HEAR TODAY REVISITING THE BEATNIK YEARS WITH HAL WILLNER.Byline: Fred Shuster Music Critic Hal Willner remains a music fan in a business that seems to hatch fewer of them every year. During the last 25 years, the producer and musicologist mu·si·col·o·gy n. The historical and scientific study of music. mu  si·co·log has stage-managed imaginative tributes to Kurt Weill, Italian film composer Nino Rota, jazz greats Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk, even Edgar Allan Poe. To pay the bills, he's music supervisor of ``Saturday Night Live This article is about the American television series. For the show related to Big Brother (UK), see Saturday Night Live (UK). Saturday Night Live (SNL .'' Willner's projects in the past year alone include the Leonard Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. tribute ``I'm Your Man'' and the ``Rogue's Gallery'' set of spicy sea chanteys, sung by Bono, Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave and more. Hot off the press is ``Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music The Anthology of American Folk Music is a compilation of several dozen folk and country music recordings that were released as 78 rpm records in the 1920s and 1930s. The compilation was originally released in 1952 as a collection of six LPs. Revisited'' (Shout! Factory; $59.98), a two-CD/two-DVD box that celebrates beatnik music archivist ARCHIVIST. One to whose care the archives have been confided. Smith's influential ``Anthology of American Folk Music.'' That 1952 six-record set of old rural songs helped create the repertoire of the folk revival of the '50s and '60s. Included is New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Dolls singer David Johansen covering ``Old Dog Blue.'' We caught up with Willner, 49, at his home in New York. Q: How did you get so deeply into music? A: I loved it from when I was a kid. I saw the Beatles when I was 8 and my mom took me to see Cream at the Electric Factory when I was 12; those had a big effect. At 15, I was listening nonstop to this incredibly adventurous radio station out of Philadelphia that played the best of everything: jazz, underground rock, blues, folk, r&b. Music is the thing I always related to. I could never get enough of reading everything about it, buying the albums and studying the credits. I'm the same way today, but I get to make a living listening to music and thinking about it. Q: How did you get started in these kinds of conceptual projects? A: I just wanted to make records I wanted to hear, with no more planning than that. I always thought something might develop from it. The first one was the Rota thing (``Amarcord Nino Rota'') in 1981, where I only knew for sure I wanted to hear Carla Bley do something with ``8 1/2.'' A lot of the projects were small. I learned to be open to anything, but to always keep the framework in mind. Here's a sample of other new releases in stores this week: The once-bootlegged ``Live at the Fillmore East'' (Reprise re·prise n. 1. Music a. A repetition of a phrase or verse. b. A return to an original theme. 2. A recurrence or resumption of an action. tr.v. ; $18.98) has Neil Young and the original Crazy Horse on stage in 1970. Luis Miguel sings Christmas oldies Oldies is a generic term commonly used to describe a radio format that usually concentrates on Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s. Oldies are typically from R&B, pop and rock music genres. in ``Navidades Luis Miguel'' (Warner Music Latina; $18.98). ``9'' (Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) .; $18.98) is the second album from Irish troubadour troubadour One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy. Damien Rice. The Game celebrates 'hood life in the track ``Compton'' from ``Doctor's Advocate'' (Interscope; $13.98). Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris' summer show at Gibson Amphitheatre is brought out as the CD/DVD combo ``Real Live Roadrunning'' (Warner Bros.; $29.98). Also in stores ``The Pick of Destiny,'' Tenacious D (Sony; $18.98) ``Shout! The Mod Musical,'' soundtrack (Rhino; $18.98) ``So Divided,'' And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (Interscope; $10.99) ``The Singles,'' The Clash (Sony; $79.98) ``Pretty Little Stranger,'' Joan Osborne (Vanguard; $18.98) ``An Other Cup,'' Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (Atlantic; $18.98) ``A Beautiful Lie,'' 30 Seconds to Mars (Virgin; $18.98) ``Konvicted,'' Akon (Universal; $13.98) ``Bianca Ryan,'' Bianca Ryan (Sony; $18.98) ``Reasons Why: The Very Best,'' Nickel Creek (Sugar Hill; $18.98) ``At San Quentin (Legacy Edition),'' Johnny Cash (Sony; $39.98) ``Casino Royale,'' soundtrack (Sony; $18.98) ``Ys,'' Joanna Newsom (Drag City; $17.98) ``Greatest Hits,'' Staind (Atlantic; $18.98) ``Ruby's Torch,'' Nanci Griffith (Rounder; $17.98) ``Yo Canto can·to n. pl. can·tos One of the principal divisions of a long poem. [Italian, from Latin cantus, song; see canticle. ,'' Laura Pausini (Warner Music Latina; $17.98) CAPTION(S): photo Photo: DAVID JOHANSEN Ethan Miller/Getty Images |
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