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Tune in on October 10 to WKCR 89.9 FM-NY for 24 hours of Thelonious Sphere Monk’s music in celebration of what would have been his 99th birthday.

Beginning this week, the In All Languages department of WKCR will offer three original shows as a part of its standard programming: Morning Profiles from Sunday, 6:00 AM - 8:-00 AM, Field Trip from Sunday, 11:00 PM until Monday, 12:30 AM, and Coordinated Universal Time (The C.U.T.) from Monday,

"An avatar of creative and progressive improvisation," Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist, violist, and composer Aruán Ortiz has written music for jazz ensembles, orchestras, dance companies, chamber groups, and feature films. His work incorporates influences from contemporary classical music, Cuban-Haitian rhythms, and avant-garde improvisation; and consistently strives to break stylistic musical boundaries. He has been called “the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States” by BET Jazz.

Tune into Afternoon New Music at 3 PM today to hear an exclusive performance and an interview with Momenta Quartet, a NYC based string quartet. The quartet will perform Dutilleux's "Ainsi La Nuit" and Christopher Stark's "Winter Music". This will air a day before Momenta Festival II, the quartet's annual, democratically-curated, four part series, taking place at Tenri, NYC through September 28 and October 2.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Monday, September 26h, at 4:00 PM for an exclusive interview and live set with drummer and composer Ches Smith in anticipation of his The Stone residency taking place September 27 to October 2. The hour-long program will feature Smith playing a solo set in-studio at WKCR on vibraphones and electronics, as well as an interview where he will discuss the details of his The Stone residency.

Saxophonist Abraham Mennen and bassist Brandon Lopez will perform a live set on Afternoon New Music at 5:00 PM.

Abraham Mennen will be performing this Thursday, September 29th, at 8:00 PM at Manhattan Inn, Williamsburg. He will be joined by Daniel Carter on winds, Luke Stewart on bass and Dan Kurfirst on drums and percussion.

Tune in to hear an exclusive in-studio interview with Marina Rosenfeld starting at 3:0 PM. She will be performing with the great Morton Subotnick at 8:00 PM on Tuesday, September 27th at ISSUE Project Room.

Join WKCR Friday, September 23 as we conduct our annual all-day tribute to John Coltrane on the 90th 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.

Tune in to the Musician’s Show this Wednesday, September 21 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM to hear alto saxophonist Braxton Cook discuss his music, influences, experiences, projects, upcoming gigs and more. A D.C. native, Cook grew up listening to Motown and jazz records, imbuing his playing with an R&B/ Soul sound that remains today. After playing in the 2009 Grammy Jazz Ensemble, Cook enrolled in Georgetown University to study English. He ultimately transferred to Juilliard to pursue music and graduated from there in 2015, having debuted his EP, Sketch, the previous year.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3 pm on Monday, September 12 for an exclusive in-studio interview with composer/multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp. The 80-minute program will discuss Sharp's new release Tranzience, available now on New World Records, as well as Vivarium, his upcoming concert at Roulette this Thursday, September 15th at 8 pm.

Tune in to WKCR at 9:00 PM tomorrow on Thursday, September 8 for an exclusive in-studio interview with Leila Bordreuil. The program will include an interview with Bordreuil, where she will talk about her upcoming ISSUE Residency, including her new piece, "Piece for Cello and Double Bass Ensemble", which will debut this Saturday at 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn. Listen to hear Bordreuil talk about her obsession with spatialization and over-amplification, subjectivity in her art, collaborating with Michael Foster, Sean Ali, Brandon Lopez & Joanna Mattrey, and many more.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, September 6 for an exclusive in-studio interview with Travis LaPlante, leader and composer of the tenor sax quartet Battle Trance. The program will include a fifteen-minute interview with LaPlante about the inception of Battle Trance and the painstaking process of composing and recording their new album, "Blade of Love." WKCR will also be playing LaPlante's entire personal compositional journey, "Blade of Love."

Beginning August 27 at 12:00AM, WKCR will dedicate three whole days to the music of Lester Young and Charlie Parker. The 27th marks the birthday of The President, Lester Young, and the 29th, Bird's. On August 28th we will gradually shift from one legendary saxophonist to the next.

Beginning at 6:00 PM this evening, WKCR will dedicate thirty continuous hours to airing some of the thousands of jazz sessions recorded over more than half a century by one of the best recording engineers the world has ever known: Rudy Van Gelder.

For the next 24 hours, WKCR will be honoring the life and accomplishments of the great vibraphone and marimba player Bobby Hutcherson, who passed away Monday, August 15 at the age of 75. All regular programming will be pre-empted beginning Tuesday at 12:00 PM and lasting until 3:00 PM on Wednesday.

Spread the word about the original FM! WKCR has new 75th anniversary shirts available online at https://www.booster.com/wkcr75 to celebrate all that has followed our first official broadcast on February 24th, 1941. All proceeds will go toward keeping the station on air and commercial-free. Stay tuned for more 75th anniversary offerings and events to come!

Tune into WKCR 89.9 FM, at 7 pm on Aug 14^th to hear IndoSoul, a band of musicians from diverse musical backgrounds - Vikram Vivekanand on the guitar, Naveen Napier on the bass, Ramkumar Kanakarajan on drums, Sumesh Narayanan on the mridangam and percussion, and Karthick Iyer on violin and vocals.

Today's Jazz 'til Dawn and Jazz Profiles programs will be dedicated to Connie Crothers, who passed away on Saturday, August 13. Join us in remembering Crothers' inspiring influence as a pianist, improviser, and teacher with nine hours of only her music from 1:00 AM to 5:00 AM and from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM at WKCR 89.9FM and www.wkcr.org.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music on Monday, August 8 for an interview with composer and percussionist Lukas Ligeti. This interview is in anticipation of an upcoming survey concert that will highlight his acoustic compositions from 1988 to 2016 and the lasting influence of the Bauhaus movement on the artist’s creative process. The concert is scheduled to take place at National Sawdust, Brooklyn on August 14.

Tune in to Live Constructions this Sunday evening at 10:00 PM to hear a live set by drummer Jeremy Carlstedt and saxophonist Brian Lee Settles. Following the forty-minute set, the duo will talk about their twenty-five-year history of playing together and the teachers who have inspired them throughout their lives as musicians.

Tune into In All Languages this Sunday to hear Oualid Khelifi and El Foukr R'Assembly, who are on tour from Algeria and will join host David Ellenbogen at WKCR for a live performance.

This Thursday, August 4th, join WKCR as we celebrate the official 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 beginning at midnight. The broadcast will follow up our celebration of Armstrong’s chosen birthday on July 4th. Listen at WKCR 89.9FM or online at www.wkcr.org.

Tune in tonight to Som do Brasil at 11:00 PM as we pay tribute to Edgar de Almeida. Joining us in the studio will be Joanna Nova York. She worked close with Edgar and together they won awards for their projects. Also, Túlio Araujo will join us to talk about his new projects and music.

Tune into Studio A tonight to hear an interview with Anais Mitchell, the writer of "Hadestown," a musical retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice playing at the New York Theater Workshop through July 31st. We also talk with Nabiyah Be, who plays Eurydice in the production. Missed the show? You can listen to the interview here.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Monday, July 25th at 3 pm for an exclusive in-studio interview with guitarist Marc Ribot. The 30-minute program will feature Ribot discussing his group The Young Philadelphians and their upcoming album Live in Tokyo, which will be released July 29th on Yellowbird. Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians will also be performing at The Bowery Ballroom this Thursday, July 28th at 9 pm. They will be supported by Inyang Bassey featuring Binky Griptite (Dap Kings).

Tune in to Som do Brasil at 11:00 PM on Wednesday, July 13 to hear from Cyro Baptista live in the studio. The show will feature musical selections and insights from Baptista, who has established himself as one of the country's premier percussionists since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country, Brazil. Cyro has recorded and toured with some of music’s most popular names, and his mastery of Brazilian percussion, as well as the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown.

Beginning at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, July 13, WKCR will dedicate nine hours of programming to the music and influence of visionary saxophonist, singer, and composer Albert Ayler in honor of his eightieth birthday anniversary. The birthday broadcast will culminate in a special edition of The Musician's Show from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM hosted by Jeff Lederer, who will be joined in the studio by Ayler's former bassist, Steve Tintweiss. Together they will present Ayler's music along with music that he inspired and some previously unreleased material.