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Matt “Fat Cat” Rivera, host, Hot Club on the Air: Chu Berry’s Little Jazz Ensemble (Big Sid Catlett), “Forty Six West Fifty Two” (1938).

Sam Seliger, Librarian and Archivist: Charles Mingus Sextet (Dannie Richmond), “So Long Eric” (recorded for TV broadcast, Stockholm, 1964).

“The break is on YouTube in a 25-second video titled ‘best drum solo ever.’ Richmond does everything a drum solo should be in just a few bars. It’s not showy, it's impressively sparse; so much of what he does is about subtle manipulation of rhythms and

Percussion? Sure, he is unquestionably masterful, but it's not about that at all; he is interrogating the text. He finds the rage and terror that those two creators had to have felt to have written as they did, explores how they used their crafts of drama and poetry to express it, and responds in kind. You want "...Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up..."? Listen to Pulse and you will hear Richard dragging his bones across the floor, Poe's narrator's heart exploding out of his chest.

I was with Shannon on tour one time and a journalist asked him why he wasn't playing the fancy dinner club where many Jazz artists played in that town. Shannon said, 'Look here: you want to come hear me play while you sit and eat a nice steak? I will barbecue that steak in your belly!' To borrow Shannon's terminology, no fat rats' asses given."

Charlie Smith, former In All Languages silver jewelry to prepared beers to roasted corn. But the best boats to pass by are the musicians' boats: I maintain that the best marimba players I have ever heard are here, balancing (literally!) their skillful playing with staying aboard an unstable vessel. Though the marimba playing is ubiquitous and you will hear it no matter what, if you shell out a few dollars you can request a tune, from the standard Mexican repertory or even marimba versions of pop songs. The music, especially the marimba, is reason enough to make the trip. Every time I visit I make some field recordings—who knows?, maybe one day they'll be on air."

Department Head: The Carpenters (Karen Carpenter), “Dancing in the Street” (live on Your All-American College Show, 1968).

Cliff Preiss, host, Friday Jazz Alternatives: Jazz at the Philharmonic AllStars (Jo Jones), “C-Jam Blues” (live, October 15, 1957).