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Eddie Jefferson on Jazz Profiles

Sid Gribetz presents a special radio broadcast celebrating the career of vocalist Eddie Jefferson this Sunday, February 12, 2017 from 2:00-7:00 PM EST on for Jazz Profiles.
Eddie Jefferson was the progenitor of the style known as “vocalese”, the writing of lyrics to the improvised solos on jazz instrumental recordings.
Jefferson was born on August 3, 1918 in Pittsburgh.
Date: 
Sun, 12 Feb 2017, 2:00pm to 7:00pm

No-Land Bands

Tune in to Middle Eastern Influences tonight, February 9 from midnight-1:00 AM EST for an exclusive recording of "A Journey to Aleppo", the first music-video collaborative performance by the creative project, No-Land Bands. On January 15 at the Lower East Side's venue, Spectrum, this 5-part performance followed Aleppo before the war, during its destruction and fall, and into exodus of refugees and the camps they must call "home".
Date: 
Thu, 9 Feb 2017, 11:59pm to Fri, 10 Feb 2017, 1:00am

Martin Zandvliet for Arts and Answers

Tune in to Arts and Answers on Tuesday, February 7 at 9:30 PM EST for an interview with Martin Zandvliet. Zandvliet is the director of Land of Mine, the Danish film nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film of the year. As World War Two comes to an end, a group of German POWs, boys rather than men, are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task – to defuse and clear land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over.
Date: 
Tue, 7 Feb 2017, 9:30pm to 10:00pm

Dan Hoyle for Arts and Answers

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.

Date: 
Mon, 6 Feb 2017, 9:30pm to 10:00pm

Molly Joyce for Afternoon New Music

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.

Date: 
Wed, 1 Feb 2017, 3:00pm to 6:00pm

David Binney for the Musician's Show

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.

Date: 
Wed, 1 Feb 2017, 6:00pm to 9:00pm

BCF-UAW Local 2110 for Late City Edition

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.

Date: 
Tue, 31 Jan 2017, 9:00pm to 9:20pm

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Emmet Cohen on Out to Lunch

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).

Date: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Related Program: 
Out to Lunch
Related Department: 
Jazz

Aspen Matis on Studio A

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.

Date: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 9:00pm to 10:00pm
Related Program: 
Studio A
Related Department: 
Arts

George Wallington Celebration on Jazz Profiles

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.
Date: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 2:00pm to 7:00pm
Related Program: 
Jazz Profiles
Related Department: 
Jazz

Streaming WKCR during Bach Festival Announcement

We, the WKCR Board, wanted to address any of the inconveniences experienced in using our stream. Unfortunately, our online stream regularly approaches maximum capacity during the Bach Festival. As we try to accommodate for more listeners, we implore anyone tuning in within our radio broadcasting range to tune in with a radio receiver.

Date: 
Thursday, December 25, 2014 - 12:00pm to Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 11:59pm

Gustav Leonhardt Memorial Broadcast

This Friday, January 20th, WKCR will be devoting over eleven hours of programming to the music of Gustav Leonhardt (5/30/1928-1/16/2012). As a harpsichordist, organist, and conductor, Leonhardt was on the forefront of the movement in early music to revive period styles and practices. While best known for his recordings of J.S. Bach, Leonhardt made spectacular recordings of many different early music and Baroque composers. Tune in from 9:30am-9:00pm to hear WKCR's tribute to this legendary musician.
Date: 
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 9:30am to 9:00pm
Related Department: 
Classical
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