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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 guitarist John
Abercrombie, the band Adelaide, saxophonist Mellisa Aldana, pianist Joey Alexander, pianist Tristan Allen, violinist Francesca Anderegg, sound artist Ellen
Band, pianist/composer Nik Bartsch, composer Brian Baumbusch, new music presenter John Bechard, cellist Maya Beiser, violinist Joshua Bell,
composer/clarinetist Derek Bermel, multi-instrumentalist Alexander Berne,
saxophonist Tim Berne, music writer Bill Beuttler, composer/vocalist Lisa Bielawa, producer Martin
Bisi, soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom, guitarist/composer Jakob Bro, improvising keyboardist Dave Bryant, guitarist/composer Brendan Burns, pianist Sarah Cahill, composer Chris Campbell, Catalyst Quartet/Paul Laraia, composer Eric Chasalow, composer/pianist/audio technologist
David Chesky, violinist Daniel Ching (Miro Quartet), clarinetist Anat Cohen, violinist/arranger/composer Jeremy Cohen, pianist/composer Marc Copland,
keyboardist/bandleader Chick Corea, pianist/bandleader Bill Cunliffe, clarinetist/composer Beth Custer, Italian pianist/composer Ivan Dalia, pianist/composer Kris Davis, composer Anthony Paul DeRitis, violinist Gabriela Diaz, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, performance venue founder Michael Dorf, from
Morocco the El Arabi-Serghini Trio, clarinetist/composer James Falzone, violist & Ethel co-founder Ralph Farris, trombonist/composer/producer Joe Fiedler,
bassist Michael Formanek, pianist/composer Danny Fox, pianist/composer Laszlo Gardony, saxophonist George Garzone, pianist Lafayette Gilchrist, pianist/composer Tord Gustavsen, violinist Hilary Hahn, Armenian pianist & composer Tigran Hamasayan, pianist/composer Mitch Hampton, Pulizer Prize
winning composer John Harbison, composer/percussionist Reynaliz Herrera, pianist/composer Fred Hersch, pianist/composer Laurence Hobgood, guitarist/composer Eric Hofbauer, drummer/composer/bandleader John
Hollenbeck, flautist/composer Hiro Honshuku, composer Robert Honstein, tabla master Zakir Hussein, pianist/Moogist/composer Kari Ikonen, composer/pianist Vijay Iyer, flutist/composer Gina Izzo, sound artist Christopher Janney, bassist Marc Johnson, guitarist Glenn Jones, Iranian composer/musician Kayhan Kalhor,
violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch, guitarist/composer/instrument designer Kevin Kastning, composer Darrell Katz, composer/pianist Omer Klein, composer/saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase, shakuhachi master
Yoshio Kurahashi, multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Lamaster, composer, saxophonist, & electronic musician Neil Leonard, cellist/composer Daniel Levin, flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert, composer/pianist Erik Lindgren, saxophonist/composer
Charles Lloyd, saxophonist Joe Lovano, composer/pianist Moira Lo Bianco, Parma Recordings owner Bob Lord, saxophonist Jessica Lurie, composer & technologist Tod Machover, pianist/composer Shai Maestro, composer Keeril Makan, trombonist/composer/producer Delfeayo Marsalis, composer/percussionist Barrett Martin,
saxophonist Donny McCaslin, pianist/composer Myra Melford, drummer/composer Allison Miller,
multi-instrumentalist/composer Ben Miller, guitarist/pianist/composer Roger Miller, drummer Michal Miskiewicz (Tomasz
Stanko), pianist/composer Chase Morrin, composer/conductor Butch Morris, composer Erica Muhl, percussionist/composer Tom Nazziola, composer/guitarist David
Nichtern, percussionist Brian O'Neill, composer/pianist Fernando Otero,
drummer Toss Panos, composer Taylor Joshua Rankin, composer/multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry, bassist/composer Bruno Raberg, composer David Rakowski, guitarist/composer Jussi
Reijonen, new music duo RighteousGIRLS (Gina Izzo & Erika Dohi), Boston Modern Orchestra Director Gil Rose, composer/saxophonist
Mathew Rosenblum, pianist/composer Oscar Rossignoli, multi-genre violinist/composer DBR (Daniel Bernard
Roumaine), percussionist Adam Rudolph, musician/composer/actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, electronic musician Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) with saxophonist/sound artist Neil Leonard, educator/composer Ken Schaphorst, sound artist Michael J. Schumacher, cellist Inbal Segev, clarinetist David Shifrin, ukulelist & composer Jake Shimabukuro, trombonist/composer/bandleader Naomi Moon Siegel, composer & pianist Robert Sirota, trombonist Brett
Sroka, guitarist/composer Joshua Stamper, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, pianist Bobo Stenson,
saxophonist/composer Colin Stetson, electronic musician Carl Stone, ney player Fred Stubbs, composer/pianist William Sussman, bassist Steve
Swallow, pianist John Thomas, composer/guitarist David Torn, guitarist/composer Ralph Towner, fiddler
& electronic musician Dan Trueman, composer & music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko, composer Ken Ueno, composer/shakuhachi master Kojiro Umezaki, saxophonist Laura Venditti, composer Patricia
Van Ness, saxophonist & composer Timo Vollbrecht, vibist Marc Wagnon with bassist Percy Jones, percussionist/composer Michael Waldrop, composer Michael Whalen, composer Scott Wheeler, percussionist Ken Winokur, composer Conrad Winslow, composer Scott Wollschleger, bassist Randy Wong, guitarist Fred Woodard,
clarinetist/composer/gamelanista Evan Ziporyn, four-handed piano duo ZOFO (Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi).
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.
Also airing on
92.1 FM, WOMR, Wednesday nights from
midnight-2am EST.
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You can view weekly
playlists for The New Edge beginning at the show's
inception in August 2002.
Digital submissions only please - send streaming preview link and download link (44.1/16 wav STRONGLY preferred) by email, along with one-sheet press release including tracks list, personnel, and label/label url.
E-mail me at newedge@wmbr.org.
Or text me when I'm on the air at 617-253-8810. Or write me at:
Ken Field
The New Edge
WMBR 88.1FM
142 Memorial Drive, Room 050-030
Cambridge MA 02139
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Photo credit: Jed Hickson
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