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Phil Woods, the influential alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, died this afternoon at the age of 83. Born November 2, 1931, Woods rose to prominence with the 1950s bebop scene, and went on to record a vast discography as both a bandleader and sideman. His collaborators include Thelonius Monk, Quincy Jones, Bill Evans, and Oliver Nelson, to name a few. His work spanned generations and crossed genres, with consistent releases throughout the 20th century and performances up until his death.

Tune in Sept 27^th to Raag Aur Taal at 7 pm (EST) to listen to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and Anurag Harsh.

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was for decades one of the world’s most respected singers of Indian classical music. As an artist in the Hindustani (North Indian) musical tradition, Pandit Joshi was renowned as a master of the khayal, a genre of vocal concert music. He was known to mesmerize audiences with his renditions of bhajans (devotional songs) and ragas.

Sid Gribetz presents a five hour radio special celebrating the career of trumpeter and vocalist Hot Lips Page on “Jazz Profiles” on WKCR this Sunday September 27 from 2-7 PM.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music today to hear Jeffrey Young, Erin Rogers, and Ashley Tata speak about their upcoming opera, This Takes Place Close By! Conceived in response to Sandy, Katrina and other devastating storms, the work explores the reactions of several individuals that are affected by an urban storm in drastically different ways.

On Wednesday, September 23rd, WKCR will conduct its annual all-day tribute to John Coltrane on the 89th anniversary of his birth. Born on September 23, 1926 in North Carolina, Coltrane is celebrated to this day for his innovative work on alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones, as well as his enormous contributions to the genres of bebop, hard bop, and free and avant-garde jazz. From the late 1940s to the mid-late 1950s, Coltrane collaborated with numerous jazz titans, performing as a sideman with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, among others.

WKCR is proud to welcome the maestro Pt. Krishna Bhatt to the studio. We look forward to inquiring about his studies with the legends of this music: Nikhil Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan; associations with Terry Riley, Zakir Hussein and Kronos Quartet and his upcoming performance at the Rubin Museum with Anindo Chatterjee.

Tune this Wednesday evening to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, with pianist Orrin Evans. Born in Trenton, NJ in 1976, and raised in Philadelphia, Evans studied music under the tutelage of Kenny Barron. He has worked alongside Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson, and more recently with Christian McBride. Since the mid-90s, Evans has recorded an extensive discography, with numerous releases as both leader and sideman.

In 1957, conductor and musicologist Newell Jenkins founded the Clarion Music Society. Based in New York, the Clarion Society has remained the city's premiere period-instrument ensemble, presenting hundreds of rare and rediscovered compositions throughout its long history. Recently, current Artistic Director Steven Fox has expanded the group's work as a period-instrument group, with a repertoire from Rossi through Aaron Copland.

Tune in Tuesday morning at 11am for Cereal Music and Tuesday evening at 9pm for Late City Edition to hear an interview with the coordinators and artists of the upcoming 8th Annual Circle Wind Concert on September 11th. Programmer Fernanda Douglas speaks with Andrew Anderson, the father of Taylor Anderson, an American teacher who was lost in the tsunami and to whom this year's concert is dedicated; Mike Shirota, director of Japan Choral Harmony; Lalala Teramoto, daughter of Tateo Teramoto, concert producer from Ishinomaki, Japan; and Gregory Singer, director of the Manhattan Symphonie.

This Tuesday on Honky Tonkin’ we will have a special live performance by the Maybelles featuring Jan Bell on guitar and vocals, Rima Fand on violin, and Tina Lama on bass. Tune in to listen to this Brooklyn-based folk and country music trio. Jan Bell is also the founder and artistic director of the First Brooklyn Americana Music Festival taking place on the 25th through 27th of this month.

Tune in to Live Constructions this Sunday, September 6th, at 10pm to hear a live set and interview with the Brooklyn band Causings. Causings is made up of several players from the NYC free improv scene: John Welsh, KT Pipal, Vanessa Haddad, James Krivchenia, and Derek Baron . The band in the midst of a US/Canada tour, and they will drop by our studio to play a set of improvised experimental music. Listen!

Artist Bio:

causings is a family band

portraits and landscapes

slide projectors and cell phones

slow and steady

Monteverdi composed three landmark operas that have become the subject of great interest: L'Orfeo; Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria; and L'incoronazione di Poppea. With the rise of the early music movement, these operas have been recorded in "historically informed" performances. While vital, these recordings simultaneously overshadow earlier performances that helped spark interest in this movement in the first place.

Johannes Brahms's German Requiem is one of the most beloved choral works of all time. In the composer's magnum opus, he shuns typical Latin texts and instead opts for German Lutheran texts free of eschatological redemption. The result is what Brahms termed a "human requiem," a meditation of man's time on earth; however, what many do not know about the Deutsches Requiem is that Brahms also composed a piano duet of the entire work for four hands, which has also been used in chamber versions with chorus.

Tune in on Tuesday, September 1st, at 9:30 pm to hear an interview with Stanley Nelson, an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, and the writer, producer, and director of the film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. In this interview, Nelson talks with WKCR programmer Danielle Smith about the complicated nature of the history of the Black Panther Party, the lack of education surrounding them, and the power a youth movement can have. The film will premier at the Film Forum on September 2nd.

Tune in Tuesday, September 1st, and Thursday, September 3rd, at 9 pm to hear the latest from Conversations on the Leading Edge, a collaboration between the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity and WKCR's Late City Edition. In this conversation, Meredith Smith talks with Dr. Peter Coleman about Dynamical Systems Theory, a mathematical approach to sustaining peace and resolving conflict. Dr.

Coming up this Monday from 6pm to 9pm EDT on WKCR, vibraphonist/composer Bill Ware and host Mitch Goldman put Horace Silver in Deep Focus. Hard-to-find radio broadcasts from the WKCR archives help them shed new light on this influential musical thinker.

Where on your dial will you ever find this other than 89.9FM or WKCR.org? Nowhere, that's where!

Well renowned santoor player, Rahul Sharma, famous Afghan rubab player Homayun Sakhi and talented tabla player Salar Nader came together for a concert performance at Carnegie Hall presented by Robert Browning Associates.

Tonight Wednesday August 26, 2015 at 11pm join Jassvan de Lima as he interviews THE ZÉ LUIS QUARTET just back from Cuba after working with over one hundred incredibly talented artists with their current project TRADE WINDS.

The Zé Luis Quartet fronted by sax and flute player Zé Luis, whose resume includes performing with Brazilian greats such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tania Maria and Bebel Gilberto, propels art to the future.

Beginning Thursday, August 27, WKCR will have a four-day festival dedicated to the music of tenor saxophonist Lester "Prez" Young (b. August 27, 1909; d. March 15, 1959), and alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker (b. August 29, 1920; d. March 12, 1955). The 27th marks Prez's birthday, and the 29th, Bird's. On Friday, August 28th we will play both Prez and Bird interchangeably throughout the day.

Bassist / producer Melvin Gibbs puts Ornette Coleman in Deep Focus on Jazz Alternatives with Mitch Goldman tonight from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM and wkcr.org.

Tune in Thursday, August 13th, to hear an interview with James C. Strausse, the writer and director of the film People Places Things, and the star of the film, Jemaine Clement. The film follows a newly single graphic novel artist who is attempting to balance his twin daughters, students, and his love life. Strausse and Clement talk with WKCR programmer Chaim Lazaros about the character of the film, the artistic procress, the role illustrations play in the movie, and what audiences can learn from the film.

Tune in to Late City Edition at 9 pm on Thursday, August 13th, to hear Hubert Sauper, the Academy Award-nominated director of Darwin's Nightmare, discuss his latest documentary, We Come As Friends. In We Come As Friends, Sauper travels around the Sudan in a self-built airplane showing his audience glimpes into the present day colonization taking place. In this interview, Sauper talks with WKCR programmer Danielle Smith about the process of making the film, his artistic take on documentaries, and the troubling situation in Sudan right now.

Tune in Monday, August 10th, and Tuesday, August 11th, to hear the latest from Conversations on the Leading Edge, a collaboration between the Earth Institute's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity and WKCR's Late City Edition.

This Sunday's edition of Jazz Profiles will feature Japanese composer and arranger, Toshiko Akiyoshi, a 14 time Grammy nominee. Born in 1929, Akiyoshi became interested in the piano at age six; by the time her family had moved back to Japan at the end of World War II, having emigrated to China before Toshiko was born, she had developed a real love for music. She soon began playing piano professionally, which eventually led to her discovery by pianist Oscar Peterson in 1952 during a Norman Granz Jazz at the Philharmonic tour of Japan.

On Tuesday evening, August 11th, the Mostly Mozart Festival presents the North American stage premiere of George Benjamin's opera Written On Skin. Universally hailed as a modern masterpiece, the work now arrives in New York with Barbara Hannigan, the originator of its principal role. In recent years, Ms. Hannigan has distinguished herself as one of the most adventurous sopranos of her generation through the 80 world premieres in which she has performed.

Tune in at 9 pm on Friday, August 7th, to hear an interview with Tom Surgal, the writer and the director of the documentary, Fire Music. Fire Music is a full-length documentary about the Free Jazz Revolution in New York City–a subject which is often ignored when people discuss jazz. Fire Music is currently hosting a kickstarter campaign to help raise the necessary funds for completing this documentary. In this interview, Tom Surgal talks with WKCR programmer Gabe Ibagon about the genre of free jazz, the process of making the documentary, and his inspiration for this film.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Monday, August 3rd, from 3-6PM to hear an interview with Matt Motel of the duo Talibam!. He will stop by to talk about the free jazz/experimental group and their upcoming performance at the Sound + Vision Festival on Monday night. Listen!

Amir ElSaffar on In All Languages --