Podcast appearances and mentions of billy bang

ANA RUÍZ “AND THE WORLD EXPLODED INTO LOVE” Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2018-2020 Querétaro (para mi hija), ReflexiónAna Ruíz (piano solo) BILLY BANG “VALVE NO. 10” Milan, March 8 & 9, 1988P.M., Lonnie's lamentFrank Lowe (ts) Billy Bang (vln,poetry) Sirone (b) Denis Charles (perc) DARIUS JONES “fLuXkit” Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25, 2022Fluxus V5T 1S1, Damon and PythiasDarius Jones (as,comp) Joshua Zubot, Jesse Zubot (vln) Peggy Lee (cello) James Meger (b) Gerald Cleaver (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 21 de marzo, 2025 at PuroJazz.

ANA RUÍZ “AND THE WORLD EXPLODED INTO LOVE” Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2018-2020 Querétaro (para mi hija), ReflexiónAna Ruíz (piano solo) BILLY BANG “VALVE NO. 10” Milan, March 8 & 9, 1988P.M., Lonnie's lamentFrank Lowe (ts) Billy Bang (vln,poetry) Sirone (b) Denis Charles (perc) DARIUS JONES “fLuXkit” Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25, 2022Fluxus V5T 1S1, Damon and PythiasDarius Jones (as,comp) Joshua Zubot, Jesse Zubot (vln) Peggy Lee (cello) James Meger (b) Gerald Cleaver (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 21 de marzo, 2025 at PuroJazz.

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“JOE VENUTI AND EDDIE LANG” “JOE VENUTI AND EDDIE LANG” New York, September 29, 1926Stringing the blues, Black and blue bottomJoe Venuti (vln) (g) STUFF SMITH “BILTMORE HOTEL” New York, January 6, 1937Honeysuckle rose, Stomping at the SavoyStuff Smith (vln) Clyde Hart (p) Bobby Bennett (g) John Kirby (b) Cozy Cole (d) Ella Fitzgerald (vcl) EDDIE SOUTH “PARIS” – November 25, 1937Fiddle blues (1,2)Eddie South (vln) Stephane Grappelli (vln-1) Django Reinhardt (g) Paul Cordonnier (b-2) “AND DUO” – Hilversum, Holland, March 13, 1938Black gypsyEddie South (vln) Dave Martin (p) STEPHANE GRAPPELLI “VIOLINS NO END” Paris, May 4, 1957Don't get around much anymoreStephane Grappelli, Stuff Smith (vln) Oscar Peterson (p) Herb Ellis (g) Ray Brown (b) Jo Jones (d) JEAN-LUC PONTY “UPON THE WINGS OF MUSIC” Los Angeles, CA, January, 1975Upon the wings of musicJean-Luc Ponty (vln,el-vln,violectra,synt) Patrice Rushen (p,el-p,org,clavinet,synt) Dan Sawyer (el-g) Ralphe Armstrong (el-b) Leon “Ndugu” Chancler (d,perc,tom-tom) BILLY BANG “TRIBUTE TO STUFF SMITH” New York, September 20, 21 & 22, 1992Lover manSun Ra (p,synt) Billy Bang (vln) John Ore (b) Andrew Cyrille (d) REGINA CARTER “ELLA : ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE” New York, December, 2016All my lifeXavier Davis (p) Marvin Sewell (g) Regina Carter (vln) Chris Lightcap (b) Alvester Garnett (d) JENNY SCHEINMAN “THE RABBI'S LOVER” Brooklyn, NY, 2001The rabbi's loverRuss Johnson (tp) Adam Levy (g) Jenny Scheinman (vln) Greg Cohen (b) Trevor Dunn (b-1) Kenny Wollesen (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 21 de octubre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

“JOE VENUTI AND EDDIE LANG” “JOE VENUTI AND EDDIE LANG” New York, September 29, 1926Stringing the blues, Black and blue bottomJoe Venuti (vln) (g) STUFF SMITH “BILTMORE HOTEL” New York, January 6, 1937Honeysuckle rose, Stomping at the SavoyStuff Smith (vln) Clyde Hart (p) Bobby Bennett (g) John Kirby (b) Cozy Cole (d) Ella Fitzgerald (vcl) EDDIE SOUTH “PARIS” – November 25, 1937Fiddle blues (1,2)Eddie South (vln) Stephane Grappelli (vln-1) Django Reinhardt (g) Paul Cordonnier (b-2) “AND DUO” – Hilversum, Holland, March 13, 1938Black gypsyEddie South (vln) Dave Martin (p) STEPHANE GRAPPELLI “VIOLINS NO END” Paris, May 4, 1957Don't get around much anymoreStephane Grappelli, Stuff Smith (vln) Oscar Peterson (p) Herb Ellis (g) Ray Brown (b) Jo Jones (d) JEAN-LUC PONTY “UPON THE WINGS OF MUSIC” Los Angeles, CA, January, 1975Upon the wings of musicJean-Luc Ponty (vln,el-vln,violectra,synt) Patrice Rushen (p,el-p,org,clavinet,synt) Dan Sawyer (el-g) Ralphe Armstrong (el-b) Leon “Ndugu” Chancler (d,perc,tom-tom) BILLY BANG “TRIBUTE TO STUFF SMITH” New York, September 20, 21 & 22, 1992Lover manSun Ra (p,synt) Billy Bang (vln) John Ore (b) Andrew Cyrille (d) REGINA CARTER “ELLA : ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE” New York, December, 2016All my lifeXavier Davis (p) Marvin Sewell (g) Regina Carter (vln) Chris Lightcap (b) Alvester Garnett (d) JENNY SCHEINMAN “THE RABBI'S LOVER” Brooklyn, NY, 2001The rabbi's loverRuss Johnson (tp) Adam Levy (g) Jenny Scheinman (vln) Greg Cohen (b) Trevor Dunn (b-1) Kenny Wollesen (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 21 de octubre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

BILLY BANG “THE FIRE FROM WITHIN” New York, September 19 & 29, 1984The glow of awareness, The nagual Julian (1), Petty tyrantsAhmed Abdullah (tp) Billy Bang (vln) Oscar Sanders (el-g) William Parker (b) John Betsch (d,cowbell) Thurman Barker (marimba) Charles “Bobo” Shaw (cowbell-1) PAUL MOTIAN “LOST IN A DREAM” Live, Village Vanguard, New York, February, 2009Lost in a dream, Blue midnight, TenChris Potter (ts) Jason Moran (p) Paul Motian (d) MAL WALDRON “THE GIT GO” New York, September 16, 1986Status seekingWoody Shaw (tp,flhrn) Charlie Rouse (ts,fl) Mal Waldron (p) Reggie Workman (b) Ed Blackwell (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 11 de septiembre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

BILLY BANG “THE FIRE FROM WITHIN” New York, September 19 & 29, 1984The glow of awareness, The nagual Julian (1), Petty tyrantsAhmed Abdullah (tp) Billy Bang (vln) Oscar Sanders (el-g) William Parker (b) John Betsch (d,cowbell) Thurman Barker (marimba) Charles “Bobo” Shaw (cowbell-1) PAUL MOTIAN “LOST IN A DREAM” Live, Village Vanguard, New York, February, 2009Lost in a dream, Blue midnight, TenChris Potter (ts) Jason Moran (p) Paul Motian (d) MAL WALDRON “THE GIT GO” New York, September 16, 1986Status seekingWoody Shaw (tp,flhrn) Charlie Rouse (ts,fl) Mal Waldron (p) Reggie Workman (b) Ed Blackwell (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 11 de septiembre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Poly-Rythmo (as T. P. Orchestre) w. Betti Betti; also vintage, also from Benin: Orchestre/Band de  Parakou Nord; from Mali: Orchestre Regional de Segou (misidentified on audio); vintage Billy Bang w. quartet (Don Cherry, Wilber Morris, Dennis Charles); Denman Maroney w. Leroy Jenkins, Rich O;'Donnell; from Cabo Verde: Nancy Vieira (new);  Galáxia 2000; from Angola: Lily Tchumba, Ruy Mingus (new), Belita Palma; bop from Tina Brooks w/ quintet; Myra Milford with Chris Jonas & group; from Tunisia: modern, popular, folk, tribal musics (vocal and otherwise) from  Heidi Habbouba, Saliha; Sofia Chaima, and Naama; Girma Yifrashewa w. Patrice Legrand et al. (Franco-Ethiopian chamber music); the Sea Ensemble (Kali Fasteau, Rafael Garrett, et al.); Algerian Raï from Fadela; and of course, much, much more!! Catch the BIRDS live on Friday nights, 9:00pm-MIDNIGHT (EST), in Central New York on WRFI, 88.1 FM Ithaca/ 88.5 FM Odessa;. and WORLDWIDE online via our MUSIC PLAYER at WRFI.ORG. 24/7 via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program and free also to stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast online: PLAYLIST at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/19076476/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com  

Estas dos palabras dan título a un álbum grabado por Ornette Coleman en doble cuarteto a finales de 1960 para el sello Atlantic. La obra —cuyo título completo es Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation— rompe las estructuras previas del jazzy apunta a un paroxismo nunca escuchado._____Has escuchadoAscension - Edition I (1965) / John Coltrane. John Coltrane, saxofón tenor; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bajo; Elvin Jones, batería; Archie Schepp y Pharoah Sanders, saxofón tenor; John Tchicai y Marion Brown, saxofón alto; Art Davis, bajo. Impulse (1987)Hello Chi (1970) / Art Ensemble of Chicago. Fontella Bass, voz; Lester Bowie, trompeta; Roscoe Mitchell, flauta y saxofón alto; Joseph Jarman, flauta y saxofón alto; Malachi Favors, bajo. FreeFactory (2010)Simple Like (1969) / Anthony Braxton. Leo Smith, trompeta y mult. instrumentos; Anthony Braxton, saxofón alto y mult. instrumentos; Leroy Jenkins, violín y mult. instrumentos; Steve McCall, percusiones. BYG Records (1969)Sunday Morning Church (2003) / William Parker. Billy Bang, violín; Hamid Drake, batería; William Parker, contrabajo. Thirsty Ear (2003)Truth Is Marching in (1966) / Albert Ayler. Albert Ayler, saxofón tenor; Don Ayler, trompeta; Michel Sampson, violín; Bill Folwell y Henry Grimes, bajos; Beaver Harris, batería. Impulse (1998)_____Selección bibliográficaANDERSON, Iain, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007BRADLEY, Francis R., Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker. Duke University Press, 2021CARLES, Philippe y Jean-Louis Comolli, Free Jazz: Black Power. Traducido por Juan Giner. Anagrama, 1973JENKINS, Todd S., Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press, 2004JOST, Ekkehard, Free jazz: une étude critique et stylistique du jazz des années 1960. Outre Mesure, 2002KOLODA, Richard, Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler. Jawbone Press, 2022MAZZOLA, Guerino y Paul B. Cherlin, Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz Towards a Theory of Collaboration. Springer, 2009ONSMAN, Andrys y Robert Burke, Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas. Routledge, 2019PARKER, William et al., Conversations. Rogueart, 2011—, Conversations II: Dialogues and monologues. Rogueart, 2015—, Conversations III: Dialogues and monologues. Rogueart, 2019—, Conversations IV. Rogueart, 2023PEYROU, Mariano, Free jazz: la música más negra del mundo. Anagrama, 2024RUSH, Stephen, Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman. Routledge, 2017SCHWARTZ, Jeff, Free Jazz: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies, 2018*SKLOWER, Jedediah, Free jazz, la catastrophe féconde: une histoire du monde éclaté du jazz en France (1960-1982). L'Harmattan, 2006SPICER, Daniel, Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation. Repeater, 2024STEINBECK, Paul, Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 2017SZWED, John F., Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra. Duke University Press, 2020TONELLI, Chris (Chris J.), Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing. Routledge, 2019TOOP, David, En el maelström: música, improvisación y el sueño de la libertad antes de 1970. Caja Negra, 2018*WILMER, Val, As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977. Serpent's Tail, 2018 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

BILLY BANG VALVE NO. 10 ANA RUÍZ AND THE WORLD EXPLODED INTO LOVE Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2018-2020 Querétaro (para mi hija), ReflexiónAna Ruíz (piano solo) BILLY BANG VALVE NO. 10 Milan, March 8 & 9, 1988P.M., Lonnie's lamentFrank Lowe (ts) Billy Bang (vln,poetry) Sirone (b) Denis Charles (perc) DARIUS JONES fLuXkit Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25, 2022Fluxus V5T 1S1, Damon and PythiasDarius Jones (as,comp) Joshua Zubot, Jesse Zubot (vln) Peggy Lee (cello) James Meger (b) Gerald Cleaver (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 05 abril 2024 at PuroJazz.

BILLY BANG VALVE NO. 10 ANA RUÍZ AND THE WORLD EXPLODED INTO LOVE Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2018-2020 Querétaro (para mi hija), ReflexiónAna Ruíz (piano solo) BILLY BANG VALVE NO. 10 Milan, March 8 & 9, 1988P.M., Lonnie's lamentFrank Lowe (ts) Billy Bang (vln,poetry) Sirone (b) Denis Charles (perc) DARIUS JONES fLuXkit Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25, 2022Fluxus V5T 1S1, Damon and PythiasDarius Jones (as,comp) Joshua Zubot, Jesse Zubot (vln) Peggy Lee (cello) James Meger (b) Gerald Cleaver (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 05 abril 2024 at PuroJazz.

ANA RUÍZ AND THE WORLD EXPLODED INTO LOVE Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2018-2020 Querétaro (para mi hija), ReflexiónAna Ruíz (piano solo) BILLY BANG VALVE NO. 10 Milan, March 8 & 9, 1988P.M., Lonnie's lamentFrank Lowe (ts) Billy Bang (vln,poetry) Sirone (b) Denis Charles (perc) DARIUS JONES fLuXkit Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25, 2022Fluxus V5T 1S1, Damon and PythiasDarius Jones (as,comp) Joshua Zubot, Jesse Zubot (vln) Peggy Lee (cello) James Meger (b) Gerald Cleaver (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 05 abril 2024 at PuroJazz.

ANA RUÍZ AND THE WORLD EXPLODED INTO LOVE Tepoztlán, Mexico, 2018-2020 Querétaro (para mi hija), ReflexiónAna Ruíz (piano solo) BILLY BANG VALVE NO. 10 Milan, March 8 & 9, 1988P.M., Lonnie's lamentFrank Lowe (ts) Billy Bang (vln,poetry) Sirone (b) Denis Charles (perc) DARIUS JONES fLuXkit Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25, 2022Fluxus V5T 1S1, Damon and PythiasDarius Jones (as,comp) Joshua Zubot, Jesse Zubot (vln) Peggy Lee (cello) James Meger (b) Gerald Cleaver (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 05 abril 2024 at PuroJazz.

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This is an unofficial production of Worm, by John “Wildbow” McCrae. Thanks to Billy Bang for narrating No money is being made from this project, and no copyright infringement is intended. Thank you for listening.

This week on Echoes of Indiana Avenue we'll celebrate the July birthday of Charles Tyler – an important avant-garde saxophonist known for his work in free jazz music. Tyler spent much of his childhood in Indianapolis. He attended Crispus Attucks High School, and studied music with the Indianapolis Junior Symphony Orchestra. During his historic career, Tyler performed with many of the greatest legends in jazz – including Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Wes Montgomery, Albert Ayler, Billy Bang, Steve Lacy, and others. We'll share an hour of classic music from Charles Tyler and speak with his cousin Gregg Bacon, who calls Tyler a mentor and inspiration.

William Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music.  More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order.  The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom.   So which of them are we going to focus on?  You'll have to tune in to find out but trust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business!   This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org.  Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   Photo credit: William Parker by Jimmy Katz, used by permission of William Parker, williamparker.net.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamParker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #FreeJazz #JazzImprov #VisionFest 

William Parker has perhaps done more than any musician alive to spread understanding and support for open improvised music.  More than that, he is a bassist, bandleader, and conceptualist of the highest order.  The sheer volume of projects (including the upcoming Vision Festival) that he commits energy to is simply daunting and the list of noted improvisers he has played with is practically a who's who of the idiom.   So which of them are we going to focus on?  You'll have to tune in to find out but trust me: you are going to be a fly on the wall with William and me for some heavy, heavy business!   This Monday 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org.  Next week it goes up on the podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   Photo credit: William Parker by Jimmy Katz, used by permission of William Parker, williamparker.net.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamParker #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #FreeJazz #JazzImprov #VisionFest 

This is an unofficial production of Worm, by John “Wildbow” McCrae. Thanks to Billy Bang for narrating No money is being made from this project, and no copyright infringement is intended. Thank you for listening.

This is an unofficial production of Worm, by John “Wildbow” McCrae. Thanks to Billy Bang for narrating No money is being made from this project, and no copyright infringement is intended. Thank you for listening.

Laurie Towers is a bassist within New York City's “downtown” scene of free improv, new music and punk-laden experimentalism. Over the past twenty-five years she's brought her R&B-driven counterpoint and chops to venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, sharing the stage with an array of musicians in the nexus between rock, jazz and the avant garde. Towers also made her mark in the upstate artists' community of Woodstock NY where she was referred to as a “bass wizard” in a ‘Woodstock Times' review. As a member of the Red Microphone, she recorded with revolutionary poet Amina Baraka for the legendary ESP-Disk label. Also a successful business owner and host of her feminist radio show, Towers' tenacity and activism have guided her journey, offering a model of empowerment for women in the arts and more. Towers has also been a member of the Dissident Arts Orchestra from the start. Creating downtown-style improvised scores to silent films. On Halloween, the Orchestra crafted a unique soundtrack to the FW Murnau terror classic ‘Nosferatu' with Towers' pulsating, throbbing fretless bass offering the vampire a voice to be reckoned with. Capping off her rebel yell for women's rights, Laurie Towers created ‘She's Raising the Bar', a weekly podcast, in 2012. As its producer and co-host, she's engaged an array of woman actors, writers, vocalists and entrepreneurs and broadcasted her show live from the NYC Women's March, in the heat of battle. The Spirit of Billy Bang with Amina Baraka http://laurietowers.net http://wijsf.org  

Prima puntata del nuovo anno, con Billy Bang, Charles Mingus, Keith Tippett, John Coltraine, Louis Moholo-Moholo e Roberto Ottaviano...buon 2023

Space is the place_jazz e dintorni del 3 gennaio 2023Prima puntata del nuovo anno, con Billy Bang, Charles Mingus, Keith Tippett, John Coltraine, Louis Moholo-Moholo e Roberto Ottaviano...buon 2023 Per diffondere questa puntata: https://www.radiotandem.it/space-is-the-place-del-3-gennaio-2023 Tutti i podcast di Space is the place: https://www.radiotandem.it/category/space-is-the-place

"You inspire us to work hard to improve the service we do for the music community." In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Dawoud Kringle offers a retrospective of the progress of the MFM Speaks Out podcast in 2022. The guests mentioned, and / or whose music was included, include Ken Butler, Ariel Hyatt, Neel Murgai, Banning Eyre, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, William Parker, Bruce Lee Gallanter, Jeff Slatnick, Hubert Howe, and April Centrone.The progress and accomplishments of MFM as a whole during the year 2022 were also briefly discussed. Topics discussed:Our guest for episode 35 in January was musician, experimental musical instrument builder, and visual artist Ken Butler. He builds hybrid musical instruments and other artworks that explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, sounds and silence.He is internationally recognized as an innovator of experimental musical instruments created from diverse materials including tools, sports equipment, and household objects.February's episode 36 featured Ariel Hyatt. Ariel is a digital marketer, writer, and teacher who assists independent musicians in career development. She is the author of Music Success in 9 Weeks, Cyber PR For Musicians, Crowdstart, and other books. Hyatt worked at New York City's WNEW-FM, and the What Are Records? record label. She moved to Boulder CO, where she managed and handled publicity for the funk band, Lord of Word. She is also the founder and owner of the New York-based public relations firm Cyber PR. Her clients included the Toasters and George Clinton.Neel Murgai was our 37th guest in March. Neel is a sitarist, overtone singer, percussionist, composer, teacher, and Co-Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, a raga inspired musician's collective.Banning Eyre is a writer, guitarist and producer, and the senior editor and producer of the public radio program Afropop Worldwide.  He has traveled and done music research in over 20 African countries, as well as in the Caribbean, South America and Europe. His latest initiative is the launch of Lion Songs Records, an independent label dedicated to uplifting overlooked, mostly acoustic music from the African universe. He is the author of several books, and the co-author of AFROPOP! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music. Eyre is a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and his writing has been published in Billboard, Guitar Player, Salon, the Boston Phoenix, College Music Journal, Option, The Beat, Folk Roots, Global Rhythm, and other publications. He also has a background in technology, and worked for 10 years as a software technical writer. Eyre is also on the Advisory Committee of Musicians for Musicians.  Baba Don Eaton Babatunde. He is a percussionist and master of African Drumming and the rhythms of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Baba Don has performed and recorded with Abidun Oyewole and The Last Poets, Pattie Labelle, Joe Henderson, Donald Brown, Jason Linder, Tyrone Jefferson, Tevin Thomas, James Spaulding, Ron Carter, George Clinton, Pharaoh Sanders, the Metropolitan Orchestra, Bill Laswell, and Philycia Rashadto name a few. His work with dance companies and choreographers includes The Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Maurice Hines, Gregory Hines, Andy Williams, Chuck Davis Dance theatre, Frank Hatchet, Geoffrey Holder, Louis Johnson, and Pyramid Dance Company.Episode 40 featured free jazz bass master William Parker. He has also performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Hamid Drake, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Warren Smith, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Joe Morris, Steve Swell, David S. Ware, Leena Conquest, and many others. He was the leader of the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and In Order to Survive, a member of the Other Dimensions in Music cooperative, and co-founder of the musician's non-profit organization Arts For Art. Our guest for episode 41 was Bruce Lee Gallanter, the owner and proprietor of Downtown Music Gallery (DMG), a Manhattan based music store that specializes in new, used, hard to find, and out of print CDs, Vinyl, DVDs, and books. DMG was started in 1991 by David Yamner & Steve Popkin, with Gallanter working for the store. They remained in their first location on east 4th street in Manhattan for 12 years until 2003, and started having weekly free concerts, an idea that Gallanter had started with Manny Maris when they worked at Lunch For Your Ears. Gallanter became the owner in 1997. Around the time. he and Emperor Mike started the DMG newsletter, In 2003, they moved into a new store on the Bowery, not far from St. Marks Place, Tower Records, and Other Music.Jeff Slatnick was our 42nd guest. Jeff has been an employee and later the owner of Music Inn for over 54 years. Music Inn is one of the oldest music stores in New York City (second in longevity only to Sam Ash). It is a landmark music store in the West Village of NYC specializing in imported world and western instruments, rare and exotic music items, and records. Music Inn has been described as “a museum, rich with music history from around the world.” Music Inn is also the headquarters of Limulus, a company that designs and manufactures unique solid body string instruments. Hubert Howe graced the annals of our podcast as our 43rd guest. Hubert was one of the first researchers in computer music, and became Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music studios at Queens College in New York, where he was also Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music from 1989 to 1998, 2001 to 2002, and Autumn 2007. He taught at the Juilliard School from 1974 through 1994. In 1988-89 he held the Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama. He has been a member of the Society of Composers, Inc. , President of the US section of the League of Composers / International Society of Contemporary Music, a member of the International Computer Music Association, and directed the International Computer Music Conference at Queens College, a member of Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, a member of BMI, and the American Composers Alliance since 1974 and served as their President from 2002 to 2011. He is a member of the New York Composer's Circle and has served as Executive Director since 2013. In 2009, he founded the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and he continues as Director.Our final guest for for 2022 was April Centrone. April Centrone is a multi-instrumentalist (specialising in the riqq, darbuka, frame drum, trap drum, and oud), co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra, teacher, composer, film producer and director, and music therapist. She is a Carnegie Hall World Explorer musician and educator, business owner and founder of 10PRL, arts/film/event space on the Jersey Shore. Shehas performed in venues such as the United Nations, NYC Opera House, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has toured throughout Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Far East.Music on this episode:"Aurora" by Adam Reifsteck / Sonic Fear"Building a Desert Blizzard" by Ken Butler"Bagheshri Unbound" by Neel Murgai"Today is a New Day" by Voyagers"25 Years" by Abiodun Oyewole, featurning Baba Don Eaton"Give Me Back My Drum" by William Parker"Warm Arms to Hold You" by Dawoud the Renegade Sufi (a.k.a. Dawoud Kringle)"Inharmonic Fantasy No. 7" by Hubert Howe"New Moon" by April Centrone"Welcome New Iran" by SoSaLa (a.k.a. Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi)(All music used by permission)

"Music is Defined as Anything that is Beautiful, and What Makes Something Beautiful is Music"Our guest for this episode of MFM Speaks Out is free jazz bass master William Parker. Parker was born in the Bronx, New York City, and grew up in the Melrose housing project. His first instruments were the trumpet, trombone and cello. Parker had no formal training as a classical player, but in his youth studied with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis and Wilbur Ware.In the 1980s, he first came to public attention playing with Cecil Taylor. He has also performed and recorded with Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, John Zorn, Hamid Drake, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Oliver Lake, Daniel Carter, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Warren Smith, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Joe Morris, Steve Swell, David S. Ware, Leena Conquest, and many others. He also led several groups, such as the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra and In Order to Survive.His discography is extensive, with dozens of albums as a leader and co-leader, and with the aforementioned artists. They received very favorable reviews from publications such as Downbeat, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Parker is a prominent musician in the New York City experimental jazz scene, where he leads a number of groups and is associated with the Vision Festival, organized by his wife, dancer / choreographer Patricia Nicholson. He is also a member of the Other Dimensions in Music cooperative, and co-founder of the musician's non-profit organization Arts For Art. He has performed at many prestigious venues and music festivals around the world. In addition to double bass, Parker also plays trumpet, tuba, bamboo flutes, shakuhachi, flute, double reeds, Kora, gembri, and donso ngoni.In 2006, Parker was awarded the Resounding Vision Award from Nameless Sound. In March 2007, his book of political thoughts, poems, and musicological essays, Who Owns Music?, was published by Buddy's Knife Jazzedition in Cologne, Germany.  In June 2011, Parker's second book, Conversations, a collection of interviews with notable free jazz musicians and forward thinkers, mainly from the African-American community, was published by RogueArt. Parker is frequently noted for his community dedication, mentorship, and status as "unofficial mayor of the New York improvisational scene." The Village Voice named him "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" and Downbeat has called him "one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz."Topics discussed:His beginnings as a musician and what led him to free jazz, his work with Cecil Taylor, Roy Campbell, Hamid Drake, Jimmy Garrison, and many others, his work and long association with Arts for Art (AFA), the Vision Festival, the Other Dimensions in Music Cooperative, AFA's kinship with other musician's organizations, his thoughts on hip hop, social media, and modern music technology, racism in America, the spiritual essence of music (especially free / improvised music), the future of free jazz, and his experience, thoughts, and advice about the political and economic climate of the the music business.Music on this episode:"Give Me Back My Drum""It's A Great Day to Be Dead""Canyons of Light"All Music by William Parker

This is an unofficial production of Worm, by John “Wildbow” McCrae. Thanks to Billy Bang for narrating Music from Pixabay Thank you for listening.

The Mingus centennial, of course. But first and foremost a celebration of living musicians while they're alive-and-kicking and engaged in their latest projects. The playlist also features Rémi Panossian; Billy Bang; Brian Jackson; Harvest Group; Rosa Brunello; Erik Friedlander; Billy Mohler; and Harry Skoler. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/15869423/Mondo-Jazz (from "BBQ" onward). Happy listening!

This week: Zanussi 5; Lena Bloch; Black Unity Trio; Sera Sepra; Asnakech Worku; Hamelmal Abate; Sun Ra x 2; Nobuo Hara & His Sharps & Flats  (w. Hozan Yamamoto); Billy Bang w. Cao River Singers; Fouad al Kibsi; Botbol; Eric Revis; Sayed Darwish; Théâtre National du Viet-Nam;  much more... Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/14807807/Conference-of-the-Birds and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

The bassist, composer and poet William Parker is the soul of the Lower East Side free jazz scene. A veteran of ensembles led by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Billy Bang and David S. Ware, Parker is also remarkable leader in his own right. In 2021 he released a ten-disc boxed set, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World, Volumes 1-10, featuring compositions in a dizzying range of styles. With his wife and collaborator, the dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker, Parker has turned the annual Vision Festival into one of the defining events in New York creative music. In our conversation, William spoke to me about his early years in the Bronx, how he rose up in the “Loft scene” of the 1970s, his experiences with Cecil Taylor, and his understanding of music as a force of revolutionary social transformation.Links and References:recordings in this episodeMigration of Silence into and out of the Tone WorldI Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis MayfieldPiercing The VeilFarmers by Nature: Love and GhostsCecil Taylor Unit: The EighthBlue Lime Light: A Tribute to Cecil TaylorDavid S. Ware Quartet - SurrenderedJames Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagonlinks and additional music Universal Tonality - Cisco BradleyArts for Art / Vision FestivalWilliam Parker Tone World - New York TimesThe Life and Music of William Parker - Brooklyn RailLisa SokolovDavid S. Ware & ApogeeDavid S. Ware - Passage to MusicAmiri Baraka - Black Music (re: Jazz and the White Critic)Art Taylor - Notes and Tones

The bassist, composer and poet William Parker is the soul of the Lower East Side free jazz scene. A veteran of ensembles led by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Billy Bang and David S. Ware, Parker is also remarkable leader in his own right. In 2021 he released a ten-disc boxed set, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World, Volumes 1-10, featuring compositions in a dizzying range of styles. With his wife and collaborator, the dancer Patricia Nicholson Parker, Parker has turned the annual Vision Festival into one of the defining events in New York creative music. In our conversation, William spoke to me about his early years in the Bronx, how he rose up in the “Loft scene” of the 1970s, his experiences with Cecil Taylor, and his understanding of music as a force of revolutionary social transformation.Links and References:recordings in this episodeMigration of Silence into and out of the Tone WorldI Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis MayfieldPiercing The VeilFarmers by Nature: Love and GhostsCecil Taylor Unit: The EighthBlue Lime Light: A Tribute to Cecil TaylorDavid S. Ware Quartet - SurrenderedJames Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagonlinks and additional music Universal Tonality - Cisco BradleyArts for Art / Vision FestivalWilliam Parker Tone World - New York TimesThe Life and Music of William Parker - Brooklyn RailLisa SokolovDavid S. Ware & ApogeeDavid S. Ware - Passage to MusicAmiri Baraka - Black Music (re: Jazz and the White Critic)Art Taylor - Notes and Tones

This week: Billy Bang; Les Soeurs Diabaté; Super Diamono; Artur Nunes; Odean Pope; Charles Tyler w. the Brus Trio; Tani Tabbal; Chico Freeman Quartet; Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia; Esther Elfasi; Talal Maddah; Hasni; Zahanouia; Mary Halvorson & John Dieterich; much more... Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. PLAYLISTS at SPINITRON: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/14300216/Conference-of-the-Birds   and via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/  We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

This week: Mohammed Rouicha; Selime Bajrami; Nemat Gasi; Poly Panou; Katy Grey; Giota Lydia; Alice Coltrane; John Coltrane; Aniceto do Império & Dona Ivone Lara; Jovelina Perola Negra; Duquende; Giuseppe Logan; "The Group" ( Ahmed Abdullah, Marion Brown, Billy Bang, Sirone, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille); Tani Tabbal Trio; much more...#AliceColtrane #JohnColtrane #TaniTabbal #GiotalYdia #samba #freejazz #romamusic #Greekmusic #rembetika #YugoslaviaMusicAlways FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast:via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere.  In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Conference of the Birds playlists will be updated live, in real-time, on the pop-up player on the WRFI website (for those listening live via WRFI's live-stream), and on Spinitron at the Conference of the Birds page. This will offset any lapses in back-announcing.https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/11694242/Conference-of-the-Birdsand via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG:https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online.Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarksFIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBRContact: confbirds@gmail.com

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)

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)

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 #CreativeMusicPhoto credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

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 #CreativeMusicPhoto credit: One dead president / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

This week: Beth Carvalho; Leci Brandão; Marquinhos Sensação; Salif Keita; Trio 3; Eric Dolphy; Rudresh Mahanthappa;  Matana Roberts; Byard Lancaster; Ritual Trio w. Billy Bang;; Abade al Johar; Potito; Ketama; Mariem Hassan; much more... Always FREE of charge to listen to the radio program on WRFI, or stream, download, and subscribe to the podcast: via PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ via iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Also available at podomatic, Internet Archive, podtail, iheart Radio, and elsewhere. ***Apologies for pronunciation inconsistencies of late! I suffered a broken dental bridge in March for which no dental assistance has been available due to the pandemic. We will restore the more customarily articulate mumbling when circumstances permit.  In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Conference of the Birds will be broadcasting remotely, with little to no back-announcing, for the foreseeable future. Playlists will be updated live, in real-time, on the pop-up player on the WRFI website (for those listening live via WRFI's live-stream), and on Spinitron at the Conference of the Birds page:  https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/10972428/Conference-of-the-Birdsand via the Conference of the Birds page at WRFI.ORG:https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ We will continue to update playlists at confbirds.blogspot.com 24-48 hours of the program's posting  online. Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks FIND WRFI on Radio Garden: http://radio.garden/visit/ithaca-ny/aqh8OGBR Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

F2K Ep. 24 William Parker Among the most prominent New Yorkers in the world of contemporary jazz and creative music, Parker first gained notice playing with the groundbreaking pianist Cecil Taylor in the 1980s and has gone of to release dozens of his own recordings on numerous labels internationally as well as on his on Centering label. Parker has worked extensively with many of the most-uncompromised talents of his time including David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp, Billy Bang, Charles Gayle and Jeanne Lee. For me, he is a favorite artist among musicians worker today with an endlessly searching quality that makes each of his many diverse releases a discovery. Much like his music, I was delighted to find the man to be of big ideas and goods humor and our time together seemed to go by much too soon. We discuss Parker's beginnings on the bass, his love of foreign films, The NYC "Loft Scene" of the 70s and 80s, "The Hallelujah Stage," his late collaborators Billy Bang & David S. Ware, his poetry and other writing, The Vision Festival and future projects. This conversation took place in May of 2014

1. Rocky (Theme) 2. The Champ'(19Sixty Bottle Service Break) 3. Good Kisser - Usher 4. Make Her Say (Beat It Up) - Estelle 5. Up (Beat The P_ssy Up) Doin' It Remix - LoveRance 6. Na Na (Mr. I Like That Remix) - Trey Songz 7. I Don't Want Her - Eric Bellinger ft. Problem 8. Don't Tell 'Em - Jeremih ft. YG 9. Lemonade - Danity Kane ft Tyga 10. Henny (Remix) - Mack Wilds ft French Montana and Mobb Deep 11. Happy (Ted Smooth remix) - Pharrell Williams 12. Candy Rain - Anthony Lewis feat. Billy Bang 13. 2 On (Remix) - Tinashe ft Jim Jones and Drake 14. Loyal - Chris Brown ft Lil Wayne and French Montana 15. Partition - Beyonce 16. Sing For Me - Elijah Blake Feat. Rick Ross and The Game 17. Smoke - 50 Cent ft Trey Songz 18. Thim Slick - Fabolous feat Jeremih 19. My Hitta (Remix) - YG ft Lil Wayne, Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj and Rich Homie Quan 20. Episode - E-40 ft T.I. and Chris Brown 21. Believe Me - Lil Wayne ft Drake 22. Virginia Wolf - The Procussions 23. Know Who You Are - Pharrell Williams ft Alicia Keys Facebook: facebook.com/Stylez2004

Fresh off the Queen Latifah show Billy Bang talks with us about his career and  hot new track with Anthony Lewis" Candy Rain"....

Join Garrett LIVE Tuesday 10pE/7pW when hot hot hot Hip-Hop Renaissance artist Billy BANG joins the show to talk about his movies and music, including his current TOP 40 hit CANDY RAIN! Reality TV Superstar, Kahleel, will be talking about ALL of the DIRT from The Real Houseswives of Atlanta Reunion, and SO MUCH MORE! FOLLOW Rated G Radio, tell your friends & family about the show.  You'll be able to select a REMINDER note to you for each show via e-mail or text and always be connected LIVE when it's showtime! PODCAST: YES!  Click the Podcast button on the bottom right of the show and you can easily get Rated G Radio ON DEMAN!  Listen whenever you want!

Join Garrett LIVE Tuesday 10pE/7pW when hot hot hot Hip-Hop Renaissance artist Billy BANG joins the show to talk about his movies and music, including his current TOP 40 hit CANDY RAIN! Reality TV Superstar, Kahleel, will be talking about ALL of the DIRT from The Real Houseswives of Atlanta Reunion, and SO MUCH MORE! FOLLOW Rated G Radio, tell your friends & family about the show.  You'll be able to select a REMINDER note to you for each show via e-mail or text and always be connected LIVE when it's showtime! PODCAST: YES!  Click the Podcast button on the bottom right of the show and you can easily get Rated G Radio ON DEMAN!  Listen whenever you want!

Drummer Barry Altschul's latest CD is History Of Jazz In Reverse (TUM, 2011) with the FAB Trio featuring Joe Fonda and Billy Bang. In this interview, Altschul talks about growing up in the South Bronx; his roots in the tradition and how he uses them even when playing "free"; and how he achieves a personal sound on the drums. Learn more at myspace.com/barryaltschul.

Drummer Barry Altschul's latest CD is History Of Jazz In Reverse (TUM, 2011) with the FAB Trio featuring Joe Fonda and Billy Bang. In this interview, Altschul talks about growing up in the South Bronx; his roots in the tradition and how he uses them even when playing "free"; and how he achieves a personal sound on the drums. Learn more at myspace.com/barryaltschul.