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Join WKCR as we celebrate the birthday of Bix Beiderbecke from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM on Friday, March 10, 2017. Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 - August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist and composer. With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on “Singin’ the Blues” and “I’m Coming, Virginia” (both 1927) particularly exemplified his unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation.

Happy birthday, Ornette Coleman! Join WKCR as we honor Ornette Coleman by playing 24 hours of his music from all day Thursday, March 9, 2017 from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM. 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 to the Musician's Show today, March 8, from 6-9 pm EST for an interview with singer-songwriter Nadia Washington. Nadia hails from Dallas, Texas, and her vocals blend Jazz, Soul, R&B, and World Music. She has performed with esteemed artists including Esperanza Spalding, Lalah Hathaway and George Duke. Since the release of her EP singles, Nadia has toured around Europe, including in Russia and Siberia. Recently, Nadia worked as a background singer and songwriter for Dianne Reeves’ 2014 album “Beautiful Life,” which received a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocals in 2014.

Tune in to Live Constructions, Sunday, March 5 from 10:00-11:00 PM EST for a live set and interview with vocalist and percussionist Anaïs Maviel, who is joining us on WKCR for the second time this year. Maviel is a New York-based improviser, composer, and performer who invokes her French and Haitian origins in traditional and experimental forms. As a scholar, Maviel strives to interweave art, life, and activism as part of her musical practice, and uses her musical production as a platform to continue her research on afrocentric music as alternative politics.

Tune in to Studio A this Sunday, March 5 from 9:00-10:00 PM EST for a live reading and interview with poet JP Howard. Howard, a Cave Canem graduate fellow, is the author of SAY/MIRROR, a debut poetry collection published by The Operating System (2016, 2nd expanded ed and 2015, 1st ed) and a chaplet "bury your love poems here" (Belladonna Collaborative*, 2015). SAY/MIRROR was a 2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the Lesbian Poetry Category.

Tune in to the Musician’s Show Wednesday, March 1 from 6:00-9:00 PM EST for an interview with pianist, composer, and producer Gustavo Casenave. Originally from Montevideo,
Uruguay, Casenave is an active performer in the jazz world and the contemporary classical scene. He moved to New York City in 1997, after graduating with honors from Berklee College of Music.

Tune in to the Musician’s Show Wednesday, February 22 from 6:00-9:00 PM EST for an interview with tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. James has shared stages with icons including Benny Golson, Geri Allen, Wallace Roney, Dorinda Clark Cole, as well as Weather Report bassist Alphonso Johnson, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver, Charles Gayle, Ed Shuller, Kirk Knuffke, Jason Hwang , Marilyn Crispell, Ken Filiano, Cooper Moore, Darius Jones, Eri Yamamoto, Federico Ughi, Kenny Wessel, Marvin “Bugalu” Smith, and Sabir Mateen.

Tune in to Studio A, Sunday, February 19 from 9:00-10:00 PM EST for a live, in-studio reading and interview with poet Diana Delgado. Delgado received her MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and a BA in Poetry from University of California, Riverside. Her poetry chapbook, Late-Night Talks With Men I Think I Trust, selected by Cornelius Eady, won the Center for Book Arts 2015 Poetry Chapbook Competition.

Tune in to Live Constructions Sunday, February 19 from 10:00-11:00 PM EST to hear a live in-studio performance with cellist Amanda Gookin. Gookin will be premiering her Forward Music Project, which aims at encouraging social change and empowerment for women and girls, at the National Sawdust on March 1.

Tune in for this week's Middle Eastern Influences (12am-1am on Friday, February 17th, late Thursday night) for an in-studio interview with Brooklyn-based artist, Alsarah, from her group, Alsarah & the Nubatones.

Tune in to the Musician’s Show on Wednesday, February 15 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM EST for music presented by Stephanie Chou, a saxophonist, singer, and composer based in New York City whose music combines classical and Chinese influences with jazz and pop harmonies and rhythms. In 2011, Chou released her first album, Prime Knot, a jazz quintet CD featuring trumpeter Marcus Printup (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra). She has written for ballet and theater as well as for the concert stage.

Tune in to the Musician’s Show on Wednesday, February 15 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM EST for music presented by Stephanie Chou, a saxophonist, singer, and composer based in New York City whose music combines classical and Chinese influences with jazz and pop harmonies and rhythms. In 2011, Chou released her first album, Prime Knot, a jazz quintet CD featuring trumpeter Marcus Printup (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra). She has written for ballet and theater as well as for the concert stage.

Tune in to Arts and Answers on Thursday, February 16 from 9:30 - 10:00 PM EST for an interview with Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo), the founder and designer of the eco-conscious fashion brand PM Waterlily. Michaels has developed a cottage industry in her local town of Taos, New Mexico, which produces her clothing according to ethical business practices. She was also a contestant on the 11th season of Project Runway. She emphasizes the importance of film and video to expand the visibility for her work.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music on Tuesday, February 14 from 3:00 - 6:00 PM EST for a post-show talkback with William Gustafson and Joan La Barbara on their reproduction of the groundbreaking Robert Ashley opera, DUST.

Tune in to Late City Edition on February 13 at 9:00 PM EST for a special report on the NoDAPL Standing Rock Solidarity Rally that happened on January 24 in New York City. In addition to the coverage of speeches given by indigenous activists who had been at Standing Rock and filmmaker John Fox, our reporter followed the march as it moved from Trump Hotel to Trump Tower, and the interactions the protestors had with police.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music on February 8 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM for an interview with New York percussionist and composer William Hooker, who has performed as a leader of various ensembles of improvised and new music. Hooker will discuss his ARIA project, a tribute to Italian folk music.

Tune in to Arts and Answers on Monday, February 6 at 9:30 PM EST for an interview with Dan Hoyle. Hoyle is a solo-show performer, actor, writer, and current artist-in-residence at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. His show, The Real Americans, was created in 2009 as a work of journalistic theater that chronicled the lives of people living in rural, conservative, small town United States. This past summer, Hoyle did an update of the show on the cusp of Trump's election.

Tune in to Live Constructions Sunday, February 5 at 10:00 PM EST for an exclusive live set by Henry Fraser (bass) and Sam Weinberg (sax). The duo will also share music from their band, Maestro Day and will talk about their music and a future duo project on an interview.

Tune in to Afternoon New Music on Wednesday, February 1 at 3:00 PM EST for an interview with composer and performer Molly Joyce. Joyce’s work has been performed at the Bang on a Can Marathon and VisionIntoArt’s FERUS Festival, and featured in outlets such as Pitchfork, WNYC’s New Sounds, Q2 Music, and I Care If You Listen. Her debut EP “Lean Back and Release” is out now on New Amsterdam Records.

Tune in to the Musician's Show, Wednesday, February 1 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM EST for a live interview with alto-Saxophonist David Binney, a prolific and musician in the New York jazz scene. Binney was celebrated by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.” David’s distinctive saxophone sound and innovative compositions have been heard from basement clubs in New York to jazz festivals in Europe and the world.

Tune in to Late City Edition on Tuesday, January 31 at 9:00 PM EST for news update on the Barnard Contingent Faculty Union. Last Monday, the Barnard Contingent Faculty Union announced a strike deadline of February 21, 2017, meaning just under half of Barnard's faculty could go on strike if no negotiations are reached with the Barnard administration by that date.

Tune in to Arts and Answers Tuesday, January 31 at 9:20 PM EST for an interview with Academy Award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, as he discusses on his new film, The Salesman, his influences, the current political climate and the international stage with reporter Meena Ardebili. The Salesman was recently nominated for an Oscar in Best Foreign Picture.