Brian Carpenter : News

I'm excited to announce a special radio program I will be hosting this Friday on the work and career of composer/bandleader/multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who passed away last December at the age of 88. The show will air this Friday, March 2nd at 7-10PM EST on WZBC 90.3FM Boston College. You can listen online via streams provided at the link below.

Sam Rivers was a huge inspiration to me during my time in Florida. His career covered many areas of music over the course of several decades. And over the course of several interviews, this program has evolved into an exciting oral history of the music, a conversation on improvisation, composition, and community. For those who have to miss the program on Friday, it will be archived for two weeks afterward and I'll send a link (when I have one) for those who would like one. I hope you'll tune in Friday night for the adventure.

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Rivers and Rhythms: A Sam Rivers Retrospective
Friday March 2, 2012
7-10 PM EST
WZBC 90.3 FM
Boston College
Listen to the live broadcast online at http://wzbc.org/listen.html
via RealPlayer or other media players
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617-552-4686

Hosted and Produced by Brian Carpenter
Co-hosted by Allan Chase and Russ Gershon

Special Guest Interviews:
Barry Altschul
Steven Bernstein
Steve Coleman
Joe Daley
Dave Holland
Doug Mathews
Jason Moran
Julian Priester
Warren Smith

A three-hour retrospective on the incredible career of composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who passed away last December at the age of 88. The first half of the program will cover his time in Boston, his work in the 1960s on seminal Blue Note recordings, and his trio recordings as an integral part of the New York loft scene of the 1970s. The second half of the program will establish Rivers as a major jazz composer, focusing on his compositional work for the Winds of Manhattan and the Rivbea Orchestra.

Co-hosted by saxophonist, composer, and educator Allan Chase (Berklee, New England Conservatory), and saxophonist Russ Gershon, composer and founder of the Either/Orchestra in Cambridge.

Hosted by Brian Carpenter, a songwriter, composer, and producer based in Boston. He has produced several radio programs, including The Sound of Horror: Sound Design in Science-Fiction and Horror Films, featuring special guest film sound designers Walter Murch, Craig Henighan, Stephen Barden, and Ren Klyce.

After a year-long effort of developing new arrangements, the Ghost Train Orchestra will be heading back into the studio in April to record their follow-up to last year's acclaimed Hothouse Stomp. The album will move ahead 10 years from the first album, featuring all new arrangements of strange and adventurous chamber jazz from the late 1930s, featuring the full orchestra plus guitarist Avi Bortnick, bassist Michael Bates, and a small choir. Grammy award winning producer Danny Blume will once again be collaborating with Brian Carpenter on the album.

In preparation for the recording, GTO will be performing this material on three special shows in NYC leading up to the recording: Saturday February 18th at Barbes, Saturday March 10th at Shanghai Mermaid, and Saturday March 31st at Jalopy in Brooklyn. See the EVENTS page for more details. If you're in the NY area during that time, don't miss it!