Host Mitch Goldman and his musician-guest explore rare archival recordings of one of the guest’s favorite artists.
Episodes
Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020
1 hr 8 min
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
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020
1 hr 20 min
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
Sep 17, 2020
Sep 17, 2020
30 min
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)
Sep 16, 2020
Sep 16, 2020
1 hr 15 min
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)
Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020
1 hr 19 min
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)
Sep 10, 2020
Sep 10, 2020
52 min
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.
Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020
58 min
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.
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
1 hr 19 min
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
Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
49 min
There’s a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can– study, practice, master every scale and every mode– and then on the bandstand you leave all that behind and simply play, as a child plays. No one embodies this ideal more than Keith Jarrett; he is renowned for sitting down at the piano with absolutely no preconceived idea of what he is going to play. What emerges is a spontaneous composition.
When you listen to Jack DeSalvo, it’s immediately apparent that he has an enormous musical vocabulary. Renaissance classical, garage rock, straight ahead jazz, downtown skronk and traditional mandolin melodies are all part of his musical DNA. But when you hear DeSalvo improvise on classical guitar, you’re hearing music of that precise moment. He has many influences (and there are as many poets, philosophers and thinkers as there are musicians) but his original inspiration for pure invention is Keith Jarrett.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeSalvo #KeithJarrett #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz
Aug 26, 2020
Aug 26, 2020
1 hr 6 min
There’s a school of thought among some jazz musicians that you should learn all you can– study, practice, master every scale and every mode– and then on the bandstand you leave all that behind and simply play, as a child plays. No one embodies this ideal more than Keith Jarrett; he is renowned for sitting down at the piano with absolutely no preconceived idea of what he is going to play. What emerges is a spontaneous composition.
When you listen to Jack DeSalvo, it’s immediately apparent that he has an enormous musical vocabulary. Renaissance classical, garage rock, straight ahead jazz, downtown skronk and traditional mandolin melodies are all part of his musical DNA. But when you hear DeSalvo improvise on classical guitar, you’re hearing music of that precise moment. He has many influences (and there are as many poets, philosophers and thinkers as there are musicians) but his original inspiration for pure invention is Keith Jarrett.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #JackDeSalvo #KeithJarrett #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz