LIVE from the 14th Street Busboys and Poets. Hosted by Union City Radio's Chris Garlock. Sponsored by the Washington DC Federation of Musicians, AFM 161-710. Engineering by Jerry Paris and Robin Smith; produced by Ed Malaga and co-produced by Chris Bangert-Drowns. The 2018 DC LaborFest wraps up with a night of jazz with local musicians from the Washington Musicians Union: Carl Cornwell, saxophone; Wade Beach, piano; Steve Novosel, bass; Nasar Abadey, drums. Carl Cornwell: Saxophonist with Project Natale (https://www.reverbnation.com/projectnatale), Mike Thornton Jazz Collective and Maurice Lyles. Co-founder of Gil Scott-Heron's Amnesia Express before embarking on a career in computer systems development. After moving to Washington, DC. Carl became a mainstay at Harold's Rogue and Jar night club, performing regularly as a sideman and as leader of his own quintet. Carl toured the US and Europe as saxophonist, arranger and sometime pianist with Gil Scott-Heron. Wade Beach is widely respected for his harmonic sophistication and superb technique, which knows no stylistic limitations. He holds a master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Maryland. He entered the world of jazz as a protégé of Sir Roland Hanna and toured the globe many times over with the United States Air Force Band jazz ensemble, The Airmen of Note. Mr. Beach keeps an active teaching and performing schedule, performing with groups around the DC area, including The Jazz Update Band. Steve Novosel is an American professional jazz bassist and educator whose 40-plus year career has spanned numerous genre, from traditional jazz to swing, bebop, mainstream and avant garde. Steve has toured with Red Norvo, Tal Farlow, Al Grey and most recently, with David “Fathead” Newman. In addition to his previous 57 recordings, he has several on Mapleshade including Portraits in Ivory and Brass with Jack Walrath and Larry Willis and Every Rung Goes Higher with Willis and Steve Berrios plus singer Kenyetta. Nasar Abadey is a drummer and composer who’s the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA, and who has also built a solid reputation as a sideman with several groups, performing with many national artists throughout his career. Abadey began playing drums at age five, drawing influences from powerhouse drummers such as Tony Williams, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey and cousin Frankie Dunlop, to name a few. Nasar Abadey creates music which he refers to as Multi-D: multi-dimensional, multi-directional. Mr. Abadey is currently a Professor of Jazz Percussion in the Jazz Studies Department at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD
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20: That’s how many veterans die from suicide every single day, which experts say is in part due to an economy where working people can’t get ahead. The working men and women of the AFL‑CIO join the Union Veterans Council to wish all a safe Memorial Day today.
This is a time to respect and remember those who gave their lives for the bedrock freedoms we cherish. Let’s honor their sacrifice by redoubling our efforts to secure and make real those freedoms for every worker in America, so working people can win new economic rules built on broadly shared prosperity. Honor our veterans by fighting for full funding for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and support efforts to train and employ our veterans for good union jobs. On today’s labor calendar, catch the DC LaborFest screening of “Swing Shift” at 5:45 today at the AFI Silver, as Goldie Hawn and Christine Lahti star as women who take jobs as riveters on a bomber assembly line during World War II. Details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history, On this date in 1946, at least 30,000 workers in my hometown of Rochester, N.Y. participated in a general strike in support of municipal workers who had been fired for forming a union. Today’s labor quote is by Eugene V. Debs, who said: “You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! This year’s first-ever Laborpalooza MusicFest -- live from the Hyattsville Busboys and Poets -- showcased an exciting lineup of talented musical artists from the DC-area labor movement. Emceed by LaborFest coordinator Chris Garlock and Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant, Laborpalooza featured the DC Labor Chorus, roots rocker Joe Uehlein and the ULiNERS and Moose Jaw Bluegrass. The show was broadcast live on WPFW 89.3 FM.
Top soundfile: DC Labor Chorus; The ULiners (part 1) Bottom soundfile: The ULiners (part 2); Moose Jaw Bluegrass Laborpalooza was produced by Chris Bangert-Drowns and engineered by Michael Nasella and Robin Smith. Photos by Bruce Guthrie (l-r): Garlock and Bryant; DC Labor Chorus; The UliNERS; Moose Jaw Bluegrass; crowd singing "Solidarity Forever" with the DC Labor Chorus Chris Garlock hosts Brandon Weber, author of "Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in American History," with Will Fischer, director of government relations for VoteVets (and wrote the intro for "Class War, USA), Jaime Contreras, SEIU 32BJ on the battle for worker rights by local airport workers and State Department cleaners, and Elise Bryant on the first-ever Laborpalooza Musicfest on May 26, 8pm at Hyattsville Busboys and Poets. |
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