{"id":25387,"date":"2017-04-26T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25387"},"modified":"2017-04-26T23:24:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:24:41","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-april-30-may-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-april-30-may-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, April 30-May 6 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FTIOMPROMOMay12017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25388\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FTIOMPROMOMay12017-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FTIOMPROMOMay12017-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FTIOMPROMOMay12017-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FTIOMPROMOMay12017.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/unclebillslogo-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24638\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/unclebillslogo-copy-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/unclebillslogo-copy-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/unclebillslogo-copy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From The Isle of Music, April 30-May 6<\/p>\n<p>April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and April 30 is International Jazz Day. In honor of this, we dedicate this week to the new generation of Jazz musicians in Cuba and to a wonderful series of recordings in Cuba, the Jazz Young Spirit. Our special guest is Gloria Ochoa, one of the most important figures in Cuba&#8217;s music and recording industry today and, among many other things, the Producer of many of the albums in that series.<br \/>\nFour pos<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">sibilities to listen via shortwave:<br \/>\n1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in all directions with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)<br \/>\n2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EDT in the US)<br \/>\n3 &amp; 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Episode 10 of Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, a clandestine musical variety program that features everything from everywhere EXCEPT music that you are probably familiar with, ,will air on WBCQ the Planet, 7490 KHz, Thursday, May 4\u00a0from 2300-2330 UTC (7:00pm-7:30pm EDT in the Americas). Brought to you by Tilford Productions, which also brings you From the Isle of Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Isle of Music, April 30-May 6 April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and April 30 is International Jazz Day. In honor of this, we dedicate this week to the new generation of Jazz musicians in Cuba and to a wonderful series of recordings in Cuba, the Jazz Young Spirit. Our special guest is Gloria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Bt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31494,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-apr-8-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":25387,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, Apr 8-14","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"April 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, April 8-14: April is Jazz Appreciation Month around the world, and we are going to celebrate by taking a look at some of the roots of modern Cuban Jazz in both Cuba and the United States. 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