"A new way, a new day...

...and new eyes to see the dawn". So goes the Stephen Stills classic...and it introduces my current state about this blog.

A new season in Ahmet's House brings a new dedication...a new perspective. Our world is sometimes so caught up in "new" that the word takes on a negative connotation. How do we grow, while still retaining the connection to the old, to the past. Our recent trip to Europe caused me to reflect on how America so easily disrespects the past...how we constantly dig it up and rebuild on the graves of our ancestors.

Here in Ahmet's House, the goal is to live in the now...and yet never disconnect with the past. Ahmet and the greats of Atlantic lived for yesterday, today and tomorrow...as the needs of the business clamored for newness, invention, discovery. But the roots held firm...roots of passion, quality, dedication...pain. Sorrow. Overwhelming joy.

This week we start a new season, and a new journey...building and reshaping...hope you come along for the ride. This has begun. It's not happening later...it's happening now! Ahmet's House.

Thanks for reading and for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

 Tony...at The House that Ahmet Built!

Coming Home! A New Season of Ahmet's House to begin June 23rd!

Hello fellow adventurers of good music...Tony and some of the crew at WBKM have just returned from an eight day trek through Europe to help chronicle and enjoy the first four shows from Neil Young and Crazy Horse! Ahmet indeed would be proud, as the band played with a gusto and bravado fitting men half their age. So a little bit of Ahmet was felt and heard of during the days of walks and train rides and airports...from Berlin to the elegant City of Paris...from folks young and old alike.

Tony needs to catch up on some rest...of which there was none while away...and is working on new ideas for a return on Sunday, June 23rd with the first show of Season Six...all the more inspired and certain that this great House must grow and prosper.

Last Saturday evening in Paris...Tony...tired and glad to be heading home!

Aretha to Zeppelin...that's Ahmet's House! 7PM tonight on WBKM

Tonight as we do each Sunday at 7PM ET, we celebrate a life in music...a life that brought us everything from Aretha to Zeppelin...come see what might come our way tonight! It's "Ahmet's House"...Tony honored to guide the way. Only on wbkm.org

Aretha with Arif Mardin and Jerry Wexler

Birthdays: Cher, Jewel

Song List:

That Lucky Old Sun---Ray Charles
Long Time Gone---Crosby, Stills and Nash
River---Joni Mitchell
Epistrophy---John Coltrane/Theolonius Monk
John's Blues---Roy Buchannon
Soul Serenade---King Curtis
Every Little Thing---Yes

Gallows Pole---Led Zeppelin
Off My Back Jack---Max Roach
Stop Breaking Down---The Rolling Stones
Angel Standing By---Jewel

You can listen to tonight's show in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

 Tony...at The House that Ahmet Built!

A Gentle Rain...Enter Ahmet's House

Good evening everyone! It is an unparalleled joy to welcome you this day into this house...Ahmet's House. We celebrate all the music, all the lives, all the years...yesterday, today and tomorrow. Join us! It's good to see you...

Rick Wakeman surrounded!



Birthdays: Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Jack Bruce

Songs:

Roundabout---Yes

Some Other Blues---John Coltrane

Out of the Blue---Roxy Music

I Feel Free---Cream

Up in Sydney's Flat---Bunk Johnson

Over Too Soon---Small Faces

Are You Happy---Iron Butterfly

Joe Turner Blues---Big Joe Turner

Redneck Paradise---Kid Rock

Comin' Home---Delaney and Bonnie and Friends

As always, the podcast is available here http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse05192013.mp3 

You can also listen in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

 Tony...at The House that Ahmet Built!

A Night on the Town in Ahmet's House tonight!

It's Mother's Day 2013 so while Tony is off today and busy taking the mother of his children out on the town...why not kick it into high style and live it up! We will be playing selections from "The Ertegun's New York! Cabaret music from the 1940's to '50s...its still Ahmet's kinda music! We will be back next week with another live show! Enjoy.

As always, the podcast is available here  http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse05122013.mp3 

You can also listen in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci 



Willie! Ray! Neil! It's all here tonight on Ahmet's House! 7PM

Big and bold...impassioned people make the best music...come listen to some of the very best of the Atlantic Records catalog as we showcase it on "Ahmet's House" at 7PM...keeping the work of the legacy artists alive!

Willie, Jerry and Arif! Talk about a dream team...

Birthdays: Willie Nelson, Lou Gramm



Song List:

Ohio---Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Diamonds Made From Rain---Eric Clapton
Find the Cost of Freedom---Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
The Trees---Rush (live)
Against All Odds---Phil Collins
Waiting For a Girl Like You---Foreigner
Busted---Ray CHarles and Willie Nelson
Stay All Night---Willie Nelson
Honeydripper---Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
Day by Day---Jimmy Scott
Key to the Highway---Derek and the Dominos
A Song For You---Leon Russel, Willie Nelson and Ray Charles (live)


As always, the podcast is available here  http://media.blubrry.com/ahmetshouse/paradigms.bz/wbkm/AhmetsHouse05052013.mp3

You can also listen in iTunes (free subscription!) at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ahmets-house/id555391588

Thanks for listening! Your servant of the music, Tony Gallucci

International Jazz Day in Istanbul...April 30, 2013!

It's a great day for Jazz around the globe as the 2nd International Jazz Day is held. This year, it is most fitting that the great people of Turkey host the day in Istanbul...as this connection of Turkey, America and of course the Ertegun Brothers make so much of it so very possible.

UNESCO Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue and Chairman of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz, Herbie Hancock, co-Chair of the day, shown here with Ahmet's House Founder Tony Gallucci

To Ambassador Tan, and all our good friends at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC, we send our best hopes and blessings for a beautiful day.  

Tony, Can Oguz and friend at the Embassy last month