The Checkout - Interviews Podcast
Summary: Discover Music with The Checkout - new music and the people making it, from WBGO.
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Podcasts:
The alto saxophonist and composer offers his most ambitious recording to date, "Mise en Abime," an exploration of "spectral jazz" for octet with WBGO's Simon Rentner.
We remember composer and pianist Horace Silver, who passed away June 18, 2014, through his music and conversation with Gary Walker in 1999.
George Wein, pianist and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, talks with Tim Wilkins about the lineup for the 2014 festival and his musical inspirations.
Bassist and NEA Jazz Master Charlie Haden, who died July 11, 2014, talks about his musical inspirations, collaborations and career with WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton from a conversation in 1997.
The trumpeter shares a song he wrote in his dreams, talks Debussy, praises cellist Rubin Kodheli, and remembers Horace Silver with WBGO's Simon Rentner at FIJM 2014.
Composer, pianist, and organist Vincent Rehel shares music from Images du lendemain with WBGO's Simon Rentner at FIJM 2014.
Singer Jose James talks about his Blue Note album "While You Were Sleeping" with Simon Rentner.
The Canadian-born bandleader Darcy James Argue talks with Simon Rentner about his 18-musician suite "Brooklyn Babylon," an allegory about the city's gentrification.
Pianist Helen Sung talks with Gary Walker about her new album "Anthem For A New Day."
Pianist Chick Corea talks with Josh Jackson about "Portraits," his new Concord album with children's songs and music by Scriabin and Monk.
Trumpeter Takuya Kuroda talks with Josh Jackson about his Blue Note album "Rising Son" and performs live at WBGO.
Pianist Vijay Iyer talks with Josh Jackson about his new ECM album "Mutations" and his approaches to composing for orchestra, piano and electronic instruments.
Baritone saxophonist Fred Ho talks with Tim Wilkins about his life, career and music. The Chinese-American Ho who passed away April 12, 2014, was a passionate advocate of "Afro-Asian Liberation Music."
Cassandra Wilson talks with Simon Rentner about "Blue Light Til Dawn," her 1993 crossover album which featured songs by Robert Johnson, Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell.
Singer Cecile McLorin Salvant talks with WBGO's Michael Bourne about "WomanChild," her album which features songs from "John Henry" to Bert WIlliams' "Nobody."
