All Of It with Alison Stewart

Tom Hall, director of programming for the Montclair Film Festival, talks to us about this year’s slate of films, which began screening on October 21, and runs through October 30.

This episode is guest-hosted by Kerry Nolan.

John Coltrane's album, A Love Supreme, is celebrated as one of the most important jazz albums in history. There had only ever been one known live recording of the album in full, that is...until now. Tapes were recently discovered of a performance on October 2, 1965, when Coltrane was recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle. The album, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, has been re-mastered for release on October 22. Ashley Kahn, professor of music history at NYU, and Lewis Porter, professor of music at Rutgers University-Newark, who both wrote liner notes for the new release, join us for a Listening Party to talk about the history and importance of the record.

On October 23, a group of performers will celebrate the history and landmark designation of New York’s Tin Pan Alley with a free concert at the Flatiron North Plaza. American Songbook interpreter and Nighthawks bandleader Vince Giordano joins us along with George Calderaro, director of the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project, to preview the concert and discuss the importance of the site.

Helado Negro, aka singer/songwriter Roberto Carlos Lange, follows up 2019’s acclaimed This Is How You Smile with the album Far In, which he calls "the album I've wanted to make for most of my life." He joins us for a release day Listening Party.

Acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews follows up her celebrated book Women Talking with her latest, Fight Night, which tells the story of three generations of Canadian women, alternating between the voice of the grandmother, and the nine year old granddaughter. We speak to Toews as part of our series highlighting exciting fall books each Friday of October.

In 2019, the Cousteau Society granted Liz Garbus exclusive access to never-before-seen archival video and audio footage of the famed ocean explorer and conservationist, Jacques Cousteau. The result is the new documentary “Becoming Cousteau.” Director and producer Garbus joins us to talk about the making of the film.

"Becoming Cousteau" is in theaters now.

"Freestyle Love Supreme" returned to Broadway with a star-studded premiere October 19. We speak to Anthony Veneziale, who co-created the group with Lin Manuel Miranda, along with cast members Andrew Bancroft, Kaila Mullady and Aneesa Folds, about their return to Broadway and the FLS Academy.

"Freestyle Love Supreme" is on Broadway at the Booth Theatre through January 2022.

Following our conversation about LGBTQ+ and other representation in comic books, we'll look at the Marvel universe, and the interconnected world that's built between the speech bubbles of dozens of beloved superhero franchises. Douglas Wolk joins us to discuss his new book, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told, for which he read all of the Marvel comics, or at least around 27,000, give or take.

With the announcement that Superman's son will be bisexual in an upcoming comic, Glen Weldon, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, joins to talk about comic culture, and the recent trend of writing LGBTQ+ storylines into classic superhero franchises.

The British musical “Six” was set to open in March 2020… and then Broadway was shut down. Now the pop musical, which tells the story of the six wives of King Henry VIII, has finally opened. Stars Brittney Mack, Samantha Pauly, and Anna Uzele join us to discuss the show, on now at the Brooks Atkinson Theater.