Host Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.
Episodes
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Ornette Coleman was renowned for dispensing with the rules of Jazz improvisation. So can Ornette's concept be taught? Even institutionalized? That was the question before Ornette and fellow musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso in the early Seventies. The answer? Oh yes, it can. You bet it can! Institutionalized with all of its infinite horizons still in view.
The Creative Music Studio, in Woodstock, NY, became a learning center, a nexus point for emerging improvisers, a concert producer... As founding advisory board member Buckminster Fuller might have said, a verb rather than a noun. For a dozen years, CMS pointed the way to undiscovered lands and provided the means and directions for getting there. Its impact decades later is undiminished and certainly not forgotten by the many who passed through it. You will find quite a number of these folks named in any evaluation of today's most imaginative improvisers.
Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso joined host Mitch Goldman in a Deep Focus on the history of CMS in 2012, complete with ear-opening, never-before-heard live recordings. Hear a rebroadcast of this recording Monday night (9/28) from 6pm to 9pm on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman
Photo credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 1982
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.
Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.
Podcast: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
#WKCR #DeepFocus #HerbieHancock #RichardAdmiral #MitchGoldman #SeventiesJazz #GraffitiArt #NYCintheSeventies #BAMA_AMRL
Photo credit: CBS Television - Public domain
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.
Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.
Podcast Tuesday: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
#WKCR #DeepFocus #HerbieHancock #RichardAdmiral #MitchGoldman #SeventiesJazz #GraffitiArt #NYCintheSeventies #BAMA_AMRL
Photo credit: CBS Television - Public domain
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Does the name “Mwandishi” Mean anything to you? How about “Headhunters”? Herbie Hancock is one of our most respected composer/improvisers today but in the Seventies there was a whole other thing going on. Herbie, in his music and in the cool images of him back then, always seemed to be 5 minutes in the future. And who did he find in that immediate future? Visual artist/musician Richard Admiral was right there waiting for him. If you saw Admiral's tags "BAMA" or "AMRL" in the train yards of The Bronx, you were closer to Herbie's music than you knew. Are we talking about "back in the day'? No, this was quite a ways before that.
Richard Admiral joins me in a rebroadcast from 2017 on the music of Herbie Hancock in the Seventies.
Podcast Tuesday: https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/
#WKCR #DeepFocus #HerbieHancock #RichardAdmiral #MitchGoldman #SeventiesJazz #GraffitiArt #NYCintheSeventies #BAMA_AMRL
Photo credit: CBS Television - Public domain
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Long before George Benson became a pop hitmaker he was a Jazz guitar assassin. Many top-shelf plectrists will tell you that he is still the guitarists’ guitarist. Wait a minute: "top-shelf plectrist"…. Who does that remind me of? David Gilmore: school me!
Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Long before George Benson became a pop hitmaker he was a Jazz guitar assassin. Many top-shelf plectrists will tell you that he is still the guitarists’ guitarist. Wait a minute: "top-shelf plectrist"…. Who does that remind me of? David Gilmore: school me!
Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Long before George Benson became a pop hitmaker he was a Jazz guitar assassin. Many top-shelf plectrists will tell you that he is still the guitarists’ guitarist. Wait a minute: "top-shelf plectrist"…. Who does that remind me of? David Gilmore: school me!
Photo credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
We were talking about “The Total Package” as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might not have thought of); it means choosing the right music (maybe songs you write or ones you cultivate from other composers). More than anything, it means having a distinct point of view and letting those decisions flow from that. Don Pullen demonstrated that ethos through the many bands he led over the years, none more so than his last band, The African-Brazilian Connection (I mean, the POV is there in the name!).
Drummer JT Lewis was in that band. Maybe that experience contributed to his decision to start the band that he still co-leads, Harriet Tubman (hmmm, there’s one of those names again).
Trust me: this is one from the heart.
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
We were talking about “The Total Package” as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might not have thought of); it means choosing the right music (maybe songs you write or ones you cultivate from other composers). More than anything, it means having a distinct point of view and letting those decisions flow from that. Don Pullen demonstrated that ethos through the many bands he led over the years, none more so than his last band, The African-Brazilian Connection (I mean, the POV is there in the name!).
Drummer JT Lewis was in that band. Maybe that experience contributed to his decision to start the band that he still co-leads, Harriet Tubman (hmmm, there’s one of those names again).
Trust me: this is one from the heart.
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
We were talking about “The Total Package” as a bandleader: what does that really mean? It means choosing the right sidemen (perhaps ones whom others might not have thought of); it means choosing the right music (maybe songs you write or ones you cultivate from other composers). More than anything, it means having a distinct point of view and letting those decisions flow from that. Don Pullen demonstrated that ethos through the many bands he led over the years, none more so than his last band, The African-Brazilian Connection (I mean, the POV is there in the name!).
Drummer JT Lewis was in that band. Maybe that experience contributed to his decision to start the band that he still co-leads, Harriet Tubman (hmmm, there’s one of those names again).
Trust me: this is one from the heart.
Don Pullen photo credit: Metaweb FB CC-BY-SA