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03/06/2022

Join us tonight on Coordinated Universal Time from 11pm-12am to listen to upcoming Ugandan-British artist Lancey Foux! 🇺🇬🇬🇧

03/03/2022

We've got an amazing slate of special broadcasts lined up for next week! Keep the dial tuned to 89.9 FM for:

Maurice Ravel on Monday
Johnny Ventura on Tuesday
Ornette Coleman on Wednesday through 12pm on Thursday
Bix Beiderbecke from 12pm Thursday to 12pm Friday
Bobby McFerrin from 12pm to Midnight Friday

03/01/2022

Tune in today from 12pm-12am for our Mardi Gras special broadcast, featuring New Orleans jazz, hip-hop, and bounce music, as well as some feel-good Cajun French tunes to liven up your Fat Tuesday. Happy Mardi Gras from WKCR!

03/01/2022

Celebrate Maurice Ravel’s 147th birthday with WKCR! Tune in on March 7th for a 24-hour birthday broadcast filled with your favorite Ravel music!

02/27/2022

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02/27/2022

How It Was Done In Odessa: A Profile of Ukraine's sunshine city. Join us from 5-7pm tomorrow (Sunday) to hear the songs, art, and stories of the trickster gods. 89.9 FM and WKCR.org

02/27/2022

Tomorrow on Jazz Alt, 6-9pm: Deep Focus with Mitch Goldman

The music I love has porous boundaries. If the audience responds to what they hear, the musicians will give that energy right back to them. If the acoustics are kind, the music will communicate better among the musicians, between musician and audience. But what about the people the artists met that day? And the food they ate and the air they breathed? Can an audience hear all of that? What about the lives people have lived in that place? The love and sacrifice that was made there? And what about what was in that place before all of that? Does a place have a spirit and can it live in the music? Oh, hell yes it can and it does!

Don't believe me? Drummer Pheeroan akLaff and I will prove it to you on this week's Deep Focus, recorded in 2011. We explore rare live recordings of Miles Davis and John Coltrane in Japan in the Sixties when that country was just taking its place on the world's stage.

This Monday on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

Photo credit: John Coltrane stamp - Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

02/25/2022

Join us this Sunday from 2-5 pm as Melody Lu makes her Jazz Profiles debut featuring the great female vocalist Dinah Washington. Tune in at 89.9 PM or at WKCR.org to listen to her extensive discography and hear about her impact on jazz.

02/14/2022

Jazz Alt this Monday: Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on Bud Powell with guest David Virelles

You know what's wrong with this country? We don't spend enough time talking about pianist Bud Powell. Well, this Monday from 6pm to 9pm on Deep Focus, Mitch Goldman and his guest, pianist David Vierelles, are going to do something about that. The WKCR archives delivered live recordings so rare that they are not found in any discography. Bud's son John Powell even calls during the show saying even he had not heard them!

It's only on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org. Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #BudPowell #DavidVirelles #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast

(Photo credit: Bud Powell by Herman Leonard, courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.si.edu)

02/13/2022

Today (Sunday!) from 5-7pm: A profile of pop revolutionary M.I.A. Tune in!

02/07/2022

WKCR merch sale is now live! Visit https://www.customink.com/fundraising/wkcr-studio-design-shirt?side=front&type=1&zoom=false for WKCR t-shirts and https://www.customink.com/fundraising/wkcr-bachfest-tote-bag for BachFest 2021 tote bags. Sale ends on Monday, February 28. Order and help support non-commercial radio and great music!

01/31/2022

WKCR presents a 126-hour long Phil Schaap tribute broadcast, beginning 6pm Tuesday February 1st and running continuously for five full days through midnight, Sunday February 6.

Phil passed away on September 7, 2021 at the age of 70. For over 50 years he was the guiding light and spiritual leader of jazz programming at our radio station. His death affected us all dearly, but we have gathered ourselves to honor him the way he taught us to do for all jazz luminaries, with a long running in depth radio broadcast.

The Tribute will touch on all aspects of Phil’s career, but especially his radio broadcasts. As the cornerstone of the Tribute, we will be playing Phil’s most popular shows from the WKCR archives, such as Traditions In Swing, Birthday Broadcasts, Phil’s interviews with jazz legends, Bird Flight, Out To Lunch, and excerpts from our Festivals. The program will also feature some of Phil’s contributions to other aspects of the jazz community, as an educator, record producer, sound engineer, record vault researcher, concert producer at the West End Cafe, and so much more. We will play representative musical selections to acknowledge these many activities. Furthermore, the program will allow us to reminisce in tempo to include interviews with figures from the jazz world, panel discussions with WKCR colleagues from across the decades, testimonials from listeners, and other features.

Tune into 89.9 FM NY and stream on wkcr.org to join us in the celebration.

#WKCR #PhilSchaap #SchaapLives

01/29/2022

Tomorrow, Sunday January 30th, is our annual Roy Eldridge Birthday Broadcast. Join us tomorrow as we celebrate the life and music of this jazz trumpeter who, according to Ella Fitzgerald, put "more soul in one note that a lot of people could get into the whole song." Tune in on WKCR 89.9FM and wkcr.org.
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/roy-eldridge-birthday-broadcast-2

01/25/2022

ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM BIRTHDAY BROADCAST, January 25th 2022 | WKCR 89.9FM NY

Tuesday, January 25, is our 23rd annual Antonio Carlos Jobim Birthday Broadcast. Tune in for a 24 hour celebration of Jobim's life and his dazzling musical catalog.
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/antonio-carlos-jobim-birthday-broadcast-january-25th-2022

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (All day)On Tuesday, January 25th, WKCR celebrates the music and life of Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, or "Tom," on what would be his 95th birthday. Composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer, Jobim's contributions to music in Brazil and worldwide are...

01/17/2022

Jazz Alt today: Mitch Goldman's Deep Focus on hand drummers Mtume and Big Black with guest Adam Rudolph

The hand and the drum: after the human voice, probably the original musical instrument. But the question tonight on Deep Focus is its possibilities for modern improvisation, outside of the bounds of the Afro-Cuban tradition. It is possible that no one has dived deeper on this question than Adam Rudolph: Big Black with Randy Weston is an answer, Mtume and Don Alias with Miles Davis is another. We lost Mtume last week so it's a fitting time to celebrate his music, as we do in this Deep Focus from 2017.

With live, unreleased recordings, you're going to want to have something to beat on for this one!

Monday from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.

Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/

#WKCR #JazzAlternatives #MitchGoldman #AdamRudolph #BigBlack #Mtume #MilesDavis #ElectricMiles

01/15/2022

Phil Schaap Memorial Broadcast — Call for story submissions

WKCR will have a Phil Schaap Memorial Broadcast from Tuesday 2/1 6pm to Saturday 2/6 to honor Schaap’s legacy. In addition to drawing from his archival programs, interviews, and the recordings he produced to play as part of the broadcast, we are collecting stories about Schaap from people who knew him to possibly play on air. If you knew Schaap personally, please call our Phil Schaap story hotline (646) 389-0607 to leave a voicemail message about how you knew Schaap and your Schaap story. Alternatively, you can share using this online form if you prefer: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfixKDkR11rhE2PZkvCoNeAL-7oRCvW2RY3Q_-Jncs367OpYw/viewform.
Looking forward to remembering and celebrating with you.

01/01/2022

Tomorrow from 10am to 7pm, WKCR will have a memorial broadcast dedicated to J. D. Crowe, the bluegrass banjo master who passed away on Christmas Eve. Tune in tomorrow on 89.9 FM NY and wkcr.org to learn about his music and his legacy.

12/31/2021

Tomorrow's Something Inside of Me is a special episode on blues songs about Christmas, New Year's, and winter. Tune in from 2-4pm on WKCR 89.9 FM and online at wkcr.org!

We wish you a happy, healthy 2022!

12/24/2021

And so it begins!! WKCR is thrilled to present this year's Bachfest, starting NOW at wkcr.org and on the dial at 89.9FM NY. Tune in to hear all of your favorite cantatas, concertos, and oratorios, brought to you live from the WKCR studios – 24 hours a day for 8 days straight!

Check out our website for our programming schedule! https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/bachfest-2021