Sponsor

wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

Tag: Music

Around The Jazz Internet: Feb. 3, 2012

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Patrick Jarenwattananon

A new crowdfunded festival in Philadelphia, plus Jamal, James and Junebug.

Comment

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Live At The Village Vanguard

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Patrick Jarenwattananon

There's a tradition in many New York City jazz clubs: Monday nights are reserved for big bands. The Village Vanguard, the most storied of clubs, has observed this practice since 1966. Watch a live concert webcast at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, Feb. 13.

Comment

'Idol' Is Rewriting History. Or Is It Stopping Time?

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Ann Powers

The show is effecting established artists' careers just as much as it's birthing new ones.

Comment

Studio 360

Jack DeJohnette

Aha Moment: Jack DeJohnette

Friday, February 03, 2012

The drummer Jack DeJohnette has recorded with all the jazz superheroes of the last half century. But he tells Studio 360 that what he really wanted to do was play piano. He’d begun a promising career as a pianist when he was entranced by the drummer Vernell Fournier, who had ...

Video: Vernell Fournier plays with brushes

Comment

Around The Classical Internet: February 3, 2012

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Anastasia Tsioulcas

Gustavo con Elmo, leis for a new Hawaiian symphony and head-bumping in Moscow: all the classical music news that's fit to link.

Comment

Studio 360

Eve Beglarian

Eve Beglarian's Huck Finn Adventure

Friday, February 03, 2012

In 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River. The sounds and stories she gathered from the trip inspired her new collection of compositions, BRIM: Songs from the RiverProject. She performs songs from the album live in the studio ...

Video: "It Happens Like This"

Comment

JEFF The Brotherhood Brings The Noise To D.C.

Friday, February 03, 2012

It got loud when NPR Music live webcast a full concert by one of the grittiest rock duos of the past decade, JEFF The Brotherhood. The band has an outsize sound, fueled by deafening guitar noise and trashy rhythms, and is known for its feverish but often playful live performances.

Comment

First Watch: Mati Zundel's Kaleidoscopic Butcher Shop

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Bob Boilen

The Argentinean producer and electronic artist's new video will make your eyes pop out of your head.

Comment

Girls On World Cafe

Friday, February 03, 2012

Hear the garage band perform its effortlessly contagious, retro-inspired rock on today's show.

Comment

Clark Terry On Piano Jazz

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Grant Jackson

Legendary trumpeter and educator Clark Terry got his jazz education playing with the Basie Band and Duke Ellington's orchestra. Commanding a wide range of styles and a dazzling technique, Terry went on to become one of the most influential jazz horn players of his generation. In this 1994 session, he joins host Marian McPartland for Ellington's "Come Sunday" and Terry's most famous tune, "Mumbles."

Comment

Hell Can Wait

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Pablo Helguera

Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.

Comment

Bill Frisell: Tiny Desk Concert

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Bob Boilen

The brilliant and nimble guitarist reinvents the songs of John Lennon at the NPR Music offices.

Comment

The Biggest Football Song You Won't Hear In Indianapolis

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Vivien Goldman

Football players outside America have their own anthem, a Brazilian pop song about hitting on girls.

Comment

Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Smash' Talk And Getting Serious About Reading

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Linda Holmes

On this week's show: A discussion about the ups and downs of NBC's new musical drama Smash, and a chat with NPR.org's new books editor about high literature, low literature, and how people read.

Comment

A Studio On The Road To 'Fame' For Soul Musicians

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Ed Ward

One capital of soul in the 1960s? Muscle Shoals, Ala., a fly-speck on the map which spawned some of the era's greatest recordings, via productions in Rick Hall's Fame Studios. Rock historian Ed Ward has their story.

Comment

Drum Fill Friday

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Robin Hilton

Name that drum fill! Take our quiz and match drum fills and intros with their songs and artists.

Comments [1]

Dale Jett And Hello Stranger On Mountain Stage

Friday, February 03, 2012

The country scion is joined by friends John Carter Cash and Laura Cash in this all-star performance.

Comment

Kathleen Edwards: A Gallery Of Drama

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Owen King

Before Edwards has sung a word, it's clear that "Change the Sheets" is a song about heartbreak.

Comment

Music Hub

Gig Alert: Jherek Bischoff

Friday, February 03, 2012

By Monika Fabian

Seattle composer-performer Jherek Bischoff opens the 2nd Annual Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall on Saturday night. Download his quirky instrumental "Secret of the Machines."

Comment

New Sounds

Susanna Wallumrod, Susanna & the Magic Orchestra

Evening Songs

Friday, February 03, 2012

For this New Sounds, we’ll listen to songs with a twilight feel – that is, evening songs.  We’ll hear songs, both old and new - by Henry Purcell along with songs by Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake-  featuring baroque harp, Swedish Nickelharpa, and viola da gamba on a record called “If Grief Could Wait.”  The project is a collaboration between baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi and the Swedish singer Susanna Wallumrød.  

Comment

WHAT'S ON

Audio Help Schedule

Sponsored

Feeds

Supported by