Author: Rosie
2013.01.14 Billy Cobham on Tony Williams
Rebroadcast December 7, 2020.
Many people think it was Miles Davis who first fused Rock and Jazz. Sorry, folks: Tony Williams got there sooner (and [...]
2011.09.26 Eric Person on McCoy Tyner
Rebroadcast November 30, 2020.
McCoy Tyner was one of the many greats who we lost in this year of Covid-19 but the light his music shines on the music [...]
2019.02.04 Eric Person on Jimmy Lyons
Rebroadcast November 23, 2020.
Say the name "Jimmy Lyons" to lovers of creative music and they will immediately think of Cecil Taylor. The bounty that [...]
2013.08.12 Eric Person on Sonny Rollins
Rebroadcast November 9, 2020.
How lucky are we to have experienced the music of Sonny Rollins, the greatest improviser in the history of recorded music? Uh [...]
2012.05.09 Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso on Creative Music Studio
Rebroadcast September 28, 2020.
Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation. So can Ornette's concept be [...]
2013.05.20 JT Lewis on Don Pullen
We were talking about "The Total Package" as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might [...]
2019.11.11 – Jack DeSalvo on Keith Jarrett
Rebroadcast August 24, 2020.
There's a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can-- study, practice, master every scale [...]
2018.05.15 Brian Charette on George Coleman
Rebroadcast August 17, 2020.
Jazz fans love to argue. Ask a question about any player to any 2 serious listeners and you’ll get a least 3 opinions. [...]
2019.04.01 – Adam Rudolph on Yusef Lateef
Rebroadcast August 10, 2020.
Many Jazz fans discovered the music of Yusef Lateef through his work as a sideman with artists like Charles Mingus and [...]
2018.04.30 Ras Moshe on Dewey Redman
Rebroadcast August 3, 2020.
We have gotten all excited about "Big Data" in recent years, this idea that knowledge can be gleaned from a large pool of info [...]