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Welcome to The
New Edge home page. The New Edge features 2 hours each
week of mostly instrumental creative new music, composed and improvised at the
intersection of classical, jazz, and world styles.
Diverse musicians and composers interviewed on The New Edge have included saxophonist/composer Charles Lloyd, guitarist/composer Ralph Towner, Pulizer Prize winning composer John Harbison, guitarist John Abercrombie, pianist/composer Myra Melford, violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch, drummer/composer/bandleader John Hollenbeck, multi-genre violinist/composer DBR (Daniel Bernard Roumaine), composer Keeril Makan, from Morocco the El Arabi-Serghini Trio, ney player Fred Stubbs, pianist/composer Nik Bartsch, clarinetist/composer/gamelanista Evan Ziporyn, flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert, sound artist Ellen Band, drummer Michal Miskiewicz (Tomasz Stanko), the band Adelaide, pianist/composer Tord Gustavsen, composer/conductor Butch Morris, saxophonist Jessica Lurie, pianist Bobo Stenson, composer/saxophonist Mathew Rosenblum, composer/guitarist David Nichtern, trombonist Brett Sroka, Iranian composer/musician Kayhan Kalhor, vibist Marc Wagnon & bassist Percy Jones, composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel, composer/vocalist Lisa Bielawa, shakuhachi master Yoshio Kurahashi, composer David Rakowski, composer/guitarist David Torn, violinist/arranger/composer Jeremy Cohen, composer Ken Ueno.
Look here for an interview about the show on Great Evolving Sound with Jeremy Meserve.
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You can hear The New Edge on
88.1 FM, WMBR, Tuesday afternoons from
2-4pm EST. WMBR's broadcast signal is heard throughout the greater
Boston area, and worldwide via the internet.
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You can view weekly
playlists for The New Edge beginning at the show's
inception in August 2002.
E-mail me at newedge@wmbr.org.
Or call me when I'm on the air at 617-253-8810. Or write me at:
Ken Field
The New Edge
WMBR Radio
3 Ames St
Cambridge MA 02142
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Photo credit: Claire Folger
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