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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=62480&ordering=-airdate
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Quite simply, Lalo Schifrin is a master of feeling.\" --\nHere's a fan's tribute to Lalo Schifrin: https://dougpayne.com/ls_score.htm", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592717, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592717/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:14:44-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Theme From Enter the Dragon", "track_id": "01d18e01-3885-3251-8437-ebc7f068e1d9", "recording_id": "be579c7f-cfc3-4eff-b347-3ee56a3d1d96", "artist": "Lalo Schifrin", "artist_ids": [ "adf017f5-76d6-4d31-b1b9-a0211675e7c2" ], "album": "Enter the Dragon", "release_id": "dd57b616-7cc3-4a57-8912-7703ac19636c", "release_group_id": "ba0595a5-4ec8-3c4d-8a76-33b3724d0dee", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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The very talented Upchurch played with Quincy Jones, Donny Hathaway and Michael Jackson, was an in-demand session musician, and helped create Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman.\" : https://variety.com/2025/music/news/phil-upchurch-dead-guitarist-composer-1236599436/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592715, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592715/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:05:23-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Trem de doido", "track_id": "313aefa3-6431-4138-87b5-c6c62d60a5a3", "recording_id": "98056700-1032-4e57-b666-27b2444d6bb8", "artist": "Lô Borges", "artist_ids": [ "5bddb0fa-66f7-47c8-bf00-afecab627d59" ], "album": "Clube da Esquina", "release_id": "53c31a17-289a-4544-a3f9-5c53e06f3e05", "release_group_id": "b29e94e7-0b0b-3a66-ab06-e02f8fa5054f", "labels": [ "Odeon" ], "label_ids": [ "40eff784-c102-4045-b32d-f74d1449756d" ], "release_date": "1972-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Extraordinary Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter Salomão Borges Filho, known professionally as Lô Borges, died this year at age 73. \n--\nAlong with his friend Milton Nascimento, he created one of the most celebrated albums in Brazilian music history, 1972's \"Clube da Esquina,\" featuring many of his compositions. In the same year he also released his first solo album, which gained similar recognition as a Brazilian classic. Borges may not have achieved Nascimento’s international celebrity, but he played a key role in transforming his country’s music.: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/14/lo-borges-obituary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592714, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592714/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:01:32-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Hermeto", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "cb45a346-f6f7-41bf-8d37-e9384549cf03", "artist": "Hermeto Pascoal", "artist_ids": [ "c7a4c4a0-9544-44e3-87f2-5779d18b753f" ], "album": "Hermeto", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "124936fb-a05f-4432-ab46-21a45960cb89", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1972-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"As he always taught us, let us not be ruled by sadness: listen to the wind, the birds, a glass of water, a waterfall — universal music keeps breathing,\"\n\n\"If you wish to honor him, let a single note ring — from an instrument, your voice, or a kettle — and offer it to the universe,\" wrote his family.\n\nThe prolific Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal died this year at age 89. Nicknamed \"the Sorcerer,\" Pascoal resembled a wizard from a storybook — both in his personal style, and his ability to create magical sounds from unusual places. His list of collaborators ranged from Airto Moreira to Miles Davis, who referred to him as one of the most important musicians in the world.: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/15/nx-s1-5542177/hermeto-pascoal-whimsical-brazilian-composer-nicknamed-the-sorcerer-dies-at-89", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592712, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592712/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:56:56-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d0d55d72-f77d-44e6-99f9-59a0eacb3ee8/5224225688-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d0d55d72-f77d-44e6-99f9-59a0eacb3ee8/5224225688-250.jpg", "song": "Broken English", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "afc44735-6c7a-4243-81fd-549fa74848ed", "artist": "Marianne Faithfull", "artist_ids": [ "14ed9dea-1bb0-4743-ba32-39674a71da89" ], "album": "Broken English", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "96e40648-a0e2-320b-9592-fff4a49d9395", "labels": [ "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull,\" Mick Jagger wrote. \"She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. She will always be remembered.\" Marianne Faithful died in January at age 78. She released 22 solo albums and collaborated with many big names in music.: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/31/marianne-faithfull-obituary\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592713, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592713/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:55:21-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592711, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592711/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:50:00-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/65759636-3b8d-4623-816f-af833579ba1d/1900949434-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/65759636-3b8d-4623-816f-af833579ba1d/1900949434-250.jpg", "song": "Passenger", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3f8be4f7-4252-4029-8c7c-21282a817d3d", "artist": "Grateful Dead", "artist_ids": [ "6faa7ca7-0d99-4a5e-bfa6-1fd5037520c6" ], "album": "Terrapin Station", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0750c8a7-1fe0-3e32-b303-29bf483dbb43", "labels": [ "Arista" ], "label_ids": [ "c62e3985-6370-446a-bfb8-f1f6122e9c33" ], "release_date": "1977-07-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Enjoy this tribute to Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux, who has died at age 78: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/04/donna-jean-godchaux-grateful-dead-tribute\n--\nIn 1970, already a music industry veteran at 23, she had spent five years as a member of Southern Comfort, a group of singers regularly employed as backing vocalists at the renowned Fame studios in her native Alabama. But she was rigidly unimpressed with her San Francisco friends’ undying devotion to Jerry Garcia and co. She hated the band’s name and loudly opined that the only reason people liked them was because they were invariably out of their minds on drugs when they went to see them live. In fact, she could prove she was right: she offered to attend a Dead show sober, certain she would hate it.\n\nIt proved a fateful decision. By the end of the Dead’s set at the Winterland Ballroom, Thatcher – ostensibly retired from music – had announced: “If I sing again, it will be with this band”.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592710, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592710/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:45:59-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "S.A.T.O.", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6256b1c2-c6e5-4d32-b450-003eb2302b54", "artist": "Ozzy Osbourne", "artist_ids": [ "8aa5b65a-5b3c-4029-92bf-47a544356934" ], "album": "Diary of a Madman", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5e8dc90d-610e-3d85-8884-a1449d74e6cc", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1981-11-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "According to Songfacts, the title “S.A.T.O” refers to the initials of Sharon Arden –Osbourne's second wife’s name before they married – and his first wife, Thelma Osbourne. The song was originally titled “Strange Voyage” and inspired by a letter written by a 13th-century monk titled “A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering.\"\n--\nHere's a live performance of this song in Houston in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoOn2z5toI", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592709, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592709/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:40:52-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ad6c6b58-23bd-471d-bafa-bf0e2b3f2636/5254303248-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ad6c6b58-23bd-471d-bafa-bf0e2b3f2636/5254303248-250.jpg", "song": "After Forever", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "13a8a0c5-7648-4f6a-a7bd-64103509c93b", "artist": "Black Sabbath", "artist_ids": [ "5182c1d9-c7d2-4dad-afa0-ccfeada921a8" ], "album": "Master of Reality", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "e51e9779-2edc-3b39-959c-299fdb5ed940", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1971-07-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "“Sabbath never set out to be legendary,” Ozzy Osbourne said in 2005. “The only thing we set out to do was scare people.”\n--\nR.I.P., John Michael \"Ozzy\" Osbourne, the \"Prince of Darkness,\" who died in July at age 76. In this essay, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats reflect son the legacy of this singular figure: https://pitchfork.com/features/ozzy-osbourne-obituary-john-darnielle/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592708, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592708/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:33:54-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "To Hell With Poverty", "track_id": "bd6b6d1a-f831-3ee1-b3d5-b0d40cc0e28c", "recording_id": "d7fb67a3-7833-4b14-97f3-bac5f93bb226", "artist": "Gang of Four", "artist_ids": [ "d8661c02-f423-4d72-8044-40ff05daf7a1" ], "album": "Solid Gold / Another Day/Another Dollar", "release_id": "3b580171-c758-3b6a-b30e-0eae8a0d61fb", "release_group_id": "79b8dd72-a4de-37d6-97e0-fdb7e25b89d8", "labels": [ "Infinite Zero" ], "label_ids": [ "4a64815e-cd98-4ffa-9858-508899c15b7f" ], "release_date": "1995-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"We’ve been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives.” --Gang of Four\n--\nGang of Four bassist Dave Allen died this year at age 69 from early-onset mixed dementia. \n\nAllen was in Gang of Four for its 1979 debut, Entertainment!, and the second album, Solid Gold, in 1981. Gang of Four, which formed in Leeds, England, in 1976, is credited with helping to define a funk-inflected post-punk sound that went on to inspire groups like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592707, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592707/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:27:08-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1680a2dd-ed29-4240-b69f-938d12c880d0", "artist": "Pere Ubu", "artist_ids": [ "5a54b72e-bfb3-4ca6-944a-e17261399965" ], "album": "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "db32e8ef-8117-3f32-89aa-4d6f13185eb1", "labels": [ "Hearthan" ], "label_ids": [ "da031acb-581b-40d2-b740-867539cf281c" ], "release_date": "1975-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Thomas, the irreverent experimental musician who led the influential band Pere Ubu, died April 23 after a long illness. He was 71.\n\nPere Ubu had an enormous influence on the burgeoning late 1970s post-punk and no wave movements, courtesy of legendary singles (the 1975 debut \"30 Seconds Over Tokyo\" and the following year's ominous \"Final Solution\") and a pair of 1978 LPs, The Modern Dance and Dub Housing.\nOver time, Pere Ubu's imprint was heard on countless bands that resisted categorization; to name a few, Wire, Mission of Burma, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Nine Inch Nails and Mr. Bungle.:https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/g-s1-62547/david-thomas-pere-ubu-obituary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592706, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592706/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:24:47-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "In the City", "track_id": "6cf534e7-e590-3879-b214-89c1d8dbef75", "recording_id": "1c313948-966e-4ef1-ac05-f5e5df60f9a9", "artist": "The Jam", "artist_ids": [ "23228f18-01d5-493e-94ce-cfcde82a8db2" ], "album": "In the City", "release_id": "3a55bafb-ea33-372e-98f6-dd6868063a21", "release_group_id": "5cdc81f5-29a3-3866-8e13-9f271d3615eb", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1997-08-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R.I.P., renowned drummer Rick Buckler, who died in February at age 69.\n--\nBuckler, who also pursued writing and furniture design and restoration, was best known among music fans for his time with the Jam. The rock trio formed in 1972 and featured Buckler, guitarist and singer Paul Weller and bassist Bruce Foxton. The group gained fame for hits including “Town Called Malice” and “That’s Entertainment” and for its debut album, “In the City,” which The Times dubbed in 1993 “an absolutely galvanic celebration of British teen rebellion.”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592705, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592705/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:22:08-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Neat Neat Neat", "track_id": "908d62b8-ed92-398b-8020-0ff2b81cc1af", "recording_id": "f37f5017-5ad3-4c44-95cb-8e409089e39e", "artist": "The Damned", "artist_ids": [ "77d21c13-846f-4f48-9546-873949eff6ae" ], "album": "Damned Damned Damned", "release_id": "96c27010-925a-4e75-86a4-b55ad42480c5", "release_group_id": "3ed0e51d-62a4-3957-ab42-579c6f8c148b", "labels": [ "Stiff Records" ], "label_ids": [ "df57ad64-fae7-4976-a8a0-d6d344867e09" ], "release_date": "1977-02-18", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Brian James, the founding guitarist of trailblazing British punks the Damned, died in March at age 70. \n\nThe Damned have an exceptionally important place in rock history, releasing “New Rose,” arguably the first-ever punk single in the U.K., in 1976. The Damned also were the first band of their scene to release a studio album (1977’s “Damned Damned Damned”) and to tour the United States. : https://www.brooklynvegan.com/brian-james-the-damneds-founding-guitarist-dies-at-70/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592704, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592704/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:19:07-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Bad Girl", "track_id": "51688063-8c98-3909-9213-3b9068540bf4", "recording_id": "33f1ab30-acbc-491b-a642-d230a73a9d4a", "artist": "New York Dolls", "artist_ids": [ "1b96b9c9-0832-40cb-9f8d-7274de3733fc" ], "album": "Rock 'n' Roll", "release_id": "7c5b3d96-8108-44c7-ad83-d8cb790ad821", "release_group_id": "792fbbea-30a4-30ae-8f02-b78e46b6962b", "labels": [ "Mercury Records" ], "label_ids": [ "995428e7-81b6-41dd-bd38-5a7a0ece8ad6" ], "release_date": "1994-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Johansen, frontman for the New York Dolls and the last surviving original member of that pioneering punk band, died in February at the age of 75. The singer also moonlighted as his swing music alter ego Buster Poindexter and, as an actor, appeared in films like Scrooged and Let It Ride.\n--\nThe New York City-born Johansen was best known for his work in the pioneering punk group the New York Dolls, with whom — during the band’s initial run in the first half of the Seventies — he recorded a pair of influential glam punk albums, 1973’s New York Dolls and 1974’s Too Much Too Soon, with Johansen co-writing the bulk of the albums with guitarist Johnny Thunders.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592703, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592703/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:12:21-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cc3e9a56-f606-4a70-bc4b-cb92c47d1aef/14571912184-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cc3e9a56-f606-4a70-bc4b-cb92c47d1aef/14571912184-250.jpg", "song": "Melting Pot", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0f163296-2876-4d2a-aa3b-d3a9a8e55166", "artist": "Booker T. & the MG’s", "artist_ids": [ "377015fb-c02f-4b05-960b-e0df6a7ea99e" ], "album": "Melting Pot", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dabb1ca1-775b-3c9a-88ac-56590e8deb49", "labels": [ "Stax" ], "label_ids": [ "3d60c9cf-c020-49e8-a803-2189c146b880" ], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG guitarist, songwriter and producer who was instrumental in the rise of R&B powerhouse Stax Records, recently died in Nashville at 84. The musician helped to define what became known as the Memphis Sound as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the house band at Stax Record label. He also wrote and produced some of American pop music's most foundational songs.\n\nHe cowrote the 1967 hit (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay\" with Otis Redding and created the groovy instrumental track \"Green Onions' with Booker T. & the M.G.'s. \n--\nHere's a remembrance: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-1156028/remembering-steve-cropper-guitarist-and-member-of-stax-records-booker-t-the-m-g-s", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592702, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592702/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:07:45-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Bienvenue À La Maison", "track_id": "854ad2fb-91d8-4522-b954-a4fdaab96acd", "recording_id": "b54a8368-fb2d-4090-bf1e-23ee79f0b833", "artist": "Amadou & Mariam", "artist_ids": [ "1fb60b6c-0f4d-42b4-8a5e-de705ec76660" ], "album": "L’amour à la folie", "release_id": "4e0e6a67-1d2f-45f8-bc3b-2b50f3fd5d5d", "release_group_id": "d664d0de-cf6f-4d92-98a1-d56f754155fa", "labels": [ "Because Music" ], "label_ids": [ "23450486-837c-46a6-8b3f-b22429a0dfe1" ], "release_date": "2025-10-24", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam died in April at age 70.\n\n One of the most successful African musical acts of the 2000s, husband and wife duo Amadou & Mariam achieved global fame by combining West African influences with rhythm and blues.\n\nTheir breakthrough album, 2004's Dimanche à Bamako, sold half a million copies worldwide and led to collaborations with Blur's Damon Albarn, as well as appearances at the Glastonbury and Coachella festivals.\n\nThousands gathered for the blind musician's funeral in Mali: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0zq4elez9o", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592701, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592701/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T14:03:52-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "La Malanga", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Eddie Palmieri", "artist_ids": [ "42b5af45-312e-4dc1-ad0c-84dea2d5dcb2" ], "album": "Superimposition", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "11087ccc-b06f-35ea-b64b-2713e6cb8ae3", "labels": [ "Fania" ], "label_ids": [ "a00f1d54-2e47-492b-b24b-3b994b2ba0c4" ], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Eddie Palmieri, a pianist, composer and bandleader whose contributions to Afro-Caribbean music helped usher in the golden age of salsa died in August at age 88. \nIn the 1960s and early '70s, Palmieri released a string of albums with his orchestra La Perfecta. They fused syncopated Afro-Caribbean beats and jazz stylings.\n\nSongs like \"Bilongo,\" \"Café\" and \"La Malanga\" featured Palmieri's signature, highly percussive piano playing. His was a full-bodied technique, employing forearms, elbows and even an occasional growl from the maestro himself.: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/1197084433/eddie-palmieri-latin-jazz-legend-has-died\n--\nDon't miss this live performance of \"La Malanga\" in Berlin in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveKQkHmBXw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592699, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592699/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T13:56:49-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Chicago", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b8ea1c34-8c93-4c80-9e3a-c8f49c96419a", "artist": "Roy Ayers", "artist_ids": [ "06e199c1-6f33-477b-a74d-bc8a283bd8f0" ], "album": "Lots of Love", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "85810fcd-be98-463e-b7ed-59e2e5ad3fb3", "labels": [ "Charly Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a754ad77-2842-4ed4-a6e7-fb6b1fdc7f40" ], "release_date": "1983-11-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Someone wrote, \"In 1983 Roy Ayers released a song called Chicago. This was a few years before House music came out but this is pure House Music.\"\nOriginally issued on the vibist’s own Uno Melodic label in 1983, the album\" Lots of Love' captures Roy Ayers between major-label tenures with Polydor and Columbia, and he capitalizes on his independence by further investigating the Afrobeat rhythms and textures he first explored in his collaboration with Fela Kuti while simultaneously moving into post-disco dance music.\n--\nQuestlove wrote about Roy Ayers, \"The King Of Neo Soul.\nThe cat who birthed us all in the “vibes only” movement.\nThe Soundtrack that ALL the incense you ever burned was truly made for.\n\nThank You Roy Edward Ayers Jr for EVERYTHING you gave us. taught us. showed us. soothed us.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
