Month: March 2021
2014.02.17 William Hooker on Larry Young
Rebroadcast March 29, 2021.
As a young Jazz drummer in the Seventies, improvising drummer William Hooker frequently found himself on the bandstand as part [...]
2017.02.17 Graham Haynes on Roy Haynes at Birdland
Rebroadcast March 22, 2021.
Imagine being present at the moment of creation. Now imagine being one of the creators, inventing new sounds and new rhythms that [...]
A RAM manifestation of Howard Johnson
I want to say this was fall of 1982. I had booked Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition to play at SUNY-Binghamton. The day of the show arrives and the first [...]
2015.05.25 Brandon Ross on Keith Jarrett’s American Quartet
Rebroadcast March 15, 2021.
A band cannot be a great band if it doesn't have its own distinctive sound. The sonorities of the instruments and the writing are [...]
1987.07.13 Andy Rotman and Mitch interview Milford Graves
Here for you is a bonus episode. Since we are remembering Milford Graves, this is an interview that Andy Rotman and I did with him in 1987 on the topic of [...]
2016.02.15 Melvin Gibbs on Lester Bowie
Rebroadcast March 8, 2021.
Melvin Gibbs knows a thing or two about how much freight can be conveyed by a thunderous ensemble moving at full throttle as well as [...]