Results for "Lawrence Peryer"

Mark Isham: Analog Machines And A Jazzman'S Breath

by Lawrence Peryer
October 3, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter, composer, and synthesist Mark Isham.He's out now with At The Carousel Club, his first solo album in fifteen years, built around vintage analog synthesizers and a band that includes Nels Cline, Vinnie Colaiuta, and a string quartet.We talk about where the album's title ...

The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Mark Isham, John Coltrane And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
October 2, 2026

John Coltrane would have turned 100 last week. So this hour closes with 15 minutes of him live at the Village Vanguard in 1961. On the way there, we open in Paris in 1970, with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Fontella Bass. In between, mostly new records: my podcast guest Mark Isham's first solo album ...

Bob Ezrin: Holding Artists To Their Own Best Work

by Lawrence Peryer
September 26, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on famed record producer Bob Ezrin. Bob has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Kiss, Deep Purple, and countless others, though he is best known for his nearly 60-year relationship with Alice Cooper. He's back working with The Jayhawks on their latest, Sanctuary Park, twenty-six ...

Minoru Muraoka, Alice Coltrane, Jazztobak And More

by Lawrence Peryer
September 24, 2026

This episode explores the theme of rediscovery: a 1970 Japanese shakuhachi record just reissued, and a Swedish duo closing things out on a stripped-down reading of an old socialist hymn. In between we present a run built entirely around one photography book, unpublished 1970s portraits by the late Warner Bros. photographer Ginny Winn. The Residents are ...

David Katz: Chasing Dub Beyond The Soundsystem

by Lawrence Peryer
September 19, 2026

Bill Laswell, Kronos Quartet, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, And More.

by Lawrence Peryer
September 18, 2026

The first half of our show is a deep dub run: an obscure mid-1990s compilation cut, Harry Mudie's 1976 session with King Tubby, Scientist's early-'80s Channel One sound, Prince Far I, and Bill Laswell, who shows up twice, once under his own name and once as the producer who reassembled Bob Marley's catalog into ambient dub ...

Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Barry Harris, Don Patterson, Sonny Stitt And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
September 13, 2026

The beating heart of this week's episode emanates from one man's camera expressed through three records:, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane's 1957 residency, Barry Harris' 1975 Xanadu debut, and a rediscovered Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson date, all appear in a new book of Don Schlitten's jazz photography, the producer and photographer who died earlier this ...

Fling II: Modular Synths, Pedal Steel, And Michigan Motorik

by Lawrence Peryer
September 12, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Ann Arbor kosmische band Fling ii. I sat down with drummer and synthesist Brad Gowland, and guitarist Richard Murphy, to chat about their third album, 3, which is out now on We Are Busy Bodies. Its six tracks were cut down from hours of studio jamming. ...

Yoko Ono, Martin Bisi, Fela Kuti, Sons Of Kemet And Others

by Lawrence Peryer
September 6, 2026

A wide-open hour: a new quartet session from Christer Bothén, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin opens things, and from there we range through Cibo Matto's take on a Yoko Ono song, brand new records from Laura Veirs, Martin Bisi, Cassie Watson Francillon, and the French trio Namas, a Fela Kuti cut from 1973, and ...

Martin Bisi: Forty-Five Years Of Sonic Murder

by Lawrence Peryer
September 5, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on producer and engineer Martin Bisi.Bisi has run BC Studio out of the Gowanus section of Brooklyn since 1981, recording Sonic Youth, Swans, Herbie Hancock's “Rockit," and countless others.We discussed his new album, Dancing On The Power Lines, his ongoing community activism, the changing landscape ...