200 hours of Coltrane ...

[neveronfriday]

Hi everyone,

just heard that from March 11th until march 24th, www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr (Columbia University) will be broadcasting 200 hours of Coltrane. Time to get the drinks mixed.

John Coltrane Festival

  WKCR's jazz department is pleased to announce a two-week festival honoring John Coltrane. Beginning at midnight on Thursday, March 11, and running through Wednesday, March 24, WKCR will broadcast nothing but the music of the great tenor saxophonist. Coming on the heels of our annual birthday broadcasts for Ornette Coleman (March 9) and Bix Beiderbecke (March 10), the festival will form the bulk of an unprecedented sixteen-day broadcast of continuous jazz. During this time, our listeners can expect to enjoy a festival unsurpassed in the breadth and depth of its programming.

  The festival's centerpiece will be a presentation of Coltrane's complete recorded works. The daily schedule will feature two eight-hour blocks of discographical programming; one segment will proceed in chronological order from Coltrane's earliest recordings, while the other will begin with Coltrane's final recording session and work in the opposite direction. On any given single day, then, listeners will have an opportunity to hear both the wide stylistic variety of Coltrane's music and the unity of his genius. Throughout this entire presentation, extreme rarities will be presented alongside Coltrane's acknowledged masterpieces, some of the most enduring works of any recorded music.

  In addition to this discographical survey, time will be set aside every afternoon for special programming. Our expert jazz DJs will offer in-depth presentations of various facets of Coltrane's legacy, including many conversations with Coltrane's surviving musical and personal associates. The overnight hours, too, will break from the discographical presentation, featuring more thematic presentations of Coltrane's music. Finally, the first and final days of the festival will offer us a chance to preview and review what comes in between, distilling Coltrane's staggeringly large body of work to its essence.

  Please see below for the general outline of the festival's daily schedule. Be advised that this plan is hardly set in stone; it will become more definite as the festival nears, but a broadcast of this magnitude must always allow for some flexibility. In the coming weeks, Coltrane enthusiasts are encouraged to listen to WKCR's regular jazz programming for the latest festival updates. Information will also be available at our website, www.wkcr.org. Above all, we invite all of New York City and the world beyond to tune in to 89.9 FM from March 11 through March 25 for WKCR's John Coltrane Festival.

Daily Schedule:

12 am - 5 am:  Overnight Specials

5 am - 1 pm:  Chronological Discography

1 pm - 4 pm:  Interviews and Special Programming

4 pm - 12 am:  Reverse Discography

Cheers!

[Hardbopjazz]

Usually WKCR has these broadcasts on the artists' birthdays. Trane's birthday is in Sept. It will be worth tuning into to this.

[Lazaro Vega]

I've read that they had transmitter problems in September, so this is a re-scheduled event.