THIS WEEK's BIRDS: BACK LIVE in studio, Friday night (after a year of remote broadcast, plus the six week haitus): cante jondo from El Cabrero; el Lebrijano; Jimenez Rejano & others; Fairuz; dhrupad singer Pandit Iran Nath; Albert Ayler; Henry Threadgill; new microtonal guitar improvisation from Lingyuan Yang; vintage Youisou n'Dour; Romanian Roma vocalist Romica Puceanu; Polly Panou from Greece; Karl Berger & friends in Turkey; music from Rajasthan; bardic song from Khorassan (Iran); vintage high-life from Vis-a-Vis; and, of course,as ever, so much more....

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/21219502/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

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THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Cheikh Tidiane Fall w/ Bobby Few et al.; bop from Johnny Griffin; post-bop from Charles Davis; Szilárd Mezei w/ Quartet; new compositions from Jason Kao Huang and large ensemble; Ethiopian pop, new & vintage, from Tilahun Gessesse, Afework Nigussie, Abyssinia Band; trombonist Craig Harris & Nation of Imagination (Turkish/expeirmental vocal jazz); new music from Ivo Perelman w. Matthew Shipp (duo) & Ivo Perelman w. Quartet; orchestral composition from Muhal Richard Abrams; ghazals from Tahira Syed & Ghulam Ali; Tian Niu (disco from South-East Asia); Peter Bruun, Søren Kjærgaard & Jonas Westergaardand; Greek vocal from Gerolykoi & Stella Haskill; and, of course, ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20922833/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

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THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian composer, conductor, old player, etc. Mohammed Abdel Wahab; Lebanese out player/vocalist Fayssal Al Massri; vintage Gulf Pop from young Rabeh Sager; Avreeayl Ra w/ trio live in Chicago; improvisation from Kaze w. vocalist Koichi Makigami; new piano trio from Myra Milford; vocalist Jeong Lim Yang; George Schuller's Circle Wide; Pakistani raga from Ustad Bade GHulam Ali Khan; Raza Ali Khan & Ustad Munawar Ali Khanand reprise & salute Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan; tappa performed live in Benares by Purnima Chaudhuri w. Ramesh Misra & Subhajyoti Guha; recent compositional post-bop from Yuriy Seredin w. Igor Osypov, Nasheet Waits, Ben van Gelder, Igor Spallati & Bogdan Gumenyuk; Algerian cha'abi favorite Dahmane el Harrache; Austro-Turkish jazz fusion from Gülistan; Greek vocalist Oula Baba; early Tuareg guitar/synth pop from Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou; and of course, ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20922833/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from guitarist Lingyuan Yang; samba from Neguinho da Beija-Flor; Bossa from Da Silva Do Sul Et Son Ensemble; Bridgette Fontaine; Paul Dunmall Brass Project; new music from percussionist Dan Weiss; classical vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi from Iraq; Senegalse salsero Laba Sosseh w. Super Star de Dakar; American salsa from Hector Lavoe; Sonora Ponceñal; Roberto Roena w. Adalberto Santiago; vintage Congolese rumba from Orchestre Kara De Kinsahasa; vocalist Thandi Nuti w. Carlos Nino; Mark Masters reprises Sam Rivers; Sam Rivers does Sam Rivers; vocal raga from Parveen Sultana; ghazal from Iqbal Bano; Tunisian pop-jazz from Fatima Charli; Gulf pop from Mobarak Almaatooq; Groupe El Hemri from Morocco; and, as ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20891034/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

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THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Fred Jackson (vintage bop); Olga Chung, Munir Bashir & Rabih Abou-Khalil (mid-eastern fusion); Columbian sound system culture from Wulomei; reed player Mikko Innnanen w. Organ trio; new music from guitarist/composer/improvisor Mary Halvorsen;Portugues fado from Maria José Silva; long form Sonny Fortune; James Brandon Lewis salutes Mahalia; Gulf vocalist Abu Bakr Salem; Kurdish ney trio (Trio Andalabi); vintage Peloponnesian Demotika from Anthe Alexandropoulou & her orchestra; Rosalia de Souza, Mart'nalia, Paula Lima (perf. Martinho da Vila) and Carmen Costa from Brazil; Bandha Maravilha (from Angola); Clément Janinet w. Adama Sidibe; West African musique authenticite from Orchestre Regional De Mopti; Malian Wagadu pop pop from Mamadou Mariko; legends from Lebanon: Wadih al Safi, Fairuz; twaarab from coastal Kenya perf. by Nyota Ndogo; vintage salsa from Orquesta Experimental; Cuban salsa from Wayne Gorbea, Elite Revé; and, as ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20853914/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

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THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Jewish music from Iraq (Hakki Obadia); Md After Hussain; Colombian Cumbia from Lisandro Meza; Papa Brandao Y Su Ejecutivos & more from Panama; piano trios from Paul Bley & Myra Melford; Daniel Carter, Roy S. Campbell Jr. & William Parker (I,.e, Other Dimensions in Music); vintage Fairuz; new guitar music from Ayman Fanous & Joe Morris; new music from Immanuel Wilkins; Lusophonia: Titina, Teofilo Chantre (from Cabo Verde), Adriana Calcanhotto, Elza Soares (from Brazil); Eastern European song from DakhaBrakha; African rock from Bikambi n'Kela; Gordon Koang (South Sudanese pop in exile); Faisal Abdullah (Khaliji song from Kuwait); Palestinian composer Tamer Abu Ghazaleh; and as ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20824617/Conference-of-the-Bird

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vesna Pisaroviç (Croatian avant-jazz-folk vocals); Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio; a Pakistani Khayal from Ustad Saami; Bulgarian vocal music from Stamatka Kirilova & Staro Selo; Balouchi benju maestro Abd-ur-Ramian Surizehi; William Parker Quartet w. Leena Conquest; Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band; Greek songs from Gabriel Pantelides & Takis Vrakatselos; cante jondo from Duquende, Agujetas, Lebrijano (doing Romani); Ghanian Highlife from K. Frimpong; Nigerian pop from Nelly Uchendu; Algerian sax player Fred Khodja; Algerian Rai from Abdulrahmane Dealt; from Morocco: Abdelouahab Doukkali & Abderrahmane Djalti; so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20788514/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

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THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vintage Indian Film music x 2 (Shanta Apte & Suraiya); Hindustani vocalist Shubha Mudgal;Raga Shuddah Kalyan performed by Gangubai Hangal; new music from Chad Khoury; new music from Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson; Kyriakos Sfetsas vintage Greek fusion); jazz from UK: Elton Dean; Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri reprise (radically) George Enescu's famous Oedipe; Freedom Art Quartet (the name says it); Macedonian hard bop from Dusko Goykovich; neo-Rembetika from Dimitris Mystakidis and Kalafatis Kostas: Balkan song from Vidanka Djordjievska and Petranka Kostadinova; Albert Ayler reawakened by Jukka Orma, Pepa Päivinen, Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Ville Rauhala & Simo Laihonenand; saxophonist Zoh Amba; vocalist Catalin Milea w. Mircea Tiberian et al. (as always) so much, much more.

Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN:

https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com

via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580

Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.

Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online:

PLAYLIST at SPINITRON:

https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/20729499/Conference-of-the-Birds

and via the Conference of the Birds page at www.WRFI.ORG

https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks

Find WRFI on Radio Garden:

http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR