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- 2017.05.17 William Hooker on Billy Bang 2 of 3
Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was equally apt when he was blowing up the violin in searing explosions filled with joy and heartache. Few know this as well as drummer William Hooker who toured and recorded with Billy.
William Hooker has never released the recordings but he shares them with us in this Deep Focus from 2017 on Billy Bang.
#WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #BillyBang #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic
Photo credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
1 hr 22 min - 2017.05.17 William Hooker on Billy Bang 1 of 3
Billy Bang wasn’t called “Billy Bang” for nothing. He earned that name as a demolitions expert in Viet Nam but it was equally apt when he was blowing up the violin in searing explosions filled with joy and heartache. Few know this as well as drummer William Hooker who toured and recorded with Billy.
William Hooker has never released the recordings but he shares them with us in this Deep Focus from 2017 on Billy Bang.#WKCR #DeepFocus #WilliamHooker #BillyBang #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusic
Photo credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)1 hr 22 min - 2012.05.09 Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso on CMS 3 of 3Ornette 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.#WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #Jazz #CreativeMusicPhoto credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 198251 min
- 2012.05.09 Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso on CMS 2 of 3Ornette 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.#WKCR #DeepFocus #CreativeMusicStudio #KarlBerger #IngridSertso #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterviewPhoto credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 19821 hr 3 min
- 2012.05.09 Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso on Creative Music Studio 1 of 3Ornette 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 #MitchGoldmanPhoto credit: Mitch Goldman - copyright 19821 hr 12 min
- 2017.12.11 Richard Admiral on Herbie Hancock 3 of 3Does 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_AMRLPhoto credit: CBS Television - Public domain32 min
- 2017.12.11 Richard Admiral on Herbie Hancock 2 of 3Does 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_AMRLPhoto credit: CBS Television - Public domain1 hr 9 min
- 2017.12.11 Richard Admiral on Herbie Hancock 1 of 3Does 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_AMRLPhoto credit: CBS Television - Public domain1 hr 21 min
- 2017.02.08 David Gilmore on George Benson 3 of 3Long 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!#mitchgoldman #deepfocus #DavidGilmore #GeorgeBenson #jazz #JazzRadio #jazzinterview #WKCRPhoto credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)31 min
- 2017.02.08 David Gilmore on George Benson 2 of 3Long 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!#mitchgoldman #deepfocus #DavidGilmore #GeorgeBenson #jazz #JazzRadio #jazzinterview #WKCRPhoto credit: Robbie Drexhage / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)1 hr 16 min
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