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Reclaimed Soul (Thursdays 8-10PM CST)

Featuring sound rich interviews and an all-vinyl playlist (courtesy of host Ayana Contreras), Reclaimed Soul is about taking old materials (records, buildings, ideas, et al) to push us all forward.
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Back by popular demand… more Underground Motown. In our last installment, we focused on “The Funk Brothers”, Motown’s legendary band of studio (or session) musicians. Host Ayana Contreras spun rare instrumentals of songs many of us know and love.

Tonight, tune in as she spins rarities, dusties and b-sides from the Motown Records vault, including the Jackson 5 cutting a soulfully Al Green-ish record, and a variety of experiments in genius cross-pollinations.


Reclaimed Soul, Thursdays at 8pm CST on Vocalo.org

(illustration by French artist “Mega is Mega”)

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  • Feb 28, 2013 12:29 pm
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    Yesssir (and Ma’am). Ayana Contreras plays cuts from this rare LP tonight on Reclaimed Soul. The record, 1971’s “A Sun Lady for all Seasons Reads Her Poetry” by world-renowned poet Sonia Sanchez not only features the poet reading some of her best known works, it also featured her giving context to the pieces.

    For example, to introduce her poem called “Black Magic”, she states:

    “There’s a singer who is not really too political, but every now and then he says something in a song and in one of his songs he was saying about like we oughta jump back and kiss ourselves”…

    That singer was James Brown. She continues,

    “… And so I say to you, black people. we ought to start a five year plan of kissing ourselves - just jumping back and kissing ourselves, and then we gonna believe that we is bad, been bad, and we gonna get badder.”

    Sonia Sanchez

    All that, plus Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Lotus Palace, Horace Silver, Dizzy Gillespie, Labelle, Howlin Wolf, and much, much more…

    Reclaimed Soul. Tonight at 8pm CST on 89.5fm, 90.7fm in Chicago, and vocalo.org.

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    • Feb 21, 2013 2:47 pm
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    Ahhh, love. It’s so easy to get caught up in the highs, we forget all about the lows (aka catching the vapors). But not this Valentine’s Day. Not this installment of Reclaimed Soul. Host Ayana Contreras picks some of her favorites love stories, set to song. The good, the bad, the ugly, and a few classics.

    Reclaimed Soul, Tonight at 8pm CST. vocalo.org. Press Play.

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    • Feb 14, 2013 4:53 pm
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    Brazilian jazzy soul, Jamaican lovers rock, Gutbucket Memphis sounds, and Chicago surprises?! All spun on wax? It must be this week’s Reclaimed Soul! Tonight at 8pm CST. vocalo.org/player

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    Reclaimed Soul Episode 037: Otis Clay's Truth Is...

    On this installment of Reclaimed Soul, we’re be graced by Chicago vocalist Otis Clay. We listen to some favorite deep records from his 50+ year career that spans Gospel, Soul, and Blues.

    We also hear about the father figures in Otis Clay’s career, and about why he decided to start his own record label. He even talks about how it felt to find out that he’s “big in Japan” (among other places).

    Plus, we’ll sample his newest album, “Truth Is” which was produced and arranged by Chicago Soul heavyweight Tom Tom Washington (Tom Tom also contributed to this interview).

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    Jackie Ormes (1911 - 1985)

    To say Mrs. Ormes is an inspirational creator and ahead of her time is an understatement.

    Born Zelda Jackson, she was a journalist who was hired as a proofreader of the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the first major and most influential Black newspapers in the country. While at the Courier, Ormes created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, a story about a teenage singer from Mississippi who realizes her dream to perform at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem, New York.  

    After moving to Chicago in 1942, Mrs. Ormes wrote for another influential Black newspaper, the Chicago Defender (ironically a sibling publication to the Pittsburgh Courier since 2003) where she contributed feature stories, a social column, and after the end of the second World War, a one-panel comic strip called Candy (not to be confused with Alvin Hollingsworth’s comic strip Kandy), which was the misadventures of a sharp-witted housemaid who didn’t conform to the stereotypical Mammy archetype of the era but rather shapely, attractive, and realistic, a rarity in any medium.

    Mrs. Ormes returned to the Courier in 1947 and created a new one-panel strip that lasted 11 years. Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger chronicled the lives of a pair of sisters, a short, opinionated, sharp-tongue little girl named Patty-Jo and her older, statuesque sister Ginger. Patty-Jo was also the inspiration of a popular doll produced by Terri Lee Dolls and noted for its realistic Black American features as opposed to the Topsy/Mammy dolls of the day. Only produced for two years, the Patty-Jo dolls are collectors items. 

    1950 brought the reintroduction of Mrs. Ormes’ Torchy Brown, who was no longer a teenage performer but now an independent woman looking for love and a place in this world while taking on issues of the day, particularly civil rights, in a new full-color title, Torchy Brown in Heartbeats. In 1957, Mrs. Ormes retired from comics but continued to create fine art and living a busy social life throughout the Chicago area. 

    Pretty dope, if I do say so myself…

    (via ziziwest)

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    Reclaimed Soul Episode 36: David Boykin Trio, Live at Dorchester Projects

    On this installment of Reclaimed Soul, we’ll be digging into Chicago Sounds both old and new.

    We’ll break the cellophane shrinkwrap on a brand new vinyl copy of David Boykin Trio: Live at Dorchester Projects, an album by local jazz musician David Boykin. We’ll hear music from his latest release, recorded after a series of open rehearsals, held at the Dorchester Projects. We’ll also catch up with David, and talk to him about the state of Jazz in Chicago today.

    The Dorchester Projects (in Chicago’s Woodlawn community), was created by artist/urban planner Theaster Gates as a way to activate arts programming in his community. It was also a way for him to share his collections of vinyl records, architecture books, and glass lamp slides, all salvaged from a variety of sources.

    Also, we’ll hear music by Leroy Hutson, and much, much more.

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