Author: Rosie
2013.07.01 Leon Gruenbaum on Hermeto Pascoal
Rebroadcast January 18, 2021.
Would it be enough if I simply told you that Miles Davis said that Hermeto Pascoal was, "the most impressive musician in [...]
2011.08.01 Brian Charette on Weather Report with Jaco Pastorius
Rebroadcast Dec. 21, 2020.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #BrianCharette #WeatherReport #EthelSmith #Jaco #JacoPastorius #Jazz #JazzInterview [...]
2011.09.12 Vernon Reid on Weather Report
Rebroadcast on December 14, 2020.
From the outside, Big Ideas seem to emerge in one complete piece. But If you find yourself inside them, either because [...]
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 [...]