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Hprizm: Sound of the City

Submitted by gjd2122 on Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 9:37pm

Rooted in the creative subcultures of the Lower East Side, Hprizm’s practice spans a wide array of genres, including music, performance and multimedia installations. His current installation at Pioneer Works in Red Hook is exemplary of this very characterization.

Centered on a sonic score that moves between abstract noise and melodic interludes, Sound of the City collapses vinyl records, tape loops and granular synthesis with audio footage captured by Hprizm over the past few years.

Ron Carter

Submitted by ad3922 on Mon, 5 Jun 2023, 2:24pm

The legendary Ron Carter, the most recorded jazz bassist of all time, speaks with Zachary Vanderslice about his life and career in advance of his 85th birthday.

Samara Joy

Submitted by ad3922 on Mon, 5 Jun 2023, 2:19pm

Samara Joy, who was named Best New Artist at the 2022 Grammy awards, talks with Zachary Vanderslice about jazz education, her growing career, and her first album.

Josef Sorett on Duke Ellington

Submitted by ad3922 on Mon, 5 Jun 2023, 2:07pm

Josef Sorett, Dean of Columbia College and Professor of African-American Studies and Religion, speaks with Zachary Vanderslice about the relationship between religion and race in the music of Duke Ellington for the 2023 Duke Ellington birthday broadcast.

Creative Music Studio Jazz Profile, Part 4

Submitted by Kat Whatley on Wed, 4 Nov 2015, 1:11pm

This is the recording of the Jazz Profiles on Creative Music Studio. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, the Creative Music Foundation’s mission is to foster the keen awareness and focused practice of musical expression and interactions, and to support the understanding of music as a universal language by providing environments where musicians from different backgrounds and traditions share and explore together their personal musical interpretations. Special guests on the show were Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum.

Creative Music Studio Jazz Profile, Part 3

Submitted by Kat Whatley on Wed, 4 Nov 2015, 1:09pm

This is the recording of the Jazz Profiles on Creative Music Studio. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, the Creative Music Foundation’s mission is to foster the keen awareness and focused practice of musical expression and interactions, and to support the understanding of music as a universal language by providing environments where musicians from different backgrounds and traditions share and explore together their personal musical interpretations. Special guests on the show were Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum.

Creative Music Studio Jazz Profile, Part 2

Submitted by Kat Whatley on Wed, 4 Nov 2015, 1:08pm

This is the recording of the Jazz Profiles on Creative Music Studio. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, the Creative Music Foundation’s mission is to foster the keen awareness and focused practice of musical expression and interactions, and to support the understanding of music as a universal language by providing environments where musicians from different backgrounds and traditions share and explore together their personal musical interpretations.Special guests on the show were Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum.

Creative Music Studio Jazz Profile, Part 1

Submitted by Kat Whatley on Wed, 4 Nov 2015, 1:01pm

This is the recording of the Jazz Profiles on Creative Music Studio. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman, the Creative Music Foundation’s mission is to foster the keen awareness and focused practice of musical expression and interactions, and to support the understanding of music as a universal language by providing environments where musicians from different backgrounds and traditions share and explore together their personal musical interpretations.

Special guests on the show were Steven Bernstein and Peter Apfelbaum.

Steve Cohn

Submitted by Chason Goldfinger on Thu, 19 Jun 2014, 9:35pm

A live interview with pianist and shakuhachi player Steve Cohn on the Musician's Show on WKCR from Wednesday, June 18th, 2014. Ever innovative, Steve has developed a unique style of improvisation over the course of his career, which has taken him across styles of jazz as well as across the world. Steve has played with the likes of Eddie Henderson, Sonny Simmons, and Reggie Workman, among many others, and has performed his own works at venues such as New York City's Miller Theatre, the Newport JVC Festival, The Great American Music Hall, and the World Shakuhachi Festival.

Gerstein/Diana/Pride Improvisation, Part 2

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Fri, 20 Jul 2012, 4:54pm

Ben Gerstein: trombone Gian Luigi Diana: laptop, live processing, Mike Pride: percussion Engineers: David Beal, Kevin Crowley A live improvisation in WKCR's studios from this burgeoning trio. Gerstein and Pride utilized the space of the studio, bowing and scraping objects around them, while Diana often sampled the two instrumentalists to create a bed of noise for their further ideas.

Gerstein/Diana/Pride Improvisation, Part 1

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Fri, 20 Jul 2012, 4:52pm

Ben Gerstein: trombone Gian Luigi Diana: laptop, live processing, Mike Pride: percussion

Engineers: David Beal, Kevin Crowley

A live improvisation in WKCR's studios from this burgeoning trio. Gerstein and Pride utilized the space of the studio, bowing and scraping objects around them, while Diana often sampled the two instrumentalists to create a bed of noise for their further ideas.

Darius Jones, Ben Gerstein

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Mon, 16 Jul 2012, 8:07pm

Darius Jones and Ben Gerstein sat down to discuss the piece, Music for "Cabin Fever," they recorded earlier in the evening. With Ben present as a knowledgeable and interested friend, the interview turned to the trio of records Darius has released as part of his mythical "Man'ish Boy" series.

Music for "Cabin Fever"

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Mon, 16 Jul 2012, 7:56pm
Darius Jones-alto saxophone Ben Gerstein-trombone David Grollman-percussion Engineer: Mark Micchelli On July 5th, 2012, saxophonist Darius Jones brought in a trio to perform this piece, originally composed for a dance performance and played by Jones and Gerstein as a duo.

Mike Pride

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Fri, 6 Jul 2012, 7:13pm

Mike Pride stopped by on July 2, 2012 to play a solo drum set and discuss both this aspect of his career and his conceptual work "Drummer's Corpse", of which he's working to fund a recording via Kickstarter.

Interview/Solo Improvisation

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Tue, 12 Jun 2012, 3:39pm
British saxophonist and bagpipe player visited WKCR's studios on the occasion of his quartet appearance June 11th, 2012 at Vision Festival XVII. This interview features five minutes of solo tenor saxophone improvisation about 40 minutes into the track. Hosted by Kevin Crowley June 12th, 2012

Matthew Shipp

Submitted by Kevin "(the) Ma... on Sun, 10 Jun 2012, 7:46pm

Pianist Matthew Shipp came by Jazz Alternatives to discuss the release of his recent trio recording "Elastic Aspects." Interview incomplete, cuts off ~5 min. of conversation. Hosted by Kevin Crowley Feb. 17, 2012

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