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The Original Improvisor
Studio 360: American Icons
November 27, 2009
Music historian Stanley Crouch includes Moby-Dick in his lectures about jazz history at Juilliard, even though the novel was written over five decades before jazz developed. According to Crouch, Melville was an expert at improvisation. Produced by Ave Carrillo.
The Jazz Loft Project: More Tapes
Soundcheck
November 24, 2009
Thousands of hours of tape recorded in a Manhattan loft in the late 1950s and early '60s were recently discovered. They became The Jazz Loft Project -- and a 10-part WNYC radio series produced in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In today’s episode, "More Tapes," Sara Fishko takes a close listen to some of the music and conversation captured by photographer W. Eugene Smith's tape recorders, starting in 1957.
This series is produced in conjunction with Sam Stephenson’s book, The Jazz Loft Project, coming out today. For more information on the project, click here.
The Jazz Loft
Soundcheck
November 19, 2009
After our look at the state of jazz in New York, we return to a golden age of the genre: the 1950s and '60s. Thousands of hours of tape recorded in a Manhattan loft during that era were recently discovered. They became WNYC’s Jazz Loft Project, a 10-part series produced in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Today’s episode is about a somewhat mysterious figure, Hall Overton, who is known primarily as Thelonious Monk’s arranger for the 1959 Big Band concert at Town Hall. It turns out Overton was a lot more. WNYC's Sara Fishko joins us for part four of the series.
Jazz Loft Musicians Seek Space to Jam in the City
May 05, 2009
The energy of New York City has always provided musicians with fuel for performance. But one thing the city doesn't have a lot of is space. As part of WNYC’s continuing Jazz Loft Project, WNYC’....
Thelonious Monk
The Leonard Lopate Show
February 25, 2009
Pianist/composer
Events:
The Charles Tolliver Tentet performs The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall, 1959: Reviving a Landmark
Thursday, February 26, at 8:00 pm
Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
For more information and tickets, visit the Monk at Town Hall website or call the Town Hall box office: 212-307-4100.
The Jason Moran Tentet performs In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall 1959
Friday, February 27, at 8:00 pm
Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
For more information and tickets, visit the Monk at Town Hall website or call the Town Hall box office: 212-307-4100.
Monk's Big Band
The Fishko Files
February 19, 2009
Next week, two concerts in New York’s Town Hall recall an event held 50 years ago on that very same stage. There, Thelonious Monk and nine other stellar players made their mark on jazz history. WNYC’s Sara Fishko has the story behind a famous musical moment, in this edition of the Fishko Files...
On Thursday, Feb. 26 and Friday, Feb. 27, 2009 at Town Hall, Charles Tolliver and Jason Moran memorialize Monk’s music in their own ways. You can attend the concerts or listen to WNYC’s broadcast of the Tolliver event Thursday night. For more information, go to MonkAtTownHall.org
Joshua Redman
Studio 360
January 23, 2009
Joshua Redman is jazz royalty. His father is Dewey Redman, one of the great sax players of modern jazz. Joshua has come into his own as one of the greats of his generation. Kurt spoke with Redman last year, after he’d finished Back East. The album was inspired by Way Out West, the 1957 Sonny Rollins classic. (Originally aired: August 3, 2007)
Thelonious Monk at Town Hall
January 13, 2009
On February 26th and 27th, WNYC joins Duke Performances and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke for two special concerts commemorating the 50th anniversary of Thelonious Monk’s historic 1959....
Lionel Loueke
Soundcheck
July 18, 2008
West African
