Kiran Ahluwalia, a powerful and elegant singer/composer with roots in Hindustani Music and Ghazal, joins us at WKCR for Raag Aur Taal to share her new album "Sanata : Stillness." Her CD Release Concert is Febuary 21st at Roulette in Brooklyn.
Tune in to Raag Aur Taal: 7-9PM 89.9 FM-NY.
Tune in to the In All Languages show, Sunday February 15th from 11pm to 2am to explore the sounds of continental Southeast Asia. From the harp music of Burma to the zithers of Vietnam, we will present the music of the Indochinese Peninsula with its various specificities and instruments.
Tune in as we bring you four Columbia basketball games this Valentine's Day weekend! First, the men visit Harvard tonight. Coverage begins at 5:45 p.m. You can listen to the broadcasts of the women's game against Harvard beginning at 7 p.m. on the Real Audio stream. The women's game can also be heard on the MP3 stream at the conclusion of the men's broadcast. Coverage of both games against Dartmouth begins at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday evening. You can hear the men's game at 89.9 FM or the MP3 stream, while the women's game will stream on the Real Audio stream.
Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by organist Jared Gold. Jared Gold has become on the top organists around New York City. He has played with guitarists John Abercrombie, Ed Cherry, Jimmy Ponder, saxaphonists Oliver Lake, Ralph Bowen, Don Braden, and drummers Adam Nussbaum, Ralph Peterson, and Tony Reedus, among many others. He has been guitarist Dave Stryker’s organist of choice since 2004 and plays on Stryker’s latest release, Eight Track.
Holiday or not, Phil Schaap will be on-air for Out To Lunch for his annual Presidential Address Broadcast (that would be by Lester Young). Tune in from noon – 3pm ET on Monday, February 16th to hear this special broadcast!
Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and educator Josh Lawrence and drummer Anwar Marshall. Lawrence and Marshall are both graduates of the music program at UArts and are regular members of the Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band, which features some of the best soloists from New York and Philadelphia.
Tune in to the In All Languages show, Sunday 1st of February from 11pm to 2am to hear a special series exploring the fusion between traditional Arabic music with jazz expressions. We'll see how certain jazz musicians from the Middle-East such as the trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf are reshaping the expressions of jazz sounds. We will also look at musicians like Anouar Brahem, Dhafer Youssef or Rabih-Abou Khalil coming from a classical Arabic music background in which they integrate the traditional oud in a jazz context.
Tune in Wednesday evening from 6-9 PM to hear this week's edition of the Musician's Show, where we will be joined by guitarist Oz Noy. Noy was born in Israel, and began planning professionally at age 13. By his mid-20s he was an established studio musician, performing with the house band of Israel’s top-rated television show. Noy made the move to New York City in 1996, and since, has performed at some of the best live music venues in New York including the Bitter End, the Iridium, and the Blue Note.
WKCR is pleased to bring you a special festival broadcast dedicated to Antonio "Tom" Carlos Jobim on his birthday Sunday, January 25th from 10:00 AM until 8:00 PM! Born on January 25th 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, Jobim would go on to become one of the most influential songwriters and composers of the twentieth century, he is most reowned for his significant impacts in the bossa nova style. To celebrate Jobim’s enormous musical contributions, we will be playing his music on his birthday as well as interviews and other materials.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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