Tune in to Out to Lunch today, August 18 from 12-3 PM ET for an in-studio performance by Marjorie Eliot and Parlor Entertainment. An enduring figure in New York's jazz landscape, Eliot is best known for her lively spirit, expressive piano skills, and the Sunday jazz concerts hosted in her 555 Edgecombe Avenue home -- a tradition she and her friends have kept for twenty five years.
Tune in to the Musician’s Show tonight, August 16 from 6-9 PM ET for a live interview with violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang. A versatile performer, Hwang focuses primarily on jazz and improvised musics, and has a particular interest in cross-cultural projects.
Tune in to Raag aur Taal tomorrow, August 13, from 7-9 PM ET to hear artists from the Indian classical groups Carnatic Guitar Power (students of Guitar Prasanna), Navatman Music Collective, and solo (Indrani Khare), who will be performing at the Drive East Music Festival next week. Drive East features over 20 concerts in one week at the Dixon Place theater here in New York City.
Tune in to Out to Lunch on August 11 from 12-3 PM ET for a brief memorial broadcast of Jess Stacy on what would have been his 113th birthday. Around the time historian Tad Jones discovered Louis Armstrong's real birthday (August 4), Stacy revealed that that he was born on August 11, 1904 and not on August 4, as is still listed in many Jazz references.
Tune in to Out to Lunch Thursday, August 10 2017 at 12:00 PM ET for an interview with Grammy-award-winning drummer, composer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington. Currently a professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, Carrington has toured with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, Stan Getz, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Cassandra Wilson, Clark Terry, Dianne Reeves and more.
Tune in to the Musician's Show tonight, August 9, from 6-9 PM ET for an interview with Michael Mwenso.
Tune in on Friday, August 4 as we celebrate the alternate birthday of Jazz great and American hero, trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong with 24 hours of only his music beginning at midnight. Armstrong chose to celebrate his birthday on July 4th every year, which we also honor with a memorial broadcast.
Tune in to the Musician’s Show on Wednesday, August 2 from 6:00-9:00 PM ET for a live interview with Sam Weinberg, a Brooklyn based saxophonist, composer and improviser. With equal footing in free improvisation, free jazz, and notated musics, Weinberg attempts to push the language and capacity of the saxophone beyond its usual, assumed limits. In the summer of 2016, he founded Renfusa Records which puts out limited-run cassette and CD-R releases of his own music and the music of his colleagues.
Tune in to Studio A on Sunday, July 30 from 9:00-10:00 PM ET for a live reading and interview with writer Caits Meissner. Meissner is the author of the hybrid poetry book Let It Die Hungry (The Operating System, 2016), and The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You (Well&Often, 2012), co-written with poet Tishon Woolcock.
Tune in to Late City Edition this Monday, July 31, at 9:00 PM ET for an interview with Dr. David Rosner regarding the history of lead poisoning in urban America. Dr. Rosner discusses how he uses his background as a public health social historian to help further understandings of modern health crises, like that of lead poisoning in Flint Michigan, with knowledge of past ones.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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