO – Calice 4.03

25. JOYCE – Pelo Telefone / Essa Mulher 7.14

Catch-ups and completion - guitarists part four

Last Friday's programme concluded my series about guitarists. I should clarify that this was never intended to be a definitive list of great players - merely a definitive list of my favourites, as represented on my CD shelves. I know that for many people there are glaring omissions in my choices but the point is that they are my choices. As usual, for further information about any of these tracks, please get in touch and I will be only too happy to give you chapter and verse!

ADVENTURES IN THE DIN TRADE – programme 11. Friday 15^th JULY

THEME TUNE – Andei (fade at 1.30)

1. MANHATTAN TRANSFER – Twilight Zone 6.11

2. BLIND WILLIE DUNN (EDDIE LANG) - Church Street Sobbin’ Blues 3.00

3. EDDY PALERMO TRIO – This is Your Song 6.08

4. JOHN PARRICELLI – Scrim 5.42

5. JOE PASS- Grooveyard 5.37

6. WES MONTGOMERY – Fingerpickin’ 2.32

7. WES MONTGOMERY – Blue ‘n’ Boogie / West Coast Blues 13.30

8. MARCO PEREIRA – Um Pagode em Planaltina 3.47

9. GARY POTTER QUARTET – Yesterdays 4.27

10. DAVID GRISMAN – Dawg’s Bull 4.14

11. RICARDO SILVEIRA – Outro Rio 5.25

12. LEE RITENOUR – Blue in Green 8.00

13. ULISSES ROCHA & TECO CARDOSO – Infancia 6.29

14. JOHN SCOFIELD – Groove Elation 6.50

15.  MARTIN TAYLOR – Garden of Dreams 6.07

16. YAMANDU COSTA & HAMILTON DE HOLANDA – Chamamé 8.58

Another random selection

This week was unthemed  - it was just a bunch of favourites pulled out more or less at random, but nevertheless, I hope you found it to be a fairly balanced show. We'll be returning to the guitars again next week. Having got as far as 'R', I now have discovered yet another bunch of players that I've managed to miss, so I've had to back track a lttle. Still, nobody's perfect eh? Incidentally, my spell checker insists that there is no such word as 'unthemed' an suggests that I might mean 'Gunther'

I just thought Id mention it...

Voltarol at work at The Source F.M. - pictured by Matthew, the Station  Manager

ADVENTURES IN THE DIN TRADE – programme 10. Friday 8^th JULY

THEME TUNE – Andei

1. DAVE GRUSIN – Prelude II 5.39

2. NILSSON – Vine Street 2.50

3. DAVID GORDON TRIO – The Alchemist and the Catflap 6.33

4. BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES – The Flight of the Cosmic Hippo 4.29

5. IVAN LINS – Quadras de Roda 3.35

6. DONALD FAGAN – Ruby Baby 5.38

7. GIL EVANS – The Ballad of the Sad Young Men 4.00

8. JERRY DOUGLAS – Redhill 4.56

9. PAT METHENY GROUP – Last Train Home 5.38

10. DEODATO – Also Spracht Zarathustra 8.58

11. INGRID LAUBROCK – Underwater Garden 5.09

12. DJAVAN – Miss Susanna 4.06

13. DUKE ELLINGTON – Madness in Great Ones 3.27

14. IAN DURY – Razzle in my Pocket 2.57

15. LUIZ AVELLAR – Ninho de Vespa 4.01

16. ZIZI POSSI - Quem é Voce 4.13

17. MEREDITH D’AMBROSIO – There’s a Lull in my Life 3.56

18. LEO GANDELMAN – A Rã 4.43

19. KRIS GAYLE – All Blues 6.36

20.JOÃO BOSCO  Holofotes 5.15

I apologise for the somewhat abrupt ending of this track. It wasn’t my doing, honest!

Que Belo Castelo in Hayle

For those of you who wish to see Voltarol putting his money where his mouth is, why not come along to The Cornish Arms, Commercial Road,  Hayle on Saturday night? Qe Belo Castelo are playing an informal session from 9 p. m.  onwards . We will be  a four piece line up for this evening as our flute player is away at the moment but Dan Hughes has now joined us full time and his clarinet will be well to the fore. There may well also be some guest sitters-in.... see you there then.

Guitarists part 4

Well - here's the playlist for last Friday's show. I mentioned that I'd previously played a version of 'Vera Cruz' on an earlier show but then had a senior moment and couldn't remember which version it was. A quick check of my own postings reminded me that it was of course the Larry Coryell version. 

ADVENTURES IN THE DIN TRADE – programme 9. Friday 1^st JULY

THEME TUNE – Andei

1. PAT MARTNO – Dreamsville 4.58

2. EUCLIDES MARQUES & LUIZINHO 7 CORDAS – Turuna 5.23

3. PAT METHENY GROUP – Phase Dance 8.17

4. PAT METHENY GROUP – Third Wind 8.23

5. PAT METHENY/CHRISTIAN McBRIDE/ANTONIO SANCHEZ – Snova 5.56

6. JIM HALL AND PAT METHENY – Summertime 5.35

7. MILTON NASCIMENTO – Vera Cruz 6.34

8. HERALDO DO MONTE - Pôr-do-Sol 8.09

9. JOSÉ NETO – Fish ‘n’ Chips 7.52

10. PAULINHO NOGUEIRA - Quem te Viu, Quem te Vê 3.21

11. NOSSO TRIO – Vento Bravo 5.55

12. NOTENSTOCK - Tropiques 9.26

13. EDNALDO QUEIROZ – Dança Cigana 4.28

14. RAPHAEL RABELLO – Brejeiro 3.00

15. QUINTET OF THE HOT CLUB OF FRANCE – H.Q.C. Strut 2.59

16. EMILY REMLER – Carenia 6.19

Wails of the unexpected

Here are the details of last Friday's show. I slipped one in at the last minute - that's the Que Belo Castelo track - and I might have its position in the running order a bit wrong, so I apologise if that is the case. Things in the Voltarol household are finally beginning to slow down a bit so if all goes according to plan there will be a new posting here soon that isn't just a set list...

ADVENTURES IN THE DIN TRADE – programme 8.  Friday 24^th June.

THEME TUNE – Andei

1. GARY BURTON – Ravel Prelude: Le Tombeau De Couperin 3.14

2. CAETANO E GIL – Wait Until Tomorrow 3.25

3. NORMA WATERSON – Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of my Tears 2.53

4. PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS - Estupenda Graça 2.41

5. STEELY DAN – East St Louis Toodle-oo 2.45

6. BANDA MANTIQUEIRA – Airegin 5.56

7. DJAVAN – Sorri 3.19

8. WAYNE SHORTER (Weather Report) – Thanks for the memory 3.34

9. SERGIO MENDES – What is This? 4.44

10. MIKE MARSHALL – ‘Ravel’ 1.49

11. SIVUCA - Rhapsódia Gonzaguiana 9.21

12. COLIN HOGKINSON (Backdoor) – 32-20 Blues 2.26

13. BIX BEIDERBECKE – In a Mist 2.42

14. BOCA LIVRE – The First Circle 4.44

15. JIM MULLEN – Comin’ Through the Rye 5.26

16. NÁ OZZETTI – Carmen 3.30

17. BUDDY EMMONS & LENNY BREAU – On a Bach Bourée 6.29

18. GILBERTO GIL – Rebel Music 5.10

19. ROLAND PERRIN – California Here I Come 5.38

20. PAUO MOURA – Lady Be Good 6.50

21. QUE BEO CASTELO – Roi Diable 3.58

21. GARY BURTON & FRIENDS – Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs 5.16