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Tune in all day today for our 24hr Louie Armstrong Birthday Broadcast. This is Birthday Broadcast 2 of 2 for Louis, who is known to have been born on August 4, 1901 despite his claim to have been born on July 4, 1900. To honor Satchmo, we celebrate both.
Tune in to this week's Musician's Show from 6-9pm ET on Wednesday July 25th as we welcome Sasha Berliner, a musician, composer, producer, and band leader from San Francisco, CA.
Tune in all day this Wednesday, July 4th as we celebrate the chosen birthday of one of the foundational figures of jazz, trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong. We will be preempting all regular programming as we honor Pops with 24 hours of swing.
Tune in Tomorrow, Tuesday June 5th at 9pm for Arts and Answers for an interview with Efrem Zelony-Mindell, curator of This Is Not Here: RE 21 Art Show at the Pfizer building at 630 Flushing Ave. The installation explores themes of sensuality, and craft.
Tune in to Nueva Cancion this Wednesday May 23, from 10-11pm ET to listen to a live set and interview from the Brooklyn-based Son Jarocho group, Radio Jarocho!
We regret to inform our listeners that there will be a shutdown of FM transmissions on Tuesday, May 15th from Midnight to about 4AM due to some necessary maintenance work. We are committed to providing our listeners with the best quality broadcasting and will be back on air shortly!
Join WKCR Wednesday, April 25, 2018 for our 24-hour Ella Fitzgerald birthday broadcast. One of the most influential jazz vocalists of the last century, Fitzgerald won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.
On Sunday, April 22nd 2018 at 12:00 AM, WKCR will celebrate the birth of one of the great innovators of American music, bassist and composer Charles Mingus. He was able to accomplish what so many of today's musicians strive for: his music was always original, transcending genre boundaries yet always remaining deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. Early in his career, he performed with such greats as Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, and Lionel Hampton.
For the remainder of April, the first half hour of all weekday Arts Programming will be devoted to playing WKCR's archival recordings of Columbia's 1968 protests to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary. Tune in! More anniversary coverage to come!
Tune in to Late City Edition this Thursday, April 12th at 9:00 pm for a special interview marking the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protests at Columbia University. These protests were a response to the Vietnam War and the building of a gym by Columbia in Morningside Park. While Columbia students love to discuss institutional lore from the history of the swim requirement to the Manhattan Project's laboratory in Pupin, most students are still unaware of the protests that took place during 1968.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music show this Monday April 9th from 3-4pm as we welcome drummer and composer, Tomas Fujiwara, who will share compositions and discuss his music ahead of his week-long Stone Residency from April 10-14.
Tune in to WKCR on Friday, April 7 in celebrating the life and work of virtuoso jazz vocalist Billie Holiday with our annual 24-hour birthday broadcast.
Tune into Deep Focus on Monday, April 2nd, from 6-9 pm ET for a special conversation with Micah Gaugh on Ronald Shannon Jackson. Host Mitch Goldman writes: "I love it when I go to a gig and I see that Micah Gaugh is going to be playing. It means it is certain that something unexpected is going to happen. And Micah surprised me with his selection of a subject for Deep Focus: Ronald Shannon Jackson. I was 19 years old and already a die hard music fan but I had no idea what music could do until I heard Shannon's band, The Decoding Society.
Tune into the Musician's Show this Wednesday, March 14th from 6-9 pm ET as we welcome vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Nicole Zuraitis.
Tune in tomorrow, March 8th, as WKCR celebrates International Women’s Day with programming featuring women/femme artists, musicians, and composers. From Som do Brasil, to Out to Lunch, to Late City Edition and the African Show, your favorite programs will be centering the voices of women and Femmes.
Let us know which of your favorite femme musicians or femme-fronted groups you would be excited to hear!
Happy birthday, Ornette Coleman! Join WKCR as we honor Ornette Coleman by playing 24 hours of his music from all day Friday, March 9, 2018 from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm ET. Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. Born and raised in Fort Worth, TX, he was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of a 1961 album.
Tune in on Monday, March 12 from 6-9pm ET for the second installment of our special four-part series. Tyran Grillo of the Between Sound and Space blog (www.ecmreviews.com) will once again join host Andrew Castillo to explore the 1980’s catalogue of ECM Records.
What do you need to make great music? Chops? Theory? Encyclopedic knowledge of the music? Yeah, that too, but if you don’t have curiosity, a willingness to engage with people, a giving heart, who is going to want to hear what you have to say? Through sixty years of fusing traditions with experimentation, that was always the message from Roswell Rudd and his trombone. Roswell passed away in December at the age of 82. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who was one of Roswell’s musical partners, takes this message to heart.
As we finish up our 2k18 every-so-annual fundraiser we would like to remind our listeners to keep donating online! It has been a heart-warming experience spending a week picking up phones and hearing about all the many reasons listeners decide to donate to WKCR. Make a donation today and tell us what you love about WKCR: is a particular show a personal or family ritual? do you have a favorite programmer? do you wish you could hear more of a particular artist or style of music?
Tune into the Moonshine Show this Sunday, March 4th at 10:00 am ET to catch an interview and live set with Damn Tall Buildings. Hailed by The Boston Globe as “the Carter Family for the Millennial generation”, Damn Tall Buildings is a four-piece bluegrass outfit from Brooklyn. Originally street performers, the group has shaped their own sound from the American folk lexicon and since brought it from streets to stages across the US.
We are well into day 3 of our 2k18 every-so-annual fundraiser! As a non-commercial radio station, our commitment to alternative programming relies on the support of our dedicated listeners. We don't have a fundraiser every year, only when we have to. Help us reach our goal so we can stop talking about how great we are and why you should give us money and get back to the MUSIC!
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