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Great Night for Great White Way
At last night's Tony Awards, fresh-faced musicals battled for the spotlight with powerful revivals. Today, we discuss the winners. Later: Saxophonist Maceo Parker helped create the sound of funk in the '60s a sideman for James Brown. He joins us to talk about playing -- and singing -- on his new record, "Roots & Grooves."
The Tonys Roundup
The 62nd annual Tony awards pretty much conformed to expectation on last night at Radio City Music Hall. The sincere and salsa-inflected "In the Heights" trumped the wildly audacious rock musical "Passing Strange" to take the Tony for best new musical. Lincoln Center Theater's acclaimed revival of South Pacific took home the most awards with seven Tony Awards overall. Time Out New York theater critic David Cote joins us to offer his reaction to Broadway’s biggest night.
Our blog: John Schaefer on this year's Tony awards
Weigh in: What do you think were the biggest surprises at this year's Tony Awards?
Maceo Parker
Saxophonist Maceo Parker helped create the sound of funk in the 60s as right-hand man to James Brown. But before that he was influenced by Ray Charles. Parker pays tribute to Charles in a new two-disc album featuring him singing with Germany’s WDR Big Band. Maceo Parker joins us to talk about the record, "Roots & Grooves."
Maceo Parker performs Wed. Jun. 18 at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple at 8pm, as part of the JVC Jazz Festival.
Black Cab Sessions
Your task: Find a critically acclaimed songwriter, stuff him or her into a cab, and record an intimate live performance to be shared on the Internet. In New York, it might get you killed. But that's just what a team of British music promoters and filmmakers are doing inside London's famously roomy black cabs. Jono Stevens of the Black Cab Sessions talks about how an online music juggernaut got its start.
Black Cab Sessions web site
Video: Death Cab for Cutie, "No Sunlight"
Video: Lykke Li, "I'm Good I'm Gone"
Video: Spoon, "I Summon You"
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