Melvin Gibbs

2024.08.19 Melvin Gibbs on Sun Ra

Tonight (8/19) bassist/composer Melvin Gibbs joins host Mitch Goldman for a Deep Focus on Sun Ra with unheard rarities from the WKCR archives.  [...]

2018.12.10 Melvin Gibbs on the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Rebroadcast January 3, 2022. Melvin Gibbs is hearing things that I am not hearing yet. I know this from the choices he makes as a bassist, his work as a [...]

2013.11.04 Melvin Gibbs on Ronald Shannon Jackson

Rebroadcast August 16, 2021. This is part 2 of the rebroadcasts of the Ronald Shannon Jackson memorial broadcasts from 2013.  Melvin Gibbs opens up about [...]

Ronald Shannon Jackson

Dark day. Just got word that Ronald Shannon Jackson passed this morning. I was 19 when I first heard his music. No one had ever told me that music could do [...]
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