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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 [...]
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 [...]
July 8, 2019 – Pheeroan akLaff on Milford Graves
Rebroadcast March 1, 2021.
"A thought exercise: the conventional idea is that the music moves forward with the harmonic innovations of an instrumentalist [...]
2019.03.18 Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran on Jaki Byard and Nina Simone
Rebroadcast February 22, 2021.
Rebroadcast July 13, 2020.
If you are looking for new ways to think about and hear this music, pay attention to what [...]
2013.05.06 Brian Charette on Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, Roy Haynes
Rebroadcast February 15, 2021.
Starting at midnight tonight, a 24-hour memorial to Chick Corea on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org (all day Monday [...]
2015.08.31 Bill Ware on Horace Silver
Rebroadcast February 8, 2021.
Vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus in this rebroadcast from 2015. [...]
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 [...]