The WKCR Jazz department proudly present 72 non-stop hours of birthday broadcast programming as part of WKCR’s birthday week 2022!

From 12:00 AM 3/9 — 12:00 PM 3/10, 36 hours of Ornette Coleman

From 12:00 PM 3/10 — 12:00 PM 3/11, 24 hours of Bix Beiderbecke

From 12:00 PM 3/11 — 11:59 PM 3/11, 12 hours of Bobby McFerrin

These will be the final three in a series of five birthday broadcasts during the week of 3/7-3/11.

Keep your radio tuned to 89.9 FM to catch all our Jazz birthday programming!

You can find the program schedules for each segment below (as of ⅜/22):

Ornette Coleman:

3/9/22

12:00AM — 3:00AM — Sam Seliger

3:00AM — 6:00AM — Phil Schaap archival from 3/9/2019: On this edition of the Birthday Broadcast, Phil presents the earliest live and studio recordings of Ornette Coleman.

6:00AM — 9:00AM — Redmond Stein

9:00AM — 12:00PM — Sharif Abdus-Salaam

12:00PM — 3:00PM — Christine Zhang

3:00PM — 6:00PM — Andy Wang

6:00PM — 9:00PM — Benjamin Magid

9:00PM — 12:00AM — Melody Lu

3/10/22

12:00AM — 3:00AM — Razvan Matei

3:00AM — 9:00AM — Phil Schaap archival from 3/9/2015: On the 2015 Ornette Coleman Birthday Broadcast, the last one in Coleman’s lifetime, Phil examines some of Ornette’s Third Stream experiments.

9:00AM — 12:00PM — TBA

Bix Beiderbecke:

12:00PM — 3:00PM — Oscar Luckett

3:00PM — 6:00PM — Sam Seliger

6:00PM — 9:00PM — Matthew “Fat Cat” Rivera

9:00PM — 12:00AM — Nitya Nigam

3/1½2

12:00AM — 3:00AM - Olivia Mitchell

3:00AM — 6:00AM — Phil Schaap archival from 3/10/2018: For his second set of this year’s Birthday Broadcast, Phil explores recordings on which the solo identification of Bix is in question and recordings made with Bing Crosby.

6:00AM — 9:00AM — Sofia Rivera

9:00AM — 12:00PM — Zachary Vanderslice

Bobby McFerrin:

12:00PM — 3:00PM — Amiri Tulloch

3:00PM — 6:00PM — Fenway Donegan

6:00PM — 9:00PM — Cliff Preiss

9:00PM — 12:00AM — Maria Shaughnessy