7/4 Posted January 1, 2012 Report Posted January 1, 2012 http://wkcr.org Sam Rivers memorial broadcast until midnight 1/1/2012. Quote
Enterprise Server Posted January 9, 2012 Report Posted January 9, 2012 Wow! Sam rivers was a fantastic artist. Loved his original playing and compositions. Sadly, I missed this one.... Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted January 10, 2012 Report Posted January 10, 2012 Did they play anything rare, or that hasn't been issued commercially? Quote
Christiern Posted January 10, 2012 Report Posted January 10, 2012 Wouldn't it be nice if they aired less necrojazz and scheduled similar marathon tributes to musicians who are still with us? Then they could actually benefit from them. When an artist I admire passes away, my first instinct is not to dig out his/her recordings and listen to music that has been available to me all along, but ignored. I notice here that the now-I-gotta-listen thing is quite common. Spotlights somehow make more sense when when aimed at the living. Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted January 10, 2012 Report Posted January 10, 2012 Did they play anything rare, or that hasn't been issued commercially? A few days after the memorial the played several hours of convert tapes from their vaults. The ones with Cecil Taylor were beyond words. Quote
7/4 Posted January 10, 2012 Author Report Posted January 10, 2012 Did they play anything rare, or that hasn't been issued commercially? A few days after the memorial the played several hours of convert tapes from their vaults. The ones with Cecil Taylor were beyond words. On the Jan 2 evening Jazz program I heard a bunch of unreleased archival recordings. Quote
Stefan Wood Posted January 10, 2012 Report Posted January 10, 2012 Wouldn't it be nice if they aired less necrojazz and scheduled similar marathon tributes to musicians who are still with us? Then they could actually benefit from them. When an artist I admire passes away, my first instinct is not to dig out his/her recordings and listen to music that has been available to me all along, but ignored. I notice here that the now-I-gotta-listen thing is quite common. Spotlights somehow make more sense when when aimed at the living. A couple of years ago WKCR did a marathon broadcast of Sam Rivers's music, culminating in a live concert with Dave Holland & (I think) Barry Altschul. So they do pay attention to the living, though they should do more. Quote
Lazaro Vega Posted January 10, 2012 Report Posted January 10, 2012 That's right -- a great reunion concept. The concert was at Columbia University. There was a boot of that floating around for awhile. Quote
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