Conference of the Birds Podcast
Weekly podcast of music from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle-East, and Europe with an emphasis on cross-cultural exploration and experimentation. Hosted by Stephen Cope.
Conference of the Birds, 6-13-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vesna Pisaroviç (Croatian avant-jazz-folk vocals); Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio; a Pakistani Khayal from Ustad Saami; Bulgarian vocal music from Stamatka Kirilova & Staro Selo; Balouchi benju maestro Abd-ur-Ramian Surizehi; William Parker Quartet w. Leena Conquest; Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band; Greek songs from Gabriel Pantelides & Takis Vrakatselos; cante jondo from Duquende, Agujetas, Lebrijano (doing Romani); Ghanian Highlife from K. Frimpong; Nigerian pop from Nelly Uchendu; Algerian sax player Fred Khodja; Algerian Rai from Abdulrahmane Dealt; from Morocco: Abdelouahab Doukkali & Abderrahmane Djalti; so much, much more.
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Conference of the Birds, 5-30-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vintage Indian Film music x 2 (Shanta Apte & Suraiya); Hindustani vocalist Shubha Mudgal;Raga Shuddah Kalyan performed by Gangubai Hangal; new music from Chad Khoury; new music from Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson; Kyriakos Sfetsas vintage Greek fusion); jazz from UK: Elton Dean; Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri reprise (radically) George Enescu's famous Oedipe; Freedom Art Quartet (the name says it); Macedonian hard bop from Dusko Goykovich; neo-Rembetika from Dimitris Mystakidis and Kalafatis Kostas: Balkan song from Vidanka Djordjievska and Petranka Kostadinova; Albert Ayler reawakened by Jukka Orma, Pepa Päivinen, Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Ville Rauhala & Simo Laihonenand; saxophonist Zoh Am...
Conference of the Birds, 5-16-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Vintage dance music from l'Orchestre Massako; vocalist Namassa Dioubate from Mali; also from Mali: early recording of the legendary Rail Band; vocalists Mariam Kouyate & Gaoussou Kouyate from Guinea; also from Guinea:the legendary Camayenne Sofa; new music from Pitch, Rhythm, & Consciousness; Toto Necessitè & Etoile du soir from Haïti; fado from Rute Soares; Susana Baca, Eva Ayallon from Peru; Abdel Gadir Salim from Sudan; salsa from Hector Lavoe, Salsa Suprema, others; poetry & song from Sera Serpa; post-bop fro,m Wilbur Ware; long piece of cha'abi from Kamel Bourdib; and (as always) so much, much more.
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Conference of the Birds, 5-9-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Qawma music from Hasan al-Ajami & Ahmed Ushaysh (Yemen); I. Wayan Sudiarsa Pacet w. Gamelan Suling Gita Samara (Bali); Lebanese vocalist Maya al Khaldi; recent compositions from Jen Shyu and David Leon (USA); trombonist/composer Joseph Daley; Kurdistani pop from De'Lori; Kai Winding & Curtis Fuller (more trombone); Tchangodei w. Itaru Oki & Kent Carter; the inimitable Lucha Reyes; bop from Dexter Gordon; jazz vocalists Mary La Rose & Marianne Solivan; Albert Ayler; Rajasthani music from Anwar Khan and others; Roma song from Trio Salvej; Bulgarian legend Ivo Papasov; Julio Benavente Diaz from Peru; and (as always) so much, much more...
Conference of the Birds, 5-2-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS:Persian piano improvisation from Morteza Mahjoubi; Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell (piano duo); piano trio: Landaeus - de Heney - Osgood; Eric Dolphy goes solo; Charles Mingus & group in Argentina; new music from cellist Violeta García w. Camilo Ángeles; Balinese pianist U Yee Nwe; new work from Jon Irabagon; Carnatic vocal work from Roopa Mahadevan; Tulipa Negra & Afrika Star (from Cabo Verde); salsa from Brooklyn Sounds; vintage Congolese rumba from l'Orchestra Bella Bella; and (as always) so much, much more.
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Conference of the Birds, 4-25-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Blue Reality Quartet; Kash Killion & The Joel Futterman/Ike Levin Trio; Dorothy Ashby; Dewey Rodman w. Ed Blackwell (lots of new/avant jazz); Carnatic vocal work from S. Sowmya; Bhimsen Joshi (hindustani vocal); cante jondo from Enrique "El Extremeño"; Oula Baba Greek song); cha'abi from Akli Yahyaten, Dahmane el Harrache, & Boudjema el Ankis; bop from Elmo Hope (live at Rykers); compositionl jazz from Charles Bracken; brand new music from Jess Sa Bah; and (as always) so much, much more. (Encore mashup from March 2020, with a few new pieces mixed in...).
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Conference of the Birds, 4-11-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Algerian cha'abi singer Mohsaïd Oubelaïd; Moroccan cha';abi from Abdelkader Rachdi Balkan song from Kurbeti. Saban Bajkramoviç; Roma song from Vera Bila & Sendreiovci; Experimental Hungarian song from Kampec Dolores;l vocal jazz from Jeri Brown; David S. Ware as well as Zoh Aba and Sun Ra Arkestra; West African vocals from Salon Camara and Lassana Hawk Cissoko; Brazilian vocals from Marina Iris; samba from Bezzera da Silva; flamenco from David de Arahal & David El Galli; Camarón; and Jimenez Rejano; and (as always) so much, much more.
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Conference of the Birds, 4-4-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: violinist India Cooke; bop from Joe Henderson as well as Jackie McLean; new music from Karl Evangelista (w. Bobby Bradford et al); Lebanese vocalist Oumeima el Khalil; Lebanese legend Farid al Atrache; from Turkey: Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek; Mediha Şen Sancakoğlu; Gaye Su Akyol; Indonesian pop from Java (Ida Laila & Mus Mulyadi); recent music rom Md After Hussain & PAQ; from Poland, Wallow Zimpel's Saagara; Iqbal Bano (vintage Indian ghazal).; salsa from Orqueta Soledad; Mon Rivera; as always, so much, much more.
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Conference of the Birds, 3-28-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Bembeya Jazz National (vintage); expoerimental Yugoslav folk-jazz from vocalist Vesna Pisarović; Gabriel Zucker; Uyghur Musicians from Xinjiang; new music from Joe Fonda Quartet w. Wadada Leo Smith et al.; Kovász; Nour Symon; Phelimuncasi (experiemtnal hip-hop from Africa); Wadada Leo Smith salutes Angela Davis; Landaeus - de Heney - Osgood; Ernst Reijseger w. Harmen Fraanje & Mola Sylla; M'ma Sylla (vintage) with Le Rossignol de Guinée, from Guinea ; cha'abi from Amar al Achab; Thelonious Monk; Ngabaka Group as well as Martin Kayo (from Central African Republic); Rai from Chaba Zohra; and, as always, so much, much more.<...
Conference of the Birds, 3-14-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Malian vocalist Coumba Sibide; vintage congolese pop from Mpongo Love; soukous from Josky Kiambukuta & Madilu System; rumba congoliase from Emeneya & Victoria Eleison; cante jondo from Jose Mercé, Fernanda de Utrera, Potito (erstwhile flamenco nuevo vocalist) & others; samba from Noite Ilustrada, Maysa, Jorge Ben Jor & MPB from Nara Leão & others; border corrido from Las Madrugadres; Giorgio Gallini performed by Tiziana Ghiglioni & (of course) Giorgio Gallini; Vera Bila & Kale (Czech Roma song); New etude for solo saxoophone from Ben Solomon; and, as always, so much, much more.
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Conference of the Birds, 2-28-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: cante jondo (pop) from Love y Manuel as well as Naike Ponce and pianist Melodie Gimard w. El Chozas de Jerez (vocalist) Abdel Karim Alkabli from Sudan; Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh; Jason Moran (piano) w. Milford Graves (percussion); Patricia Brennan Sextet; Nicole Mitchell w. Ballaké Sissoko; from Mali: Papa & Kandia Kouyaté; Hawa Dramé; Warda in duet w. Abade al Johar; Fado from Carlos do Carmo, Lucilia do Carmo, Amalia Rodrigues; Sally Gates w. Steve Hirsch & Daniel Carter; from Côte d'Ivoire: Pierre Sandwidi; Philly Joe Jones reprises Gershwin; vintage Congolese music from Kwamy et son...
Conference of the Birds, 2-21-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: vintage Roy Haynes (revisted); Sun Ra w. Walt Dickerson (piano/vibes duo); new jazz from Jesica Jones Quartet; Tajik Disco from Khurmo Shirinova; experimental electric(ish) jazz from Janel Leptin as well as Mendoza Hoff Revels and Drazek Fuscaldo (erstwhile Moca Sica, w. Hamid Drake, Tatsu Aoki, Thymme Jones, and Joshua Abrams); new Pakistani vocal raga from Ustad Saami; Uzbek song from K. Khadzhiev; experimental pop from Asa Horvitz, Carmen Quill, Ariadne Randall & Wayne Horvitz; vintage North African music/songs, including L'Orchestre National Mauritanien, Salim Halal (in Morocco). Dahmane el Harrache (Algerian cha'abi); Chef Nasro (Algerian Rai via...
Conference of the Birds, 2-7-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Congolese rumba from Moutouari Côme Kosmos; Youlou Mabiala; salsa from Raphy Leavitt; from Haiti: Ti Band L'avenir; new jazz from Kevin Sun; Ben Solomon; Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band; Beth Custer; vintage bop/rumba from Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab; Roma song from Pitsa Negri, Shrepsa Berisha, Bajrami Selime; raga from Nirmala Rajesekar; new music from Michael Bisio; Edobayashi music from Hozonkai; poetry & song from Sara Serpa; and of course, so 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...
Conference of the Birds, 1-31-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Positive Knowledge; Sara Serpa w. Onisephone Nembe; James Brandon Lewis; Booker Ervin; Manzanita; el Lebrijano; Orquesta Aragon; Orquesta Ymbo; Finaçon; Chaou Abdelkader; Roberto Anglero; Kerfala Kante; and of course, so much, much more...
Episode culled from earlier programs ca. 2021.***
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:
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Conference of the Birds, 1-3-25
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new/recent creative/improvised music from Henry Taylor; Kim Cass; Matt Mitchell w. Kate Gentile; Joel Ross;; Linda Sikhaklhane; as well as Joy Guidry; vintage music from Michael Cosmic, Phil. Musra, World's Experience Orchestra; vintage samba from Paulinho da Viola; Elton Medeiros; Aliade Costa; Moroccan melhûn (sung poetry) from Cheikh Mwijo; new Arabic song from SHIRAN (w/ El Khat); raga (vocal) Fateh Ali Khan; new music from Chad Fowler, George Cartwright, Kelley Hurt, Christopher Parker, Luke Stewart, Steve Hirsch, Zoh Ambah; oud solo from Iran (Mohammadreza Ebrahimi); Tuti Island Band (from Sudan); and of course, so...
Conference of the Birds, 12-27-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: poetry & music from Sara Serpa; Oum Koulsum; Xmas redux from, Roland Kirk; Max Roach x 2 (w. Rev. Jeremiah Wright); Horoya Band National (from Guinea); salsa from. Adalberto Santiago & Orquesta Cimarrón; Karl Evangelista's Apura; Sababa 5 w. Yureka; Steve Lacy Sextet; Lucas Niggli Zoom Ensemble; and of course, so 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:
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Conference of the Birds, 12-20-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Afghani legend Nashenas; Baul singer Arati Biswas; Shatr Collective (from Lebanon); Moroccan pop group Raja; Hüseyin Ertunç; Booker T. ; poetry & music from Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez/Gerald Cleaver; Alexis Cuadrado; Roma singer Ljiljana Buttler; Eva Ayllón & Diego El Cigala; Ana Firmino; Coltrane Quartet; McCoy Tyner w/ Joe Henderson (from the archives); Simaro Ndomanueno Lutumba; Franco; and of course, so 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 PODB...
Conference of the Birds, 11-29-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: music from Gaza: Henna Haj Hassan, Ensemble musical de Palestine,Saied Silbak w. Rola Azar; from Lebannon: Fairouz and Fouad al Hakim; salsa from Ray Peréz & Impacto Crea; poet/ scriptwriter/bolero exponent Sylvia Rexach (from Puerto Rico); Kaiti Grey reprises Tsitsanis; new poetry/music/word from Irreversible Entanglments and Cleaver, Lopez, Moten; Albanian song reprised by Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis & Barry Guy w. Ramón Lopez; pianist Aruán Ortiz; Lusofonia: new Elza Soares (Brazil), from Cabo Verde: Rosa Mestra (also new), Nancy Vieira (also new); choral bop from Andrew Hill; more hard bop from Odean...
Conference of the Birds, 11-22-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Jenny Schienman (jazz) Ahmed Monica (Algerian pop), Zy the Way (poetry/song from Taiwan); Archie Sheep w. Jeanne Lee; Balkan Song from Zajazi Trio; Dragica Radosavljevic; hard bop from Leo Wright, Charlie Persip; Egyptian vocalist Maryem Saleh; Greek song (Laikos) from Kalafatis Kostas, Antzela Grekal; Experimental Perisan music from Shawn Tavakkol; Mat Maneri, Gordon Grdina, Marco Colonna, Giulia Cianca & Mario Cianca collaborate; extended Anthony Braxton composition; Pipet L.(from Java); experiemtnal pop from Etienne de la Sayette, Wild Horses Orchestra & Mrs Kang; drummer Whit Dickey w. Quartet; much, much more...
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Conference of the Birds, 11-1-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Asher Gamedze; new music from Los Speyer; new music from Kenneth Jimenez; rendition of Raga Shree (on the rudra veena) by Madhuvani Pal; vocal rendition of Raga Nandkauns by Parween Sultana; vintage Roscoe Mitchell (w. Sound and Space Ensemble); Peruvian song from Arturo "Zambo" Cavero; salsa from Johnny Pacheco; from Cuba: Rumbavana, Eulogio Abreu, Daisy Diaz; Ikue More, Okkyung Lee, & DJ Olive; samba from Martinho da Vila & Mart'nália; Titina from Cabo Verde; Halit Araboğlu (from Turkey); from Algeria: Dahmane el Harrache (cha'abi); Cherif Zârour (Arabo-Andalous); gulf singer Mohammed Omer; much, much...
Conference of the Birds, 10-25-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Ekonting music (Senegal) from Adama Sambou & Ejam Kasa; Lusophone pop from Bandé-Gamboa; new music from Tarbaby; vintage jazz from Frank Gordon; Mark Izu & Group; new trio music from Kris Davis; Bojongkoneng village ensemble from Java; classical Egyptian music from Mohamad Al Dayekh & Mohamad Ghazi; Libyan pop from Fahad Al Kubaisi; from Morocco: Fatna Bent Lhoucine & El Hammouniya; much, much more...
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Conference of the Birds, 2-9-24
Original air date: 2-9-24 (abbreviated, 2 hour episode due to technical malfunction):
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Nass El Ghiwane (from Morocco); Gordon Grdina's The Marrow; Cecil McBee w/ Sextet; Rodney Chapman; Namibian song (x 2); Angolan legend Belita Palma (vintage), Bonga (vintage), and Ruy Mingas (new); Cape Verdean vocalists/composers Jorge Humberto (recent) and José Carlos Schwartz (vintage); Congolese rumba from Orchestra Lipua Lipua and Sam Mangwana; Roy Brooks live; 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 MUSI...
Conference of the Birds, 9-20-24
Original air date: 2-16-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Ruiqi Wang; Etenesh Wassie w. Mathieu Sourisseau (experimental Ethiopian vocal/bass duo); from the Maghreb: Hedi Lajmi, Saloua; Slimane Azem; Salim Halali; British jazz from Elton Dean Quintet; George Gruntz and ensemble; Oratnitza; virtuoso guitarist Ousmane Kouyate and band from Mali; Fatoumata Diawara; Kaniba Oulé Kouyaté; Arthur Blythe; Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell); much, much more...
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Conference of the Birds, 9-6-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new music from Mali Obomsawin w. Magdalena Abrego & Allison Bunk; Tako Taki (music from Japan); Sundanese music from L. S. Kancana Sari Bandung; Detty Kurnia (pop from Bali); Congolese disco from Vibro Success Intercontinental Orchesatra; free jazz/experimental quartet Tulpas (from Mexico City); Astor Piazzola (nuevo tango); Mario Pavone; Sam Rivers on flutes; Anthony Braxton on flute (+ winds and reeds); Eastern European Roma music song from Dil'Dorova Maisara, Bedrije Misin & Ansambl Bracé Koko, & Nehat Gasi; healing trance music from Baluchistan; Salim Halali in Algeria; Abida Parveen (Pakistani soufi) w. Lofti Bouchnak (from Tunisia); straight ahead jazz (live i...
Conference of the Birds, 8-2-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Samba from Agepê, Dona Ivan Lara, Moyseis Marques; South African jazz from Dudu Pukwana & Spear, McCoy Mrubata (new); Curtis Amy; Ensemble Xu Zeng (instrumental music from China; Sabata 5 & Eureka (from Japan); Farah Kadour; cante jondo from Fosforito, Carmen Linares, El Torta; Phil Cochran; Raga Janpuri from Kishori Amonkar; much more...
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Conference of the Birds, 7-26-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Nadaswaram music (Carnatic) from Namagiripettai Krishnan; Yusuf Lateef (vintage); Japanese jazz from Toshiyuki Miyama & the New Herd; new music from composer and vocalist Ruiqi Wang; new piano & electronics from Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly; solo piano from Matthew Shipp & Marilyn Crispell; new music from Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio; Ikui Doki and Sofia Jernberg in collaboration; Silvia Bolognesi w. Dudu Kouate & Griffin Rodriguez; samba from Gilson Nascimento, MBP from Elza Soares; Teresa Cristina; Wanda Sá; Manuel Valera New Cuban Express Big Band; Cuban salson from Linda Leida; and, as ever, much, much more!
Catch the BIRDS live o...Conference of the Birds, 6-28-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Gulf pop from Abass Al Badri; our from Arman Teboul; Carpathian gnawa from Tariqa; gnawa from Etoile Gnawa; Ava Mendoza & Dave Sewelson; from, 1963, live: Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Clifford Jordan,Don Cherry; jazz from Archie Shepp w. Kahil el Zabar's Ritual Trio; Minee Coskun (Turkey) and Takes Vrakatselos (Greece); Dhoffir (from Grand Camaore), Nancy Viera from Cape Verde; Oumou Sangaré from Mali; from Kenya: Mbaraka Mwinshehe & the Morogoro Jazz Band; World Bass Violin Ensemble; Hadi Salia from Sudan; Indian pop from Malika Pukraj; salsa from Sonora Ponceña, Orquesta Colon, and Adalberto Alvarez; and , as ever, much, much m...
Conference of the Birds, 6-21-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: bop from Dick Griffin; Thad Jones & the Prestige All-Stars; saxophone virtuosity from Nicole Glover; Baka polyphony; polyphonies from. the Solomon Islands; from South Africa: T. Y. Boys, Mahlatini & the Mahotella Queens, and Somi; Kerfala Brothers & Bonga (from Angola); Johnny Dyani solo; Louis Moholo's Viva la Black; Mahmoud El Idrissi (Moroccan pop singer/composer); Haja El Hamdaouia (Moroccan vocalist); Eva Salina perfroms Bajramoviç; Karen Barca Quartet; 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 MUS...
Conference of the Birds, 6-7-24
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 e...
Conference off the Birds, 5-31-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: John Handy; flamenco and.or cante jondo from Rocio Jurado; Chocolate; Aurora Vargas; Pansequito; La Macanita; new music from Bill Cole's Untempoered Ensemble; vintage Dewey Redman w. Modular Dynamics; from UzbekistanL: Mariam Suttarova; Konembou musicians from Tchad; Sudanese pop from Mohammed Wardi (north) and Gordon Koang (south); classical Egyptian vocalist Aziza Galal; from Greece: Sophia Votta; James Carter solo; nd 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...
Conference of the Birds, 5-17-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Sawt music from Bahrain w. Muhammed bin Faris & Ensemble; lots of Lusofonia: from Brazil: Marilia Medalha, Nelson Gonçalves, The Ipanemas, Elza Soares, and others; from Angola: Belita Palma and Teta Lando; new jazz from Annie Chen; experimental jazz/.gnaoua from Joachim Kühn, Majid Bekkas & Ramon Lopez; new Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones; Hsaing Waing music from Burma; vintage music from the Star Band of Senegal; from Mali: Akofa Akoussah; pianist Matthew Shipp, solo; Etoile De Namaco (vintage West African political authenticité); Saïd Outajjajt (Moroccan Rrways music): and of course, much, much more!!!!B
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Conference of the Birds, 5-10-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Ava Mendoza & Dave Sewelson; Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG; Herbie Nichols himself, w/ trio; Mal Waldron w. Steve Lacy; Romanian song from Dona Dumitru Siminica, as well as Dumitru Ridescu & Mituța Ridescu; Balkan music from Ilieve Glogovac Vaska and Ivo Popasov; Anthony Braxton's #296 (w/ quintet;) Algerian cha'abi from Amar el Achab, Cheikh el Hasnaoui, Dahmane el Harrache; Lebanese song from Ziyad Al Rahbani; Liba Villavecchia Trio w. Luis Vicente; Antillean flute from Max Cilla; Cecil Taylor's Orchestra of Two Continents; Rumbavana (from Cuba) as well as Santeria/ Rumba from Martha Galarraga and others; and of cour...
Conference of the Birds, 5-3-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: new Farrah Kadoor; archival Alice Coltrane: Dominik Bukowski Quartet; Gulf singer Talah Maddah; Ta'arab from Zuhula Swaleh; from Vision Fest: Eri Yamamoto, Chad Fowler, William Parker, Steve Hirsh; quartet music from Lisa Mezzacappa, Vinny Golia, Marco Eniedi, Vijay Anderson; new vocal music from Ruiqi Wang; Lebanese pop from Googoosh; Bossa from Rosa Passos, Nara Leão; Congolese song from Franklin Boukoka; Hank Jones w/ Check Tidiane Seck & the Mandinkas; 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 W...
Conference of the Birds, 4-19-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Mali Obomsawin; Girija Devi & Ustad Bismillah Khan; Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats & Hozan Yamamoto; Louis Belogenis; Moroccan sufis Confrérie des Aïssawa in Tunisi a; cante jondo from Mariana de Cádiz, Love y Manuel, José Mercé; Greek song from Vassilis Tsitsanis and Poly Panou; Vangelis Soukas (clarinet from Epirius); The Caresser satirizes Christopher Columbus; Lassana Hawa Cissokho from Mali; Ken McIntyre; David Murray; 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...
Conference of the Birds, 4-5-24
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian vocalist Maryam Saleh w. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, Maurice Louca; Pakistani vocalist Aroof Aftab w. Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily; rembetika (past and present) from Pasatempo w. Christos Govetas & Marcos Vamvakaris; bop from Sonny Clark; from the archives: John Tchicai, Garrison Fewell, Charlie Kohlhase, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart; new Les Amazones d'Africa; newly re-released Rail Band; l'Ensemble Instrumental Du Mali (feat. Nantenedie Kamissoko); Congolese soukous from Les Wanyika; new LA jazz from Billy Mohler; Sathima Bea Benjamin; Algerian raï from the greats: Cheb Hasni & Cheb Nasro; music from Greece, Mali, Congo/Zaïre, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and, of cou...
