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A look into Albert Ayler's Revelations
This Saturday, July 13, celebrate the birthday of the great Albert Ayler with WKCR. From 3-6 PM, host Rachel Smith brings in bassist Steve Tintweiss and producer Jeff Lederer to shine a spotlight on Ayler’s late recordings, particularly the July 1970 concerts at the Fondation Maeght—released in full on the 4-CD or 5-LP set, Revelations. Change the way you remember Albert Ayler. Tune in at 89.9 FM or wkcr.org.
In conversation with Kavita Krishnamurti and Dr. L Subramanium
In honor of an upcoming concert on July 20, at the Town Hall in collaboration with the Indo American Arts Council in NYC, join WKCR host Manisha for an interview with DR. L. SUBRAMANIAM & KAVITA KRISHNAMURTI during tomorrow’s Raag Aur Taal from 7-9 pm EST.
Sonny Clark Sunday Profile
Tune in this Sunday, July 7th, from 2-7 PM EST as host Maki Nientao explores the life and music of pianist Sonny Clark, featuring an interview with author Sam Stephenson. One of the great jazz pianists to emerge from the Pittsburgh area (including Mary Lou Williams, Earl Hines, Billy Strayhorn, Ahmad Jamal, and Erroll Garner), Clark was a skilled accompanist as well as a swinging and soulful soloist whose music was profound through its clarity and straightforwardness.
Albert Ayler Birthday Broadcast
WKCR is elated to announce a 24-hour broadcast in honor of the great saxophonist Albert Ayler. With a distinct sound and style revered by John Coltrane, Ayler was an icon of avant-garde jazz.
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Jeff Parker Sunday Profile
Tune in this Sunday from 2-7 PM EST for a look into the vast discography of guitarist and composer Jeff Parker. A career spanning numerous decades and genres, Parker is well-known for his prolific work with a multitude of bands, including the alternative instrumental rock group Tortoise, the jazz-funk ensemble of Isotope 217, and the free jazz of the Chicago Underground, as well as many other appearances on albums featured as a sideman.
Louis Armstrong Birthday Broadcast
Tune in on Thursday, July 4 as we celebrate the chosen birthday of trumpeter, vocalist Louis Armstrong with 24 hours of his music beginning at midnight. In his autobiography, Swing That Music, Louis Armstrong titled the first chapter “Jazz and I Get Born Together.” Dating his birthday July 4, 1900 (as his mother had always told him), Armstrong created a mythology that linked his own birth to the birth of Jazz and the birth of America.
Harold Land Sunday Profile
Sid Gribetz presents Harold Land for a five hour retrospective radio program this Sunday, June 23, 2024, from 2-7 PM on WKCR. Land was best known as the tenor saxophonist in the original Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. But his prolific and accomplished career lasted more than four decades thereafter, although never gaining the more widespread fame that he deserved. Land possessed a firm sound and ingenious creativity on his saxophone and also was an inventive composer.
WKCR Broadcasts the Porch Stomp Folk Music Festival
Tune in to WKCR from 2-5 pm tomorrow, June 15th, to hear WKCR broadcast live performances from the Porch Stomp Folk Music Festival on Governor’s Island.
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