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Profiles With Maggie LePiqueStanley Clarke Discusses His Upcoming Box Set Last Train To Sanity And His Amazing Journey Of Musical InnovationHost Maggie LePique & Stanley Clarke discuss the new release "Last Train to Sanity," a major project featuring new music, classic jazz-fusion remakes, and a significant autobiographical book, arriving as a 2-LP/CD set with a deluxe edition containing extra goodies, including a book called Notes From The Journey, "which is a book that goes from eight years old up until today,” Clarke says. “It has as much stuff as we could fit in there." Its available to pre-order January 26 2026, with the "4EVER" band supporting. Maggie & Stanley also discuss musicians who have had a life...
2026-01-2039 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueActor John C. Reilly IS Mr. Romantic - A Candid Discussion: What's Not To LoveMaggie & John C. Reilly discuss “What’s Not to Love?” Mister Romantic’s debut album out now on Eternal Magic Recordings is a collection of beloved songs from the American Songbook reimagined by Reilly and his Grammy-winning band. “What’s Not To Love?” was recorded in 2024 in Los Angeles at Nest Recorders and was co-produced by Reilly and Davíd Garza. In addition to Garza on piano and guitar, the band also includes Gabe Witcher on violin, Sebastian Steinberg on bass, and Charles De Castro on accordion and cornet. CREATED BY JOHN C. REILLY
2026-01-0334 minProfiles With Maggie LePiquePresident Of Sinatra Enterprises Charlie Pignone Discusses Sinatra Double Vinyl Set "The Giants Of Jazz"In late September 2025, UMe, in conjunction with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, announced a new exclusive double-vinyl collection from Frank Sinatra, featuring his historic collaborations with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, entitled The Giants Of Jazz. This special release includes a pair of timeless albums—It Might As Well Be Swing with Count Basie and His Orchestra and Francis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington—newly remastered from the archival recordings. The package includes a new gatefold jacket design that incorporates rare...
2025-11-2633 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger Discusses The 60th Anniversary Of The Doors Show That Took Place October 30, 2025 Live At The Greek TheatreLegendary guitarist and primary songwriter for the iconic Rock Band The Doors discusses the 60th Anniversary of The Doors concert which took place Thurs. October 30, 2025 at the Greek Theatre with a cavalcade of special guests. Maggie & Robby discuss the early days of The Doors, meeting John Densmore and how & why the band had a transformative impact not only on popular music but on popular culture. The interview took place at KPFK studios on October 15, 2025 with host Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger held a 60th-anniversary concert for The Doors, titled "A 60th Anniversary Doors Celebration," on October 30, 2025, at the...
2025-11-0126 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueRita Wilde Discusses The New Bruce Springsteen Tracks II: The Lost Albums Featuring 7 Never Heard, Full-Length RecordsOne of the most remarkable and unusual box sets “Tracks II: The Lost Albums, seven previously-unheard Bruce Springsteen records have been released as a nine LP or seven CD collection. Spanning 83 songs - 74 of which have never been released in any form - Tracks II: The Lost Albums offers an unprecedented look into more than three prolific decades of Springsteen’s life and work as an artist.Maggie's guest for this conversation is veteran Rock DJ Rita Wilde who shares her insights into the iconic Mr. Springsteen and this amazing release of his musi...
2025-09-1639 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Randi & Denny Tedesco Discuss Wrecking Crew Stories and The Magnificent Legacy Of Brian Wilson!Don Randi is a keyboard player, songwriter, arranger, bandleader and one of the most prolific session musicians in history. Don was born in New York City but raised in the Catskill Mountains where he studied classical music. He moved to Los Angeles in 1954 and, by the early 60s, Don was leading his own groups and working with a who's who of now legendary artists. Don is also the founder and owner of the long-standing L.A. nightclub the Baked Potato which he opened way back in 1970. Denny Tedesco is a film producer known f...
2025-07-211h 17Profiles With Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger Discusses The 60th Anniversary Of The Doors in 2025 + A Series Of Whisky a Go Go Shows!Maggie speaks with legendary guitarist, songwriter and founded member of The Doors about The Doors 60th Anniversary this year (2025) and all the exciting events and releases that are happening and will be happening. Robby Krieger is the guitarist for the legendary rock band The Doors and the songwriter behind some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Love Me Two Times,” “Touch Me,” “Love Her Madly,” and their #1 smash, “Light My Fire.” The Doors have sold over a hundred million albums worldwide, inspired a major feature film, been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy®, and been inducted into the Ro...
2025-05-2943 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueMichelle Coltrane Discusses The Exhibition Monument Eternal At The Hammer Museum, Part Of The Year Of Alice Coltrane And More!Michelle Coltrane and Maggie LePique discuss her Mother, Alice Coltrane and the year-long celebration currently underway that’s being called “The Year of Alice.”This celebration spans 2024-2025 and features previously unreleased music and reissues, brand new community programming, a multimedia museum exhibit, specially curated concerts, newly choreographed ballet works and much more.Jazz musician, composer, bandleader and spiritual and devotional leader, Alice Coltrane was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1937 to Solon and Annie McLeod, the fifth of six children. By the age of nine, she played organ during servic...
2025-04-0442 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueFilm Director John Scheinfeld & Drummer Bobby Colomby (Blood Sweat & Tears) About "What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears?Maggie LePique interviews director John Scheinfeld and drummer & founding member of Blood Sweat & Tears, Bobby Colomby about the forthcoming documentary ‘What The Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?’ Abramorama, a New York-based film distribution and marketing company, has acquired worldwide rights to “What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?” Described as a stranger-than-fiction political thriller, the documentary takes a deep dive into the disappearance of one of the great counterculture bands of the late 60s and early 70s. Opens Friday March 31st at the Laemmle Santa Monica (Los Angeles Opening) Through documentary footage shot during the Iron Cur...
2025-03-2749 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueCurator, Marr Sound Archives Director and Charlie Parker Biographer Chuck Haddix Discusses Charlie Parker's "Bird in Kansas City"Maggie discusses in depth, the release of Charlie Parker's "Bird in Kansas City" with Chuck Haddix, curator, Director of the Marr Sound Archives in Kansas City and Charlie Parker Biographer. Charlie Parker had a complicated relationship with his hometown of Kansas City, MO owing both to its history of racial segregation and to his strong ties to his family and friends there. This new set of rare recordings dating from between 1941-1951—most of them never having been heard before and some never even having been known to exist—chronicle Bird’s evolut...
2025-03-2235 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueHabitat for Humanity CEO & President Erin Rank Discusses The Process of Recovery & Rebuilding After Recent CA WildfiresMaggie speaks with Habitat for Humanity LA CEO & President Erin Rank about the recovery & rebuilding process after the devastating CA Wildfires. These fires that struck Southern CA on the morning of January 7, 2025. KPFK Radio in Los Angeles has partnered with Habitat for Humanity LA to help those who lost so much and Erin tells us all about the process HFH LA takes to help in cases of such major natural disasters. (which some disagree with and state these are man-made catastrophes) Habitat LA envisions a world where every person has a decent place to live. Our mission wa...
2025-02-2418 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueInternationally Recognized, Independent Record Producer Zev Feldman Discusses B.B. King In France: Live at the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (1977)Maggie speaks with Zev Feldman, an internationally recognized, independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records. He is also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records. Over the last 25 years he has worked for PolyGram, Universal Music Group, Rhino/Warner Music Group, Concord Music Group, among others. He won DownBeat Magazine's International Critics Poll for "Rising Star Producer" in 2016 for his work on a staggering 26 historical jazz recordings that year and...
2025-02-0131 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMicah Nelson AKA Particle Kid, On Willie Nelson's Latest Recording Last Leaf On The TreeMaggie speaks with Willie Nelson's youngest son Micah Nelson also known as "Particle Kid" about his latest collaboration with his Father. Willie's 76th studio album and 153rd album overall as he celebrates his 91st year. Willie Nelson is now in his 7th decade as a songwriter, performer and recording artist, but one of his most underrated talents is song interpretation. Over his career he has tackled songs from across the world of music, making each his own. Willie turns his gaze to a collection of songs by rock legends, idiosyncratic singer songwriters, a...
2025-01-2029 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueExperience Hendrix Archivist, Director & Producer John McDermott On Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix VisionJohn McDermott is a writer, producer and, for nearly three decades, the Catalog Director for the Jimi Hendrix family company Experience Hendrix, L.L.C.. Together with Jimi Hendrix’s sister, Janie Hendrix and legendary engineer Eddie Kramer, McDermott has co-produced every Jimi Hendrix CD and DVD release, including 1999’s Grammy Award-winning Band Of Gypsys, 2014’s Emmy Award-winning Hear My Train A Comin’ and the recent Grammy nominated Music, Money, Madness: Jimi Hendrix In Maui. John & Maggie discuss his latest project is Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision the new feature-length document...
2024-12-1834 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueJoan Baez Discusses Her Latest Book "When You See My Mother, Ask Her To Dance" And More!Maggie and Joan discuss Joan's latest book "When You See My Mother, Ask her to Dance" And we discuss her beautiful artistic legacy and political activism. Including the documentary Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, Joan Baez I Am A Noise is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio...
2024-12-0434 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueQuincy Jones Interview from 2008 On The Complete Quincy Jones My Journey & Passions BookMaggie spoke with Quincy Jones in early December 2008 about his book, The Complete Quincy Jones My Journey & Passions. We discussed some of his favorite musical collaborations including Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis and discuss the idea of mentorship and why it's so important to "pass it on" Quincy Delight Jones Jr. March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024 was an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award ...
2024-11-1032 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueMarcia Withers, Bill Withers Wife And Manager Discusses Grandma's Hands Book + Her Husband's Timeless LegacyGrandma’s Hands is a timeless, universal song originally featured on Bill Withers’ 1971 album, Just As I Am.With soulful lyrics, the song captures the significant impact that Withers’ grandmother had on his life as a child.Multiple award-winning artist R. Gregory Christie has brought the iconic song to life through vibrant illustrations, painting a tender portrait of Bill’s grandmother. Through the illustrations, readers are transported back in time to experience the comfort, security, and unconditional love that he found in his grandmother’s hands.A heartwarming tribute to the enduring bond betwe...
2024-10-2837 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Three: Stanley Clarke Episode UpdatedFour-time Grammy Award winner Stanley Clarke is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated acoustic and electric bass players in the world. What’s more, he is equally gifted as a recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer and film score composer. A true pioneer in jazz and jazz-fusion, Clarke is particularly known for his ferocious bass dexterity and consummate musicality. Unquestionably, he has attained “living legend” status during his over 40-year career as a bass virtuoso. Part One of 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival ShortsAnd inside look into the artist and the legend...
2024-10-2115 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Four: Lila Downs Episode UpdatedLila Downs is one of the most influential artists in Latin America. She has one of the most unique voices in the world and is known for her charismatic performances. His own compositions combine genres and rhythms as diverse as Mexican rancheras and corridos, boleros, jazz standards, hip-hop, cumbia and popular American music. Frequently her lyrics focus on justice, immigration and women’s problems.She grew up in both Minnesota and Oaxaca, Mexico, her mother is from the Mixtec indigenous group and her father was Scottish-American. Lila sings in Spanish, English and several native American la...
2024-10-2110 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Five: Brandee Younger Episode UpdatedThe sonically innovative harpist, Brandee Younger, is revolutionizing harp for the digital era. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries and limitations for harpists. In 2022, she made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Instrumental Composition. That same year, she was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award and later, the winner of the 2024 NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album for her latest al...
2024-10-2110 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take One: Don Was Episode UpdatedDon Was is one of music’s most significant artists and executives, exceling in multiple roles and serving as one of the industry’s beacons for integrity and forward-thinking. During this period of disruption and rapid evolution in the worldwide music business, Was remains committed to music as an art form and its importance to contemporary culture. As the President of Blue Note Records since 2011, Was is both the company’s leader and an ambassador for its music, charged with bringing the label’s 21st Century jazz artists and its expanding pallet of contemporary musicians to larger audience...
2024-10-2110 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Two: Ashley Kahn Episode UpdatedAshley Kahn is a Grammy-winning author, educator, music journalist, and concert producer. His books include A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.One of 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival ShortsAnd inside look into the legendary Festival and what talks Ashley hosted this year including, Conversation: Songs for My Father — Soundtracks and Jazz with Kyle Eastwood & Ashley Kahn, Conversation: Crescendo in Blue — Vinyl Past, Vin...
2024-10-2118 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Five: Brandee Younger EpisodeThe sonically innovative harpist, Brandee Younger, is revolutionizing harp for the digital era. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries and limitations for harpists. In 2022, she made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Instrumental Composition. That same year, she was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award and later, the winner of the 2024 NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Jazz Album for her latest al...
2024-10-1810 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Four: Lila DownsLila Downs is one of the most influential artists in Latin America. She has one of the most unique voices in the world and is known for her charismatic performances. His own compositions combine genres and rhythms as diverse as Mexican rancheras and corridos, boleros, jazz standards, hip-hop, cumbia and popular American music. Frequently her lyrics focus on justice, immigration and women’s problems.She grew up in both Minnesota and Oaxaca, Mexico, her mother is from the Mixtec indigenous group and her father was Scottish-American. Lila sings in Spanish, English and several native American la...
2024-10-1710 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Three: Don Was EpisodeDon Was is one of music’s most significant artists and executives, exceling in multiple roles and serving as one of the industry’s beacons for integrity and forward-thinking. During this period of disruption and rapid evolution in the worldwide music business, Was remains committed to music as an art form and its importance to contemporary culture. As the President of Blue Note Records since 2011, Was is both the company’s leader and an ambassador for its music, charged with bringing the label’s 21st Century jazz artists and its expanding pallet of contemporary musicians to larger audience...
2024-10-1610 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take Two: Ashley Kahn EpisodeAshley Kahn is a Grammy-winning author, educator, music journalist, and concert producer. His books include A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.One of 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival ShortsAnd inside look into the legendary Festival and what talks Ashley hosted this year including, Conversation: Songs for My Father — Soundtracks and Jazz with Kyle Eastwood & Ashley Kahn, Conversation: Crescendo in Blue — Vinyl Past, Vin...
2024-10-1518 minProfiles With Maggie LePique67th Monterey Jazz Festival Shorts Take One: Stanley ClarkeFour-time Grammy Award winner Stanley Clarke is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated acoustic and electric bass players in the world. What’s more, he is equally gifted as a recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer and film score composer. A true pioneer in jazz and jazz-fusion, Clarke is particularly known for his ferocious bass dexterity and consummate musicality. Unquestionably, he has attained “living legend” status during his over 40-year career as a bass virtuoso. Part One of 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival ShortsAnd inside look into the artist and the legend...
2024-10-1415 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMichelle Coltrane Discusses Her Mother, Musician & Spiritual Leader Alice Coltrane And Celebrate The Year Of Alice 2024-2025The John & Alice Coltrane Home and the Coltrane Family, in partnership with Impulse! Records, Detroit Jazz Festival, Hammer Museum, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, The New York Historical Society, and many more, have declared 2024-2025 to be THE YEAR OF ALICE, celebrating the extensive life work of spiritual leader, composer, and musician Alice Coltrane.In addition to being an iconic and remarkably prolific musician, Mrs. Coltrane was a beloved and wise spiritual leader, a pragmatic person with a keen eye for business, and a deeply giving human, who emphasized the importance of charitable giving, education, and...
2024-09-0930 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueMusician & Producer Don Was On Don Was & The Pan Detroit EnsembleDon Was & The Pan Detroit EnsembleMaggie LePique speaks with Don Was about his new musical group Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble. Don & the Ensemble are embarking on a West Coast run of concert dates in September 2024. Made up of stellar jazz musicians from his Detroit hometown, The Pan-Detroit Ensemble will perform a mix of new originals, interpretations of songs written by artists like Yusef Lateef, Olu Dara, and Henry Threadgill, and of course updated cuts from albums that Don recorded with Orquestra Was and Was (Not Was). Don’s Detroit roots still run deep an...
2024-08-1651 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueStanley Clarke Multi Grammy Award Winner, Recording Artist, Composer, Arranger, Producer Of Films Discusses His Forthcoming Record + What's Up Ahead!Maggie speaks with four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, a composer for recordings and film, as well as one of the most celebrated acoustic and electric bass players in the world, Stanley Clarke. Stanley and Maggie discuss his forthcoming new album, as well as some of the upcoming highlights of his 2024 tour, stopping at the 67th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Saturday September 29, 2024.MJF 67 September 27-29 2024Stanley Clarke has attained “living legend” status during his over 50-year career as a bass virtuoso. He is the first bass...
2024-07-1930 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueSerj Tankian On Down With The System: A Memoir (of Sorts). Activist, Musician, Songwriter, Painter And PoetSerj talks with Maggie about his new book Down With The System: A Memoir (of Sorts) In DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM, Serj presents readers with a memoir that is far more than just a rock 'n' roll fable. It's an immigrant's tale, it’s an activist's awakening, and it's a spiritual journey from darkness toward light. And all of this comes down to the fact that Serj himself has had the chance to live an extraordinary life—thanks to a combination of luck, circumstance, struggle, talent, and spiritual awakening. Braiding together Serj’s thought...
2024-06-1239 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Randi, Keyboard Player, Bandleader, And Veteran Of One Of The Most Prolific And Successful Group Of LA Studio Session Musicians Known As The Wrecking Crew.Don Randi is a keyboard player, bandleader, longtime nightclub owner (no easy feat in L.A.) and a veteran of one of the most prolific and successful group of Los Angeles studio session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.He began his career as a professional pianist and keyboard player in 1956, gradually establishing a reputation as a leading session musician. In the early 1960s, he was a major contributor, as musician and arranger, to producer Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound". He also played piano on "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," by Nancy Sinatra, and The...
2024-05-101h 04Profiles With Maggie LePiqueThe Jazz Detective Zev Feldman On Sister Rosetta Tharpe Previously Unreleased Recording Live In France: The 1966 Concert In Limoges Record Store Day Release 2024Maggie speaks with Zev Feldman, an internationally recognized, independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records in Los Angeles. He is also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records. Zev & Maggie discuss Live In France: The 1966 Concert In Limoges is a previously unissued live solo recording of the "Godmother of Rock n’ Roll," Sister Rosetta Tharpe, captured at the auditorium of the Grand Theatre in Limoges, France on November 11, 1966. This is an official release on producer Zev Feldman's new Deep Digs re...
2024-04-0738 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger (The Doors) Drops His Debut Album: Robby Krieger And The Soul SavagesMaggie speaks intimately with Robby Krieger about his debut recording with his latest group, The Soul Savages. Joining Robby on this all-instrumental odyssey of psych-rock soul are top-shelf composers, instrumentalists, and bandmates. Bassist-songwriter Kevin “Brandino” Brandon co-wrote and recorded with Robby on the Singularity album, and he has won over half a dozen Grammy awards as well as three Emmy awards. His extensive resume includes credits with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, and Beyonce. Keyboardist-songwriter Ed Roth is a Grammy-nominee known for his work in j...
2024-03-1727 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueRon Kovic's New Book, A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy, Author Of Born On The Fourth Of JulyRON KOVIC served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War. He was paralyzed from his chest down in combat in 1968 and has been in a wheelchair ever since. Along with Oliver Stone, Kovic was the coscreenwriter of the 1989 Academy Award–winning film based on Kovic’s best-selling memoir Born on the Fourth of July (starring Tom Cruise as Kovic). Hurricane Street (2016) detailed Kovic’s efforts to organize the American Veterans Movement in 1974, fighting for better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. His latest work is A Dangerous Country.Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July an...
2024-02-2939 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueFrank Sinatra Enterprises President Charlie Pignone Discusses "Platinum" 70th Capitol Records CollectionMaggie LePique and Charlie Pignone discuss Platinum which celebrates the 70th Anniversary of Frank Sinatra signing to Capitol Records, a moment that transformed his career and solidified his standing as one of the greatest interpretive singers of all time. From 1953 – 1962, Sinatra recorded more than three hundred songs for Capitol, the majority of them included on the landmark ‘concept’ albums Sinatra pioneered. It is arguably the finest body of recorded work in popular music.The 44-track set features a cross-section of his most beloved songs and sought-after rarities. From the swinging “I’ve Got...
2023-12-2243 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueJimi Hendrix Catalog Director, Archivist & Producer John McDermott On Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967. Experience Hendrix & Legacy Recordings released Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967. This live concert performance was captured just five days before the US release of Are You Experienced, their album debut. Amazingly, not a single second of this two-track live recording has ever been released before in any capacity, either via official channels or otherwise.During their set, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Noel Redding) blazed through originals such as “Purple Haze,” “The Wind Cries Mary,” and yet-to-be-released classics “Foxey Lady” and “Fire,” as well as their own re-imagining of favorites Bob Dylan...
2023-12-0740 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Was, Blue Note’s Renaissance Music Man Goes Deep On The Brilliant Musical Legacy Of Wayne ShorterDon Was is one of music’s most significant artists and executives, exceling in multiple roles and serving as one of the industry’s beacons for integrity and forward-thinking. During this period of disruption and rapid evolution in the worldwide music business, Was remains committed to music as an art form and its importance to contemporary culture. As the President of Blue Note Records since 2011, Was is both the company’s leader and an ambassador for its music, charged with bringing the label’s 21st Century jazz artists and its expanding pallet of contemporary musicians to larger audiences...
2023-11-2141 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueJohn Densmore Discusses His Book; The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes On TrialIn The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the “greed gene”—that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships, and the well-being of society. This is the gripping account of the legal battle to control The Doors’s artistic destiny. In it, Densmore looks at his conflict with his bandmates over the right to use The Doors’s name, revealing the ways i...
2023-11-0332 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger On Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters With Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger On Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original MastersThe Doors were a few months away from stardom in March 1967 when they played five sparsely attended shows at a small club in San Francisco called The Matrix. These uninhibited performances would have been fleeting if not for Peter Abram, who co-owned the pizza parlor-turned-nightclub with Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin. An avid recordist, Abram taped concerts at The Matrix regularly and his recordings of The Doors, made between March 7-11, 1967, spawned one of the band’s most storied bootlegs. At long last, all known Matr...
2023-10-2441 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueA Celebration Of Nina Simone With Emmy Award Winning Music Journalist Alan LightMy guest this hour is writer extraordinaire Alan Light. Alan is an Emmy Award-winning music journalist, a best-selling author and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Esquire. He’s the former Editor-in-Chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, a former Senior Writer at Rolling Stone.His books include biographies of Johnny Cash, the Beastie Boys, and (as co-author) memoirs by Gregg Allman and Peter Frampton. He’s also written THE HOLY OR THE BROKEN: LEONARD COHEN, JEFF BUCKLEY, AND THE UNLIKELY ASCENT OF "HALLELUJAH" (which was adapted into the acclaime...
2023-09-0124 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueAshley Kahn On Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy August 1961Maggie speaks with Grammy-winning music historian, journalist, producer, and educator Ashley Kahn about Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. In 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York. Coltrane’s Classic Quartet was not as fully established as it would soon become and there was a meteoric fifth member of Coltrane’s group those nights— visionary multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Ninety minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library...
2023-08-2239 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueAaron J. Leonard On His New Book, Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion And Repression 1955-1972Maggie speaks with Aaron J. Leonard, author and historian whose intriguing and insightful works include "Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists," "A Threat of the First Magnitude—FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration" and "The Folk Singers & the Bureau." His latest book is "Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972" which we discuss is detail in this interview. Leonard has established himself as a leading expert when it comes to accessing and researching FBI files. He deftly sorts through these documents to demonstrate the breadth of state surveillance against musicians who offended those...
2023-08-1627 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueThe Global Salsa Explosion And It's Origins With Bassist Eddie Resto And Percussionist Joey DeLeonMaggie speaks with percussionist Joey DeLeon and bassist Eddie Resto about “The Global Salsa Explosion and Its Origins” and play the incredible, iconic music that caused such a sensation when it stormed out of New York in the 1970s.Joey De Leon is a percussionist, educator and producer who's performed or recorded with artists of almost every genre from jazz to Latin, pop to contemporary classical and film scores. The long list of artists he's worked with include Queen Latifah, Al Jarreau, Jennifer Lopez, Bette Midler, Cyndi Lauper, Poncho Sanchez, Arturo Sandoval and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band....
2023-07-2754 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDale Bell, Author And Academy Award Winning Producer Of The Film Woodstock Speaks To Maggie About Why Woodstock Still MattersMaggie and Dale Bell discuss his book: Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and Defined a Generation and the film, Woodstock 3 Days of Peace & Music: The Director's Cut screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Summer of Music: Concert Films 1959–2020 Jun 10 – Aug 26, 2023Dale Bell, has spent his professional life in the arts, television and film. His awards include the Academy Award (Woodstock), the Peabody Award (Kennedy Center Tonight), two Emmys, four BAFTAs, and two Christophers. His work―performance, dramatic, documentary, commercials and industrials―has been see...
2023-06-2833 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDemetrius D. Harris President / Executive Director Of Fly Compton Foundation Joins Maggie LePique For An Overview Of His Amazing FoundationProfiles host Maggie LePique sits down with President and Executive Director of Fly Compton Foundation Demetrius G. Harris. Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation, Inc. is a 501c3 organization founded in 2020 by a group of African American professional pilots and aircraft mechanics that all had a common goal... to give back to and invest in the youth of our community. Concurrently, we are contributing to the diversification of an industry that has been long been exclusive to individuals of a higher economic status.As of 2018, people of color only make...
2023-06-0634 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueM.E.B. (formerly Miles Electric Band) That You Not Dare To Forget With Miles Davis's Nephew Vince Wilburn JrMaggie speaks with Miles Davis's nephew, musician and bandleader Vince Wilburn Jr about That You Not Dare To Forget by M.E.B. (formerly Miles Electric Band) led by Vince Wilburn, Jr. collects a progressive all-star ensemble featuring Miles Davis alumni and the players Miles inspired. This brand new, never-released studio recording captures a multi-generational who’s who of acclaimed artists performing new Miles-inspired compositions. Two tracks of the five on the album include unreleased trumpet performances by Miles and the album, produced by Mi les’ alumni Lenny White and Wilburn, features music legends including Ron...
2023-05-1731 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueFilm historian And Author Donald Bogle On "Hollywood Black: The Stars, The Films, The Filmmakers" And More!Maggie speaks extensively with Film historian, educator and author Donald Bogle is one of the foremost authorities on African Americans in the movies. With a series of provocative, culturally significant books, Bogle almost single-handedly pioneered the study, appreciation, and value of the work and achievements--as well as the heroic struggles--of Black artists working in films. With his very first book, Donald Bogle won the Theatre Library Association Award for Film. That book, now in its 5th expanded, updated edition, it is considered a classic study of Black movie images in America and is used in cour...
2023-05-1041 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueFounding Doors Member, Guitarist ROBBY KRIEGER On His Latest Group And The Legendary Jazz Club The Baked PotatoLegendary Guitarist and founding member of the iconic Rock Band The Doors, ROBBY KRIEGER Talks about his latest group "Krieger And The Soul Savages" and the legendary Jazz Club The Baked Potato and The Whisky A Go Go. Guests include Robby's pianist with The Soul Savages Ed Roth and legendary Trumpeter Sal Marquez who was part of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Woody Herman Orchestra, Buddy Rich Big Band and The Tonight Show Band with Leader Branford Marsalis. This interview includes some outtakes not heard on the Radio broadcast. The musical group Krieger & The Soul Savages pla...
2023-04-2945 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueIleen Sheppard Gallagher - Pop Culture Exhibition Planner About Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure Los AngelesIn this episode of Profiles with Maggie LePique, we discuss a new Art Exhibit that is happening now through July 2023 : Jean-Michel Basquiat: King PleasureOpening in Downtown LA Friday March 31st at the Grand LA. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s contributions to the history of art and his explorations of multifaceted cultural phenomena––including music, the Black experience, pop culture, Black American sports figures, literature, and other sources––will be showcased through immersive environments providing unique insight into the late artist’s creative life and his singular voice that propelled a social and cultural narrative that continues to this day. Or...
2023-04-0817 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueA Celebration Of The Musical Genius, Wayne Shorter With Maggie's Special Guest, Drummer Alex AcuñaIn this episode we celebrate the incredible musical legacy of saxophonist, composer and bandleader Wayne Shorter, born August 25, 1933 in Newark New Jersey and passed away March 2, 2023. My special guest is Alex Acuña, a prolific drummer, percussionist, composer, and bandleader who has amassed more 900 recording credits. (its probably more now) After touring with Perez Prado during the 1960s and playing with Elvis Presley in Las Vegas in the early '70s - In 1974, Acuña and his family moved to Las Vegas. He continued working with Prado's show band, and played for Elvis Presley's Las Vegas residencies in a...
2023-04-0431 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueJonathan Shank CEO Of Terrapin Station Entertainment: Bob Marley One Love Experience In Los AngelesMaggie speaks with CEO of Terrapin Station Entertainment, Jonathan Shank about his latest project, Bob Marley One Love Experience which began its run of engagement in Los Angeles January 27th and runs until April 23, 2023 (12- week engagement)This multi-sensory experience will showcase never-before-seen Marley photographs and memorabilia, while immersing you in a journey through his life, passions, influences, and enduring legacy. Venture through the One Love Forest, visit the Soul Shakedown Studio and delve into the multi-sensory experience celebrating one of the world’s most beloved and unifying musical figures. 6801 Hollywood Blvd. (2nd floor next to Dolby...
2023-02-2821 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueJimi Hendrix's 80th Birthday Celebration With Jimi's Sister, Janie Hendrix And Experience Hendrix Archivist/Producer John McDermott Music With Journalist And Profiles Producer Jerry OughMaggie LePique's longtime producer and music journalist Jerry Ough celebrates Jimi Hendrix's 80th Birthday with Jimi's sister, Janie Hendrix and longtime producer and Archivist John McDermott. Jerry, Janie and John discussThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969, legendary 1969 performance includes “Purple Haze” and an incendiary 17-minute medley of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” and Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love.” The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969, released on 2LP vinyl, CD and all digital platforms, was recorded in the spring of 1969 before a raucous, sold-out audience. This captivating performance of the original lineup (singer/guitarist Jimi Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitc...
2023-01-0741 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueRolling Stone Magazine Founder Jann Wenner On His New Memoir: "Like A Rolling Stone"Maggie LePique speaks with Jann Wenner, whose memoir "Like a Rolling Stone" chronicles his life as the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine.Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen).Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept Amer...
2022-12-2835 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMusic Journalist And Profiles Producer Jerry Ough Speaks With Legendary Bassist (And Wrecking Crew Member) Chuck Berghofer About His Life In MusicMaggie LePique's Producer Jerry Ough speaks with master double bassist Chuck Berghofer about his incredible music legacy. As a member of the Wrecking Crew, Chuck Berghofer helped change the sound of popular music. His big, warm bass sound has laid the foundation for artists from A to Z with recordings by Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Christina Aguilera, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, Diana Krall, Robbie Williams, and more. It has also set the mood on over 400 movies like Rocky, True Crime, Bird, and The Majestic and TV shows like The Carol Burnett Show, The Simpsons, Family Guy, a...
2022-12-0845 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueFilmmaker And Musician Martin Shore About Take Me To The River New OrleansTAKE ME TO THE RIVER NEW ORLEANSNew Orleans Music: One of the World’s Most Unique and Important Cultural JewelsTake Me to the River New Orleans,” the second film, celebrates the rich musical history, the heritage, legacy, and influence of New Orleans and Louisiana. A true collaboration and melting pot of influences from around the World, that came together and formed one of the world’s most unique cultural jewels. Our adventure shows the resiliency of surviving disaster to a formidable rebirth. Pairing legacy musicians with stars of today.There is nothing like t...
2022-11-2424 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDavid Bowie Pianist Mike Garson On Working With David Bowie And Live At Glastonbury 2000 And More!Maggie LePique speaks with the marvelous and brilliant jazz pianist Mike Garson and they discuss the Live at Glastonbury 2000 recording. The Legendary Full Performance Released For The First Time (In 2018) Including Many Of Bowie's Greatest Hits And Never Before Seen Footage. This release documents Bowie's legendary Sunday night headline performance on June 25 2000 at the most famous festival on earth. -The box set includes the full 21 song greatest hits set and for the first time, a DVD of the entire show (only 30 minutes of which has ever been broadcast on TV) including the Glastonbury performance of "'Heroes'," a highlight of t...
2022-11-1627 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDan Guerrero On Linda Ronstadt's New Memoir Feel Like Home: A Song For The Sonoran BorderlandsMaggie LePique sits down with Dan Guerrero, an award-winning producer/director of diverse programming for network and cable television and of live arts and culture concert events at prestigious venues including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the LA Opera and multiple events at the Kennedy Center in DC. The eclectic artist also tours with his autobiographical solo play ¡Gaytino! Made in America that was recently filmed and is screening at U.S. Film Festivals. Guerrero is also an influential activist for both the Latinx and LGBTQ communities and is a popular figure on the speaking circuit. B...
2022-10-2727 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Revisits Robby Krieger's Memoir: Set The Night On Fire: Living, Dying, And Playing Guitar With The Doors Now Available In PaperbackMaggie and Robby sit down and revisit his 2021 Memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With The Doors Now Available In Paperback and play a few clips from the audiobook. In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll.Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fa...
2022-10-2229 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Speaks With Olivia Harrison (George Harrison's Widow) Regarding Her New Poetry Book Came The Lightening: Twenty Poems For GeorgeCame the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George By Olivia HarrisonMaggie goes in-depth about Olivia's reason for celebrating her husband, George Harrison, 20 years after his passing with a book of poems for him. Olivia also reads from her timeless and beautiful tribute to George. 'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' – Olivia HarrisonOlivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening, a book of twenty poems dedicated to...
2022-09-1430 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueDrummer, Producer Gregg Field Discusses Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin SongbookMaggie Speaks With Drummer, Producer Gregg Field About Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook - Eight-time Grammy and 2018 Emmy winner (including Latin Grammy “Producer of the Year”) Gregg Field is one of the most musically diverse and highly sought-after producers, musicians and educators in music.World class musicians and singers — a veritable who’s who of music, including Michael Buble, Placido Domingo, Pharrell Williams, Josh Groban, Garth Brooks, Alejandro Sanz, Stevie Wonder, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones — are among his many musical collaborators.Starting at age 19, Field toured with, among others, Co...
2022-08-2131 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueJim Messina Speaks With Maggie LePique About His Prolific Career And Musical Partnership With Kenny LogginsAn undisputed expert in the fine art of making hit music, JIM MESSINA’s legacy of musical genius spans five decades, three super groups, a vibrant solo career and scores of producing and engineering credits.While acting as producer/audio engineer for Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Buffalo Springfield, Messina ultimately joined the band as its bass player. When “the Springfield” disbanded in 1968, Jim and fellow bandmate Richie Furay formed Poco. With Jim on lead guitar, Poco defined a new musical genre, Country Rock. After three successful albums, Jim was ready for a cha...
2022-07-1533 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Speaks With Sinatra Enterprises President Charlie Pignone About The Re-Release Of WatertownMaggie LePique speaks with Sinatra Archivist, Charlie Pignone about the re-release of Watertown, a 1970 concept album, newly mixed and remastered from the original Sessions tapes. Upon Watertown’s release, fans and critics alike simply weren’t prepared for such a radical stylistic departure from Sinatra. But the album has shown resilience: Despite the initial lukewarm response, in the decades since the album has had a re-evaluation and, in 2007, The Guardian declared Watertown “one of [Sinatra’s] greatest masterpieces” and in 2015, The Observer noted that “it made some sense that Sinatra would attempt a story-driven concept album, considering he had helped p...
2022-06-2336 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueA Celebration Of George Harrison With Award Winning Author & Educator Ashley KhanMaggie LePique speaks with celebrating author, and educator Ashley Khan about the enduring legacy of George Harrison, a British guitarist, singer, songwriter and film producer. As a member of the Beatles, he achieved international fame and renown. During his career, he developed as a songwriter in his own right and wrote many best selling songs. In addition to music, Harrison was interested in Hindu spirituality and was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement. George also founded the Material World Charitable Foundation, or MWF, on 26 April 1973, close to two years after he had organised the Concert for B...
2022-05-2533 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Speaks With Operation USA CEO Richard Walden About Ukraine And MoreMaggie LePique and special co-host Alan Minsky, former PD of KPFK Radio and currently the Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, discuss the crisis in Ukraine with President and CEO of Operation USA, Richard Walden. Operation USA is a Los Angeles-based international disaster relief and development agency helping communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, disease, violence and endemic poverty.42 years–101 countries.Since 1979, Operation USA has worked in 101 countries—delivering over $450 million in aid for relief and development projects around the world. Small, agile and effective.Operation USA is...
2022-04-2535 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Discusses Natalie Cole's Unforgettable..With Love, 30th Anniversary With Pianist/Arranger Alan BroadbentMaggie and extraordinary pianist and arranger, Alan Broadbent discuss the 30th Anniversary of Unforgettable… with Love, the legendary singer and songwriter Natalie Cole’s biggest album to date. Since its initial release in 1991, it has sold over seven million copies and also won Cole seven GRAMMY© Awards. The album features Cole singing several songs her father Nat King Cole recorded, nearly 20 years after she initially refused to cover her father’s songs during live concerts. Cole produced vocal arrangements for the songs, with piano accompaniment by her uncle Ike Cole and many other first rate pianists and arrangers. The album’s ti...
2022-03-1120 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie And Robby Krieger Discuss The 50th Anniversary of The Door's L.A. WomanL.A. WOMAN: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes the original album newly remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick, two bonus discs of unreleased studio outtakes, and the stereo mix of the original album on 180-gram virgin vinyl. For this new collection, the original album has been expanded with more than two hours of unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for L.A. Woman, allowing the listener to experience the progression of each song as it developed in the studio. An early demo for “Hyacinth House” recorded at Robby Krieger’s home stud...
2022-02-2534 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Speaks With Natural History Museum's Su Oh About Becoming Jane: The Evolution Of Jane GoodallSu OhSenior Vice President, Education, Exhibitions and Community EngagementAs the Vice President of Education and Programs, Oh is responsible for increasing the Museum’s presence and influence in Southern California and developing new relationships with institutions and educational organizations in the region that engage the community in impactful lifelong learning relationships. At NHMLAC since 2007, most recently as Director of Education and Programs, Oh shaped and spearheaded educational and entertaining events during the Museum’s dynamic transformation into an indoor-outdoor museum. She oversaw the redesign of the award-winning Mobile Museum: An Ocean Experience, and tran...
2022-02-1328 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie And Special Guest, World Circuit's Nick Gold Discuss the 25th Anniversary Of Buena Vista Social ClubMaggie speaks with Nick Gold (former head of World Circuit Records) about the genesis of the phenomenon of the Buena Vista Social and it's 25th Anniversary release. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ is both the name given to this extraordinary group of musicians and the album, recorded in just seven days in 1996 in Havana’s 1950s vintage EGREM studios. It was clear from the atmosphere of the recording sessions that something very special was taking place. However, no one could have predicted that Buena Vista Social Club would become a worldwide phenomenon – awarded a Grammy in 1997 and, at 8 million copies, ou...
2022-02-0123 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie And Special Guest Robby Krieger Honor Bassist Phil Chen (After The News Of His Death)Maggie LePique with special guest, guitarist Robby Krieger (The Doors) celebrate the life & incredible legacy of PHIL CHEN, SESSION BASSIST FOR ROD STEWART, JEFF BECK AND MANY MORE, HAS DIED AGED 75 Dec 14 2021. Jamaican session bassist Phil Chen has died at the age of 75. The news was broken in a statement shared by his family on social media.Chen was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1946. He played in various bands throughout his youth, cutting his teeth on the Kingston Club Circuit before relocating to London in the late 1960s. He initially started Jimmy James’ band be...
2021-12-1721 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueThe Kaepernick Effect With Celebrated Sportswriter Dave ZirinMaggie discusses The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World with author Dave Zirin. Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter. “The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is bigger than one athlete. With profiles of courage that leap off the page, Zirin uncovers a whole national movement of citizen-athletes fighting for racial justice.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an AntiracistIn 2016, amid an epidemic of police shooting...
2021-11-0923 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaggie Talks With Music Historian Ashley Khan About John Coltrane's A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle (Newly Released)Maggie LePique and Ashley Khan discuss this newly discovered live-recording of a performance of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme suite which has been called a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history. While not studio-quality audio, the power of the performance shines through. This version is also of the full suite and features an expanded band that includes the same Classic Quartet and Pharoah Sanders in his first official gig as part of Coltrane's group. Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning American...
2021-10-2639 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueExperience Hendrix Archivist John McDermott Discusses The 50th Anniversary Release Of Electric LadylandMaggie & John discuss the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of the Jimi Hendrix Experience masterpiece Electric Ladyland, Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, releasied the Deluxe Edition box set on November 9. Available as either a 3CD/1 Blu-ray set or a 6LP/1 Blu-ray set, both packages include the original double album, now newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes. For the LP set, Grundman prepared an all analog direct to disc vinyl transfer of the album, preserving the authenticity. Also included is Electric Ladyland: The E...
2021-10-1430 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMaster Bassist & Composer Stanley Clarke Discusses His Musical Career In Great DepthMaster Bassist & Composer Stanley Clarke Discusses His Musical Career In Great Depth starting from the beginning in Philadelphia to his meeting and collaborating with maestro Chick Corea. Stanley discusses the journey of finding his own sound, Long before he became a four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, a composer for recordings and film, as well as one of the most celebrated acoustic and electric bass players in the world, Stanley Clarke was a student. Stanley’s “school days” were not only the inspiration for his world-renowned bass anthem, but essential to the origin story...
2021-10-1429 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueRobby Krieger Guitarist For The Doors Discusses His New Book Set The Night On Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With The DoorsRobby Krieger discusses his first ever book, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors with Maggie LePique with great candor, humour and detail. In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” opens up about his band’s meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock ‘n’ roll. Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction h...
2021-10-0936 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueSerj Tankian On The Conflict In Armenia And The War With Artsakh And AzerbaijanMaggie speaks with System Of A Down Singer Serj Tankian about the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict - Serj Tankian is a singer, poet, songwriter, visual artist, activist, and composer; Serj Tankian has always created music as an outlet to express his thoughts and feelings with a level of passion and consciousness that few in today’s world of music can rival. An Armenian born in Lebanon and re-rooted in Los Angeles, Tankian was introduced to the melding of cultures, ideas, and ideals from a very young age. The principles learned from this integration and adaptation have led to his understanding of...
2021-09-2121 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueGeorge Harrison On George Harrison: Interviews And Encounters With Ashley KhanMaggie speaks with Grammy-winning author Ashley Kahn about his latest book, "George Harrison on George Harrison" a collection of interviews and TV appearances Harrison gave during his too-short life. Kahn’s collection “covers [Harrison’s] biographical sweep as fully as an autobiography would,” the preface asserts, and though one might argue with that, by book’s end, we believe Kahn’s exhortation: “Read his words, and know the man.”Ashley has received widespread critical acclaim for A Love Supreme: The Making of John Coltrane’s Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Mas...
2021-09-1542 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMiles Davis's Nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. On 'Merci Miles! Live At Vienne From July 1,1991Maggie speaks with Vince Wilburn, Jr. the nephew of the late, great jazz icon Miles Davis and oversees the Miles Davis estate along with Erin and Cheryl Davis (the son and daughter of Miles). Vince is, most notably, a highly accomplished drummer, producer, bandleader and radio host, who has both toured and recorded with Miles on recordings and live performances MILES DAVIS: MERCI MILES! LIVE AT VIENNEPreviously Unreleased Recording Featuring One Of The Jazz Legend’s Final Live Performances Miles Davis performed with the Miles Davis Group on July...
2021-08-2419 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueHistorian Jon Wiener Discusses His Latest Book Set The Night On Fire: LA In The SixtiesIn this interview Maggie focuses on "The Many Faces of Women's Liberation" starting in the early 1960's. Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis and Jon WienerNow available in paperback. A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and...
2021-08-1731 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueMichelle Coltrane On Alice Coltrane's New Recording Kirtan: Turiya SingsAlice Coltrane’s ashram album Kirtan: Turiya Sings gets first release.Michelle Coltrane joins Maggie to discuss her Mother's latest release from Impulse! Records Kirtan: Turiya Sings . After releasing the wondrous Transfiguration in 1978, documenting a live concert with drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Reggie Workman, Alice Coltrane retreated from public life to serve as swamini in an ashram she founded in Agoura Hills, California. Though she resurfaced briefly at John Coltrane tribute concerts during the 1990s and released a...
2021-08-1724 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueShepard Fairey Speaks About His Musical & Artistic InfluencesShepard Fairey is an American graphic artist and social activist who is part of the Street Art movement along with other artists including Banksy and Mr.Brainwash. Fairey blurs the boundary between traditional and commercial art through type and image, communicating his brand of social critique via prints, murals, stickers, and posters in public spaces. “Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions,” he stated. Born on February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina, Fairey graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992 where he earn...
2021-08-0432 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueThe Collected Works Of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, And Lyrics With Writer & Editor Frank LisciandroMaggie LePique speaks with filmmaker, writer, photographer Frank Lisciandro who edited the beautiful new book and New York Times Bestseller, The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and LyricsThe definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison’s estate and inspired by a posthumously discovered list entitled “Plan for Book,” The Collected Works of Jim Morrison is an almost 600-page anthology of the writings of the late poet a...
2021-08-0339 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueWriter/Illustrator Peter H Reynolds On Cat Steven's Peace Train (The Illustrated Book)Hop aboard the Peace Train in this picture book adaptation of Cat Stevens’s legendary anthem of unity and harmony in time for the song’s 50th anniversary! With illustrations by New York Times bestselling illustrator Peter H. Reynolds.“Now I've been happy latelyThinking about the good things to comeAnd I believe it could beSomething good has begunOh, I've been smiling latelyDreaming about the world as oneAnd I believe it could beSome...
2021-07-2726 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueJackson Browne On 2021 Album "Downhill From Everywhere"Jackson Browne on his first release in nearly 6 years, Downhill From Everywhere.Release date July 23, 2021.Nearly five decades since his debut LP, the songs on Jackson Browne’s new album Downhill From Everywhere sustain the soulful intimacy of his first release, combined with a power and wisdom gained from a life pursuing positive change. Label: Inside Recordings Produced by Jackson BrowneRecorded and Mixed by Kevin SmithSource: https://www.jacksonbrowne.com/discography/downhill-from-everywhere/JB Store: https://shop.jacksonbrowne.com/collections/albums?page=2This...
2021-07-1728 minProfiles With Maggie LePiqueAhmet Zappa On Frank Zappa's "The Roxy Performances" Box SetAhmet Zappa speaks on the re-release of his father Frank Zappa's "The Roxy Performances" recordings. On February 2, 2018, Zappa Records/UMe released The Roxy Performances, a definitive seven-CD box set that collects all four public shows from December 9-10, 1973, and the December 8th film shoot/soundcheck, each presented in their entirety for the first time, along with bonus content featuring rarities from a rehearsal, unreleased tracks and highlights from the Bolic Studios recording session. This complete collection, totaling nearly eight hours, documents the Roxy shows as they happened and presents brand new 2016...
2021-07-1733 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueRy Cooder On New Mixes For Buenos Hermanos With Ibrahim FerrerIn 2003 Ibrahim released his second solo album for World Circuit, ‘Buenos Hermanos,’ an album that is firmly rooted in tradition but at the same time expands the horizons of Cuban music with its varied repertoire, or as Ry Cooder simply put it, ‘I think the album’s a goddam classic.’ The album received almost universal praise, going on to win both GRAMMY and Latin Grammy awards. The album was reissued in early 2020 with new mixes of the full album overseen by Ry Cooder, and with 4 previously unheard tracks from the original studio sessions.Source: http://www.buenavistasocialclub.com/albums/bue...
2021-07-0339 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueEngineer Mario McNulty On David Bowie's Loving The Alien Box SetBased in New York City, Mario J. McNulty is a Grammy Award-winning music producer, mixer and engineer who’s worked with David Bowie, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Laurie Anderson, Harry Nilsson, Julian Lennon, Justin Tranter, Raveonettes and many other well-known artists.At the 50th Grammy Awards ceremony, Mario J. McNulty won a Grammy in the Best Contemporary World Music category for Angelique Kidjo’s Djin Djin. Other Grammy nominated albums include Homeland by Laurie Anderson and The Next Day by David Bowie.Source: http://jdmanagement.com/mariojmcnulty/...
2021-07-0326 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueDrummer Carmine Appice On Guitar Zeus Album & Legendary CareerCarmine Appice on his early days with Cactus, Beck Bogart & Appice, Vanilla Fudge and eventually working with Rod Stewart and co-writing "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" As drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice set the grooves for the groundbreaking band‘s 1967 psychedelic debut, inadvertently inventing Stoner Rock in the process. The Fudge had no precedent. The band was totally unique. No rock group, up until that point, had ever so lugubriously s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out well-known pop tunes like the Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” and “Ticket To Ride,” Curtis Mayfield‘s “People Get Ready,” Sonny & Cher‘s “Bang Bang” Rod Argent‘s “She‘s Not Th...
2021-06-1830 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueFrank Sinatra Archivist Charles Pignone On 60th Anniversary Of Nice & EasyMaggie LePique speaks with Sinatra archivist Charlie Pignone about Capitol/UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises celebration of the 60th anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s Nice ‘n’ Easy, another iconic album in a series of collaborations between Sinatra and arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle with a special anniversary edition.Originally released on Capitol Records in July 1960, the Nice 'n' Easy album topped the charts at #1 for nine weeks. The album was nominated for multiple Grammys, including Album of the Year, Best Male Vocal Performance, and Best Arrangement (Nelson Riddle). Since its original release, Sinatra’s body of work sti...
2021-06-1832 min
Profiles With Maggie LePiqueDon Was On Producing Gregg Allman's Final RecordingDon Was On Producing Gregg Allman's Final Recording Southern Blood. Southern Blood is the final studio album from rock and roll legend, Gregg Allman. Produced by Don Was and recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL at the renowned Fame Studios. With contributions from Gregg's friends and compatriots, including The McCrary Sisters, Buddy Miller, and Jackson Browne, Southern Blood is a true testament to a legendary career.Don Was gives personal insights into working with Gregg and how many years this project took to finally complete, not knowing this would be Gregg's final studio recording. Gregg Allman made h...
2021-06-0831 min