On this edition, Michele K-tel #swings into Spring with Duke Ellington, Canadian sax + violin duo Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, BLUR, plus The Mountain Goats get choked out by National Poetry Month.

Playlist 4.30.15

Rahsaan Roland Kirk “It‘s A Grand Night For Swinging” Rip, Rig And Panic/Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno “Cuidad Del Swing” The Best Of Quantic (Death of a Revolution)
Duke Ellington “Swing Baby Swing” Duke´s Anthology, Vol.6 (Rare Recordings)
Mills Brothers “Swing Is The Thing” Mlle Swing & M. Zazou (Chansons Actualites)
Scrawl “Take A Swing” Velvet Hammer
Savages “Hit Me” Silence Yourself
The Mountain Goats “Choked Out” Beat the Champ (Merge)

Blur “I Broadcast” The Magic Whip
Mexrrissey “Ask” Mexico Goes Morrissey
Los Seven Del Swing “Silencio” Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound Of Colombia 1962 – 72 (Soundway)
Algodón Egipcio “Cotorra Del Sol” A Guide to the Birdsong of South America (Rhythm and Roots)
MeNeO “La Licuadora” ZZK Sound Vol. 2

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld “The Rest of Us” Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)
Clarinet Thing “Pulmonary” Cry, Want
Clarinet Factory “5 Steps” (feat. Alan Vitouš and Lenka Dusilová) Worx and Reworx
Ben Goldberg featuring Carla Kihlstedt, Greg Cohen and Myra Melford “Reading” Orphic Machine (The Royal Potato Family)
Kate Tempest “And Now It’s Thursday, Cold Dark Sky” Brand New Ancients
THEESatisfaction “Needs” awE naturalE (Sub Pop)
Linton Kwesi Johnson “Reality Poem” Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology
The Last Poets “Black Rage” Holy Terror
Nina Simone “Baltimore” Baltimore
Mutabaruka Dis Poem The Ultimate Collection
Mount Eerie “Wind’s Dark Poem” Wind’s Poem

Colleen “This Hammer Breaks” Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)