I recommend that very very highly if you need to if you're interested in this kind of music and you would like to educate yourself on what it's all about and where it came from. The Ken Burns set is something you can't do without attending a d.v.d. Set for $100.00 that's a real good deal and you're a member of course and you get a tax deduction for the maximum amount allowed by the i.r.s. 260-2999 is the number in the 408 area code 255-2999 in the 831 area code my name's Jim Thomas and I'm down here for the last couple of hours I'm going to be here for one more hour for you trying to play music that you enjoy and trying to entice you to please become a member of this radio station I mean looking back at what I've got cued up and. I mean it was I was a Modern Jazz Quartet of course so let's listen to some music from one of the mainstays of jazz from the fifty's through the eighty's the Modern Jazz Quartet. RINGBACK. * Oh. Oh. READY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY it's. The Modern Jazz Quartet and a song called pyramid. Written by Ray Brown who was the great bassist of course and one time manager and husband of Ella Fitzgerald small world isn't it. Speaking of great bassists. I had the news yesterday from African. Dave is that. Barry a musician and a bassist John Shiflet passed away John was a fine musician and 1st choice on bass for anybody who came into the South Bay or the Bay Area in general in demand played with everyone on the Jazz scale but also played with Frankie Avalon and Dinah Shore and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in a 1st rate musician and a very fine teacher scores of people who went through San Jose State. Benefited from John's Toodle age. A genuinely nice fellow and a great musician. My thoughts and prayers to Bethany let's go ahead and play some more music this is Eric Dolphy stop everything hold everything I need to give you the phone numbers we're still raising money here to 60 to 999 if you're in the forward area code 255-2999 in the a 31 area code and we still have that 10 d.v.d. Set of the Ken Burns' series on jazz for p.b.s. That's available for $100.00 pledge. We have numerous single C.D.'s that are a $60.00 pledge to get you a cd and a t. Shirt and there are a number of box set still and if you ask the volunteer what's available they will be able to sort you out I'd also like to say thank you to Donna from Aptos Ariel from Watsonville and Carol from Santa Cruz. Like want to know your microphone file I was in the phone room I heard Bobby talking to someone. So there's only one called we still haven't thanked him. Or he would have just called to say hi he may have pilots if you're listening. It's always a pleasure he's all friend frenemy we go. To the skies been a loyal listener to our program indicate in general for. 30 years 35 years when we were doing the gospel according to be. 260-2999 in the for a 552999 in the 8th you want to recall there are a lot of good premiums and we still you know this marathon is still going on we're at $5475.00. Should be nice to make $6000.00 before we get out of here 6 o'clock. I'm not holding my breath but if somebody got a 500 dollar bill and they're trying to get rid of and don't want to give to the government and rather give to someone deserving. Kick e.p. Is always here to take your pledge if you could if you could afford a substantial donation. It would help us greatly We still are operating after all these years on an operating budget of you know $100000.00 or there abouts. Chump change compared to that the it was that's the kind of thing that falls out of Bill Gates' pants when he fold them up in the night also we pride ourselves on the fact that we run lean and mean 45 years ago the just basic subscription amount was 25 bucks and it still is still which is everything else is going to that we don't want to have to change than that we don't want to change our forms into the forms or change the letterhead or to change the initials on the top stayed married because I don't want to change initials. We'll just see 260-2999 before we get to silly 255-2999 please call become a member of Kiki help keep all listener sponsored 100 percent volunteer radio on the air there is no buddy down here who gets any money at all we are all volunteers nobody gets paid and that's what makes it so good there is no. There is no. Plane there is no bus there is no there no nothing. You know there's a there's a library. But also there's a lot of us to just bring in all our own material I'm as you might have known from the middle of that pop and still get on that Ornette Coleman record I'm playing mostly vinyl to so you know these are 50 year old records that were stick it on here when it's coming back and we're ready for it we have turned us. So please 260-2999 is keep it going make a pledge pick up a premium get a t. Shirt become a member of the be part of our family we would love to have you. Igs . The 7 forward. Early. Or well. On him. When Roy. You're. Going to. Hurt or limit a home. From an. Hour or. More or. More are. More or. I am. John Coltrane and death alone yes monk live at the Carnegie Hall is one of those things that people thought might have existed in the room or to exist and after 50 years they're damned if it didn't turn up if somebody found it a recording of Monk. When Coltrane was with the band great stuff and before that we heard a rebel feeling and Richard Davis doing it to wait on Come Sunday the Duke Ellington composition and today is Duke Ellington's Birthday Happy Birthday Duke we are currently at 5475 dollars 25 dollars shy of $5500.00 someone who would like to get a basic membership to. Spring $25.00 and become a member of k k u p I get a program schedule get a bumper sticker all that good stuff can call who $25.00 pledge and put us up at 55 $100.00 which is a nice round number if you could. Manner manage a little bit more that would be greatly appreciated a $45.00 pledge will get you the all Fitzgerald t. Shirt or. A bag for a $40.00 pledge you can get a regular cake. Or a license plate frame or a coffee mug or a baseball cap a $60.00 pledge will get you an Ella Fitzgerald t. Shirt and a cd of your choice and there's a lot of really good C.D.'s here I mean we've got Cannonball Adderly Louis Armstrong Art Blakey Dave Brubeck. Cab Calloway Tony Bennett just reading off this list the loneliest monk you're in McFarland legacy ensemble Charlie Parker Joshua Redmond Artie Shaw Horace Silver Cecil Taylor Mel tore me Steve. And on and on and on Miles Davis Duke Ellington you know Dizzy Gillespie a cd of your choice and a t. Shirt we have both men's and women's sizes 260-2999 is the number in the 408 area code 255-2999 the a 31 area code you can put it on your Master Card or Visa or we can just Bill you call and say have an invoice and as good as done Operators are standing by as they say so make the right ring up a little bit more really got another half hour to go I would still like to be able to generate a tad more income for this radio station to try to keep us rolling towards our goal of $10000.00 by midnight tomorrow night so if we can give them a nice but fat baton to head off it'll be very helpful for the folks who come after . King and will be on after us with a show of Miles Davis and the looniest monkey again you talking to and oh sorry Yeah Miles you know you're going to say something. Miles and Monk from $6.00 to $9.00 and that'll be big time fun and then on from 9 to midnight with hard and beyond and does an interesting and well thought out oh my god well educated program and well worth your listening to and pledging to so please stay tuned and enjoy this weekend of Jesper back on. Moral question I will be back tomorrow at 3 o'clock again to do 3 to 6 the same slot but way different music right I don't know we've got I've got a bunch of. Premium. In a. Box set in a Charles Mingus box set and uses premium so maybe we'll play some of this period stuff too anyway. If you'd like to pick up the phone and call 260-2999 or 255-2999 become a member would be greatly appreciated get us up over that 25 and that $5500.00 mark you could be the one to do it the 1st call that we get is going to put us over $5500.00 that's always exciting be that person please at get thanked on the air we'll patch on the back. 260-2999 or 255-2999 be the one to get us over the top some music from Sonny Rollins. From an album. Way Out West. No. That's. For. Wegen wheels so that's a tune associated with Tex Ritter more than Sonny Rollins but that's a really nice version of it so I'm. Going to add 15 minutes more to go here before we're out of here at the 2017 marathon Thank you all so much for all the folks who have called and supported a big thank you goes out to Gretchen from Santa Cruz and of course always from Bobby and Lynn and from my sauna in Palo Alto thank you so much for your support we really really really appreciated his grace and I said Listen has been with us supporting him for as long as we've been a k k u p pretty much so it's always good to hear from him. 260-2999 is the number here we are at $5770.00 so we got close at $6000.00 mark have 15 minutes to go. To 60 to 999 in the 4 to 55 to 999 in the one area code will be back with you tomorrow at the same time same station as they say 3 o'clock and I will be here tomorrow and look forward to hearing from you then I'm going to go out well I don't know if I'm going out or not I'm going to John Coltrane and Bill Jackson and see how far that goes towards the 6 o'clock hour again thank you all of the folks who have been kind enough to call with a support in support of k.p. End of this program is more than appreciated. Phone. And I'm. Going to. Vote no. No no no no. No. Bit of. The food. But I'm a. Rebel. And . By. The minute. A. Little. Bit. Better.