Tune in to the Musician’s Show on Wednesday July 12, 2017 from 6-9 PM ET for an interview with John Otten. Otten is a New York based trumpeter currently studying at the Manhattan School of Music. He was born and raised in Seattle, a fertile music community. He is an alumni of the Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, which has placed numerous times in the Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival.
Tune in to the Musician’s Show this Wednesday, July 19 from 6-9 PM ET for a live interview with American jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn. Horn gained prestige in 2015 when she won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz competition. Just two years earlier in 2013, Horn won first place in the Sarah Vaughan competition. Horn first started singing in church in her hometown in Texas--her grandfather was a pastor and her parents wanted her to be active in the church.
Tune in to the Musician's Show tonight, July 5, from 6:00-9:00 PM ET for an interview with Immanuel Wilkins. Wilkins is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, and band leader. While growing up in the Philadelphia area, he played in his church and programs dedicated to teaching jazz music such as the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music on Monday, July 3 at 3:00 PM ET for a feature on cellist Mariel Roberts. In addition to airing a previously recorded performance at WKCR’s studios, we will also chat with Roberts about and listen to some tracks off of her new album Cartography, which features some captivating experimental technique that new music fans are sure to enjoy.
Tune in on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 as we celebrate the chosen birthday of Jazz great and American hero, trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong. We will play 24 hours of only his music beginning at midnight. Louis was born in New Orleans at the turn of the century (officially on August 4th) and grew up surrounded by a vibrant musical culture informed by the rags of Scott Joplin and the funeral marches that comprised the New Orleans music scene.
Tune into Middle Eastern Influences Thursday night through Friday morning, midnight-1:00 AM ET, for an exclusive conversation with Tair, Liron, and Tagel Haim, the three sisters of Yeminite folk-electronic band, A-WA. Join us in the KCR studios as we listen and respond to tracks from the 7-person ensemble's 2015 album release, "Habib Galbi", as well as insights to upcoming projects from A-WA.
Tune in to the Musician’s show this evening, June 28, from 6:00-9:00 PM ET for a live interview with Anna Webber. Webber is a Brooklyn-based flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live the overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. With her Simple Trio, featuring drummer John Hollenbeck and pianist Matt Mitchell, she has released two critically acclaimed albums on Skirl Records: Binary (2016) and SIMPLE (2014).
Tune in to the Firing Lion this evening, June 21, from 9:00-10:00 PM ET for a live interview with Anders Hill, Bewley Wales, Lord Hyeamang, and Landon Baty, this year's 2017 Columbia University Football's Captains. Dante Guarneri will speak with the Lions' newest leaders about the team's culture change over their time, expectations going into this season, role on campus as faces for the program, and much more.
Tune in to the Musician's Show this evening, June 21, from 6:00-9:00 PM ET for a live interview with Ole Mathiesen. Mathiesen is a tenor and soprano saxophonist. Originally from Norway, Mathiesen received his Bachelor degree from Berklee College of Music and his Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. He has performed with a number of world-renowned musicians like Bob Moses, Peter Erskine, Adam Nussbaum and Randy Brecker. Mathiesen’s unique and adaptable saxophone style is equally at home in a late John Coltrane piece as it is in a grooving salsa number.
Tune in this evening, June 16, at 9:00 PM ET to hear an exclusive interview with comedian, singer-songwriter, visual artist, and drag queen Brian Firkus, perhaps better known as Trixie Mattel of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7. Hear Firkus discuss the politics of being a drag queen and a country-folk musician in the LGBT community.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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