Joseph Celli - Radio Host

10/27/2024

Music for Smart People with Big Ears
Mon., 10/28, 9am-12
Only on WPKN 89.5fm Streaming @ WPKN.org
(photo Brandon Ross, Kris Davis, Min Xiao-Fen)

10/22/2024

Musicians Speak
Interviews & podcasts with innovative musicians expanding the genre with Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Kris Davis, Joe Morris, James Brandon Lewis, Marilyn Crispell, Jason Kao Hwang, Mary Halvorson, Wadada Leo Smith, Phill Niblock, Jen Shyu, Dickie Landry, Min Xiao-Fen & more @

Joseph Celli: an American based inter-media artist... boldly experimental, with sound as central to his work.

10/22/2024

Musicians Speak
Interviews & podcasts with innovative musicians expanding the genre with Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Kris Davis, Joe Morris, James Brandon Lewis, Marilyn Crispell, Jason Kao Hwang, Mary Halvorson, Wadada Leo Smith, Phill Niblock, Jen Shyu, Dickie Landry, Min Xiao-Fen & more @ www.josephcelli.org
Musicians Speak
Interviews & podcasts with innovative musicians expanding the genre with Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Kris Davis, Joe Morris, James Brandon Lewis, Marilyn Crispell, Jason Kao Hwang, Mary Halvorson, Wadada Leo Smith, Phill Niblock, Jen Shyu, Dickie Landry, Min Xiao-Fen & more @ www.josephcelli.org

10/17/2024

Jazz Masters & Innovators @ WWUH 91.3fm, M-F, 9am-12
Tue-Fri, 9pm-12

10/17/2024

Jazz Masters & Innovators @
WWUH 91.3fm,
M-F, 9am-12
Tue-Fri, 9pm-12

10/12/2024

Ancient Sounds + Modern Mastery = Asian Sound Revolution
Blending ancient aesthetics with cutting-edge creativity, this trio of internationally acclaimed musicians - Jin Hi Kim, Min Xiao-Fen, and Susie Ibarra - utilize traditional Asian instruments, stylized vocal techniques, electronic effects, and improvisation to make a musical style all their own. Catch their performance at UChicago's Logan Center on October 13th (Sunday)for an afternoon of music you won't forget!

10/05/2024

Please join me for an interview & music of violinist, composer, improvisor Jason Kao Hwang as he discusses his explorations & emergence in the NY improv loft scene, the Asian American music movement, his recording with Karl Berger, and his recent solo pizzicato violin release, Silhouettes.
Mon., Oct. 7, 9-12am, WPKN 89.5fm, Streaming @ WPKN.org
Thur., Oct. 10, 9-1pm, WWUH 91.3fm, Streaming @ WWUH.org
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09/30/2024

Rare Opportunity - Only 3 US Performances
National Bunraku Theatre of Japan making its triumphant arrival in NYC for the first time in 32 years! BUNRAKU has been designated as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. National Bunraku Theater – Tuesday, Oct. 1, 8:00pm Quick Center, Fairfield University

09/09/2024

Experimental, improvisation, new, electronic, drone, free-jazz, avant-garde, music.
Mon., 9/9 @ 9am Only on WPKN 89.5fm Streaming @ WPKN.org

09/05/2024

Please join me for Esperanza Spalding, Ches Smith, Miguel Zenon, Susan Alcorn, Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell, Annie Chen, Marilyn Crispell, James Brandon Lewis, Min Xiao-Fen, Robert Vincs, Mary Halvorson, Don Pullen, Richard Paske, Ornette Coleman & more!
Only on WWUH 91.3fm & Streaming @ WWUH.org. Thurs., Sept. 5, 9-12pm. (photo E. Spalding, M. Zenon, O. Coleman)

08/07/2024

Improvisation! Jazz! Creative Music!
Please join me for Ella Fitzegerald, Ingrid Laubrock, Marilyn Crispell, Jen Shyu, Tomeka Reid, Jin Hi Kim, Mary Halvorson, Susan Alcorn, Kris Davis, Sylvie Courvoisier, Angelica Sanchez, & more!
Thurs., 8/8/24, 9-12pm
WWUH 91.3fm or Streaming @ WWUH.org
(photos: Halvorson/Courvoisier, Jin Hi Kim, Tomeka Reid, Kris Davis)

07/25/2024

Please join me for an interview with saxophonist/ composer James Brandon Lewis as he discusses his music and we hear various selections from his recordings. Also on the show Dan Weiss, Kris Davis, Jello Roll Morton, Kiran Ahluwalia, Ricahrd Paske, Bill Frisell, Duke Ellington, Matthew Shipp, Brandon Ross & more. Thurs., 7/25, 9pm, WWUH 91.3fm or Streaming @ WWUH.org or Fri., 7/26, 4pm, WPKN 89.5fm or Streaming @ WPKN.org

07/21/2024

Music for Smart People with Big Ears
Northern Cree Pow-Wow Singers, Pakistani Kiran Ahluwalia with roots in Sufi, Qawalli, Ghazal, and Punjabi folk, blind & homeless street musician Moondog, Master Lou Harrison, electronic pioneer Joel Chadabe, the Songbook’s by John Cage, Julius Eastman’s Wild Up release and the newest release from Ethel, James Brandon Lewis, & Brandon Ross’s new Phantom Station.
Mon., July 22, 9am-12 noon
Only on WPKN 89.5fm; Streaming @ WPKN.org
(Photos Brandon Ross, MoonDog, Julius Eastman)

07/07/2024

Music for Smart People with Big Ears

MoonDog, Kronos QT, Kiran Ahluwalia, Joel Chadabe, Ghost Train Orch., Philip Glass, Joe Morris & Wadada Leo Smith, Min Xiao-Fen, Dan Weiss, Gene Coleman, Jen Shyu, & more!
WPKN 89.5fm Streaming @ WPKN.org Mon., July 8, 9am

07/04/2024

Independence Day Improvisations
Dan Weiss, Arturo O’Farrill, Kiran Ahluwalia, Ghost Train Orch., Joe Morris & Wadada Leo Smith, Chris Potter, Annie Chen, Richard Paske, Mary Halvorson, Anthony Davis, Matthew Shipp & more!
Only on WWUH 91.3fm or Streaming @ WWUH.org
Thur., July 4, 9pm-midnight
(Photo: K. Ahluwalia, M. Shipp)

06/11/2024

Improvisation International
A program of improvisation, jazz & creative music with international musicians from Cuba (Chucho Valdes), Pakistan (Rez Abbasi), China (Min Xiao-Fen), Puerto Rico (Miguel Zenon), Japan (Hiromi), Italy (Enrico Rava), India(Kiran Ahulwalia), Mexico (Patricia Brennan), South Africa (Hugh Masekela) & more! Tues., June 11, 8:30-11:30pm WPKN 89.5fm, Streaming @ WPKN.org
(photos: M. Zenon, K. Ahluwalia, H. Masekela)