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Tuesday, April 7th, marks the 100th birthday anniversary of the one and only Billie Holiday. We'll be celebrating this milestone with a weeklong centennial broadcast in Lady Day’s honor, featuring her entire 1933-1959 discography, as well as on-air interviews with musicians and scholars. WKCR has a precedent of commemorating Holiday and her incredibly important contributions to vocal jazz, jazz as a whole, and Black music in our annual birthday broadcast schedule and in a special 360-hour Billie Holiday Festival that aired in 2005.

Revolutionary French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez turns 90 years old on March 26th, 2015. In celebration of Boulez's 90th birthday, WKCR will be dedicating all Classical Department programming on Wednesday, March 25th and Thursday, March 26th to this renowned musician's compositions and performances.

Though largely overshadowed by Henry Purcell, John Blow was one of England's most important composers of the Baroque era. The choirmaster of St. Paul's Cathedral, Blow is perhaps best known for his masque Venus & Adonis, a landmark work that greatly influenced Purcell's own Dido & Aeneas.

Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by Rudresh Mahanthappa, an alto saxophonist and composer who masterfully and inventively fuses jazz with Carnatic music. He has been named saxophonist of the year multiple times in Downbeat’s International Critics Polls, Jazztimes’ Critics Polls and by the Jazz Journalists’ Association, and he is the recipient of a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.

Join us as we honor the life and work of Lew Soloff, who passed away on Sunday, March 8^th at the age of 71. We will preempt regular jazz programming on March 12th.

Tonight's Musician Show, Wednesday 6-9PM, will feature guest host Michele Rosewoman.

Music lovers in New York and around the world- Tune in to WKCR 89.9 FM-NY at 7PM, Sunday March 8. Samarth Nagarkar has been invited as a guest to a special show, Raag Aur Taal, on the radio channel. An interview in which he will be speaking of his musical journey so far and sharing great music of legendary masters who have influenced his musical growth.

Cornetist, pianist, and composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke was one of the great musical innovators to emerge in the 1920s. One of jazz’s earliest soloists, he is of enduring importance to the dynamic history of jazz. This Monday, WKCR will dedicate 24 hours of programming to Bix in honor of his 112th birthday anniversary. Young Bix taught himself to play cornet, listening to his brother’s Victrola phonograph and records of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

Tune in to WKCR as we dedicate a full day of programming to the celebration of the 85th birthday of Ornette Coleman! Ornette Coleman is and has been pursuing the untouched horizons in music since the beginning of his career. Emerging from the Texas blues tradition (all of his music has the gutbucket wail of the blues in there somewhere), Ornette took L.A. and then New York City by storm with his visionary quartet in the late 1950s. His revolutionary concept placed melody, not harmony, at the center of improvisation. That's the key to really hearing Ornette--it's all in the melodies.

Join us in a conversation with Christian Wolff, Robyn Schulkowsky, and Joey Baron
as they discuss their upcoming concert of Wolff’s music celebrating his 80th birthday
at Roulette. Although perhaps best known for his work with the New York school of
the 1950s, where he composed alongside the likes of John Cage, Morten Feldman
and Earle Brown, Wolff’s music has transcended traditional musical boundaries to
become at once timeless, relevant, political, and, above all else, human. Listen to the

Join us from 2 to 7pm Sunday, March 8 for an in-depth profile on pianist Herman Chittison, Hosted by Charles Iselin. Though he never achieved widespread fame, Chittison was a unique and masterful pianist of the Swing era, famed for his talent as a vocal accompanist. A native of Kentucky, born in 1908, Chittison had his first break as a musician when he joined Zack Whyte’s Band, but his career took a significant leap when he joined Willie Lewis on his 1934 tour of Europe.

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Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by drummer, composer, arranger, and educator Curtis Nowosad. A Winnipeg native, Nowosad currently resides in New York City, and has performed at some of the city's best venues, including Smalls, Smoke, and Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, as well as jazz festivals in Canada, including Ottawa Jazz Festival and the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.

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Join us as we honor the life and work of Clark Terry, who passed away on Saturday, February 21st at the age of 94. With a career that spans more than 70 years, Clark Terry was an influential trumpeter, flugelhornist, educator, composer, writer, instrument designer, and NEA jazz master. We will preempt regular programming from 3:00pm today until 3:00pm Tuesday.

Tune in this Sunday Night, February 22nd to a very special "In All Languages," from 11pm to 2am. Robert Browning, New York City's most prolific producer of World Music events will share his personal recordings, highlights from his concerts from over the last 30 years.

The story of Armida has fascinated artists since the sixteenth century. From Lully to Judith Weir, composers are continually inspired by the love affair between the Saracen sorceress and the Crusader knight, Rinaldo. Using Haydn's Armida (in the Harnoncourt recording with Cecilia Bartoli, Christoph Prégardien, and Patricia Petibon) as a focal point, Saturday night's program will be an exploration of the various musical representations of the fantastical story. Stepan Atamian hosts.

Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by trumpeter, composer, and arranger Freddie Hendrix. Hendrix is an exciting player with a powerful sound.. Equally at home as a leader, soloist, and section player, Hendrix has performed in an extensive and varied list of engagements from the Count Basie Orchestra to backing Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder.

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Don't forget to tune in to The Musician's Show and The Firing Lion tonight!

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Kiran Ahluwalia, a powerful and elegant singer/composer with roots in Hindustani Music and Ghazal, joins us at WKCR for Raag Aur Taal to share her new album "Sanata : Stillness." Her CD Release Concert is Febuary 21st at Roulette in Brooklyn.

Tune in to Raag Aur Taal: 7-9PM 89.9 FM-NY.

Tune in to the In All Languages show, Sunday February 15th from 11pm to 2am to explore the sounds of continental Southeast Asia. From the harp music of Burma to the zithers of Vietnam, we will present the music of the Indochinese Peninsula with its various specificities and instruments.

Tune in as we bring you four Columbia basketball games this Valentine's Day weekend! First, the men visit Harvard tonight. Coverage begins at 5:45 p.m. You can listen to the broadcasts of the women's game against Harvard beginning at 7 p.m. on the Real Audio stream. The women's game can also be heard on the MP3 stream at the conclusion of the men's broadcast. Coverage of both games against Dartmouth begins at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday evening. You can hear the men's game at 89.9 FM or the MP3 stream, while the women's game will stream on the Real Audio stream.

Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by organist Jared Gold. Jared Gold has become on the top organists around New York City. He has played with guitarists John Abercrombie, Ed Cherry, Jimmy Ponder, saxaphonists Oliver Lake, Ralph Bowen, Don Braden, and drummers Adam Nussbaum, Ralph Peterson, and Tony Reedus, among many others. He has been guitarist Dave Stryker’s organist of choice since 2004 and plays on Stryker’s latest release, Eight Track.

Holiday or not, Phil Schaap will be on-air for Out To Lunch for his annual Presidential Address Broadcast (that would be by Lester Young). Tune in from noon – 3pm ET on Monday, February 16^th to hear this special broadcast!

Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and educator Josh Lawrence and drummer Anwar Marshall. Lawrence and Marshall are both graduates of the music program at UArts and are regular members of the Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band, which features some of the best soloists from New York and Philadelphia.