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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.

Tune in to Late City Edition, Tuesday, January 24, from 9:00 - 9:15 PM EST for WKCR's news coverage of the Women's March on New York City. Reporters from WKCR attended the historic march, gathering interviews from a handful of the estimated 250,000 protesters and speakers about the reasons they took to the streets on January 21, 2017.

Tune in all day Wednesday, January 25, for WKCR's 19th Tom Jobim birthday broadcast in celebration of his 90th anniversary. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1927, Antônio Carlos Jobim gained major recognition at a national level in 1959 when he collaborated with poet Vinicius de Moraes to compose the score for the movie Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which would go on to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Tune in to Studio A tonight, Sunday, January 22 from 9:00 - 10:00 PM EST for a live interview with poet Rosebud Ben-Oni. Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Tune in this Sunday, January 22nd from 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST to Jazz Profiles for a profile of pianist/composer Geri Allen. Allen-a pianist/composer, bandleader, educator and Guggenheim Fellow-is the first recipient of the Soul Train, Lady of Soul Award for Jazz. In 2011, Geri Allen was nominated for an NAACP Award for her Timeline, Tap Quartet Project. Allen is the first woman, and youngest person to receive the Danish Jazz Par Prize.

Tune in Monday, January 23 at 3:00 PM to Afternoon New Music for a live performance and interview with percussionist, composer, and improviser Sean Hamilton on live electronics and drums. Notably, Hamilton has performed as an artist-in-residence with Leeds Improvised Music and Experimentation and was a featured performer at the Anxious Sound Series in New Orleans, Louisiana. His music focuses on electroacoustics, experimentation, and free improvisation.

Tune in Tuesday, January 24 at 3:00 PM to Afternoon New Music for an interview and in-studio performance by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Anaïs Maviel. Maviel will be playing the n'goni and the surdo drum. Additionally, she will talk with us about her musical practice and upcoming show at the ISSUE Project Room on Saturday, January 28, to which we will be giving away two pairs of tickets.

Join WKCR this Monday, January 30th as we celebrate the 106th birthday anniversary of one of the foundational figures of the Swing Era, jazz trumpeter Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge. Known for his signature boldness in rhythm and sound, Eldridge is often credited for his role in bridging the musical styles and approaches of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. Eldridge is often characterized by his use of tritone substitutions and virtuosic solos. Born in 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eldridge spent the early years of his career touring with a number of dance bands.

Tune in to Arts and Answers on Thursday, January 20 from 9:30 - 10:00 PM for an interview with the illustrious poet Ron Padgett, who wrote the poetry for the 2016 drama film, Paterson. Directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Adam Driver, Paterson screened in October at the 54th New York Film Festival and is playing in theaters now.

Tune in this Wednesday, January 18th from 6-9 pm EST for a live interview with vocalist Camila Meza on the Musician’s Show. With an already flourishing career in Chile from the age of 19, by the time she moved to New York at 23. During her seven years in the United States, Camila Meza has created a big impact in the New York jazz scene. She possesses an innate and rare combination of qualities as a singer and guitar player, who also writes her own songs and arrangements.

Today, January 10th, WKCR dedicates an entire day of programming to a birthday broadcast in honor of American jazz musician Max Roach. Join us now until midnight as we celebrate Roach's monumental contributions as a drummer, composer, educator, and activist with continuous programming exclusively of his music.

Sid Gribetz presents a five hour radio program celebrating the pianist and composer George Wallington on Jazz Profiles this Sunday, January 15 from 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST. George Wallington was one of the legendary pianists of the bebop era but never achieved great fame. With his early retirement from a musical career, he remains a more obscure figure in jazz history and lore. However, he was an especially swinging pianist and inventive composer who deserves continued attention.

Tune in to Studio A this Sunday, January 15, from 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST for an interview with internationally-bestselling memoirist Aspen Matis. Her book, Girl in the Woods, tells the story of her sexual assault and her flight from college, which led to a journey of self-discovery as she set out to hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. A brief account of her experiences appeared first in The New York Times' Modern Love column, and that subsequentally led to her inspiring and heart-wrenching memoir.

Join us Tuesday, January 17 during our Out to Lunch programming from 1-2:30 pm EST for an interview with New York-based jazz pianist Emmet Cohen regarding his most recent project "Masters Legacy Series featuring Jimmy Cobb." Cohen began Suzuki method piano instruction at age three, and his playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality, technique, and concept. He placed first in both the American Jazz Pianists competition (2014) and the Phillips Piano Competition at the University of West Florida (2011).

Tonight at 9:00 PM, tune in to Studio A to hear an interview with director Maren Ade and actress Sandra Hüller from the 2016 German language film Toni Erdmann. The film, a flawless and clever reinvention of a typical father-daughter comedy, is on the Oscar shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film and won five prizes at the European Film Awards this year.