Stacey Kent

Singer Stacey Kent talks about her new CD, Breakfast on the Morning Tram. Stacey will be performing In New York at Birdland from November 27 through December 2.

http://www.staceykent.com/

Luc Sante

Luc Sante Guggenheim Fellow, frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and author of the classic Low Life, talks about his work from 1990-2005 and his new collection of pieces from that time, Kill All Your Darlings.

Henry Petroski and Marilyn Maye

Professor of civil engineering (Duke) /author Henry Petroski returns to the program to talk about his latest book, The Toothpick: Technology and Culture.
plus
Singer Marilyn Maye visits to talk about her tribute to Johnny Carson (she was on the Tonight Show 70+ times). Marilyn will be performing at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan from Nov. 7 - 19. Don't miss this entertainment powerhouse!!
The Metropolitan Room is at 34 West 22nd St between 5th & 6th Ave. - New York, NY 10010 - Tel: 212 206 0440

http://metropolitanroom.com/index.php?Itemid=111&id=77&option=com_content&task=view
http://metropolitanroom.com/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=98&extmode=cal&date=2007-11-01

Daniel J. Levitin

Daniel J. Levitin is at McGill University,where he studies studies the science of musical sound, using a broad spectrum of approaches from low-levels (genes, neuroanatomy) to higher level processes such as the acquisition of musical expertise and the perception of musical emotion.

He discusses his work and his new book This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (now in paperback).

Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication
Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise
Department of Psychology, McGill University

His research http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/levitin/

Jason Moran and Rodolphe Marconi

Jazz pianist Jason Moran returns to the program to discuss IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall 1959. IN MY MIND is multi-media performance co-commissioned by Duke Univ., The San Francisco Jazz Festival, Chicago Symphony Hall, and the Washington Perf. Arts Society.
October 27, 2007 will be the world premire at the Page Auditorium in Durham, NC.
October 28, 2007 at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC
November 2, 2007, at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
November 16, 2007, at the Symphony Hall in Chicago, IL

Then Rodolphe Marconi, the the director of Lagerfeld Confidential, a profile of "the Bismarck of Fashion,"(Vanity Fair) Karl Lagerfeld, visits to talk about the making of his film. Lagerfeld Confidential premieres the Film Forum in Manhattan on Wednesday, Oct. 24.

http://www.jasonmoran.com/home.html
http://www.filmforum.org/films/lagerfeld.html

Ben Ratliff

New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff returns to the program to talk about his new book, Coltrane:The Story of a Sound.

COME MEET BEN AND HEAR HIM READ FROM THE BOOK!
Thursday, Oct.4 at . 7:00 PM. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave. betw. 21st and 22nd Sts. 212.255.4022.Reservations requested.

Ron Carter and Jean-Luc Ponty - JVC Jazz Festival Special!

Our first guest will be legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter . He will perform on Wednesday June 27 at Carnegie Hall (57th Street & 7th Avenue, New York, NY , 8pm) in a concert celebrating his 70th birthday.

Ron Carter's new CD, Dear Miles, is just out this week. It includes 2 original compositions by Carter. Along with him on bass are Stephen Scott on piano, Payton Crossley on drums, and Roger Squitero on percussion.


Second in the lineup is violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, who made his mark playing early in his career with Al Di Meola and Stanley Clarke, Frank Zappa, and others.
He will also be performing on Wednesday June 27, at Zankel Hall (57th Street & 7th Avenue,
New York, NY, 8:30pm). His new album, The Atacama Experience, has just been released.

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Wednesday, June 27th 2007
Ron Carter: The Master @ 70
Ron Carter & Friends
Quartet with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter & Billy Cobham
Trio with Mulgrew Miller & Russell Malone
Duets with Jim Hall
New Quartet with Stephen Scott, Payton Crossley & Rolando Morales
Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY
8pm
http://www.festivalproductions.net/jvcjazz/ny/schedule_flt2.php?Detail=112
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Wednesday, June 27th 2007
An Evening With Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty & His Band
Zankel Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY
8:30pm
http://www.festivalproductions.net/jvcjazz/ny/schedule_flt2.php?Detail=196
http://www.ponty.com/
http://www.festivalproductions.net/jvcjazz/ny/schedule.php?ID=4

Bruce Weber, Jeff Preiss, and Tom Bissell

Let's Get Lost... Bruce Weber and Jeff Preiss, the director and Director of Photography of this epic documetary on the self destructive genius that was jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, visit. A newly-restored copy of the film is showing after a 14 year absence at the Film Forum in Manhattan. Gorgeous film + subject, great music. See it!
http://www.filmforum.org/films/letsgetlost.html

Then, McSweeney's/Believer writer and author of The Father of All Things : A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam Tom Bissell stops by for a chat.

Mary Wilson and Jack Beatty

Singer Mary Wilson of the Supremes talks about her new and long-awaited career as a ballad singer. Mary will be appearing at Feinstein's at the Loew's Regency Hotel in Manhattan from June 19th through the 30th.
http://www.feinsteinsattheregency.com/
http://www.marywilson.com/v1/

Then, a visit from Jack Beatty, senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and news analyst for NPR's On Point public affairs and news program. His new book, The Age of Betrayal:The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900, is a brilliant reconsideration of the Gilded Age in America.

Dori Hadar, Mingering Mike, and Dennis Geronimus

Rediscovered Art Night!
The evening starts out with Dori Hadar, private investigator, DJ and record collector. Mr. Hadar discovered a trove of hand-rendered album covers with cardboard records inside, along with homemade cardboard 45's and 8-tracks, all by someone identified as "Mingering Mike." A book of these unusual artworks was recently published - Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar - and tonight Dori Hadar and Mingering Mike himself visit the program.

After that, NYU assistant Professor of Fine Arts Dennis Geronimus champions the art of Piero di Cosimo. His new book, Piero di Cosimo, Visions Beautiful and Strange, challenges much of the (scarce) scholarship on this artist.

http://www.mingeringmike.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Mingering-Mike-Amazing-Imaginary-Superstar/dp/156898569X
http://www.myspace.com/mingeringmike

http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks/book.asp?ISBN=0300109113

Events!

FILM

At Film Forum (209 W Houston St, New York, NY. Box Office: (212) 727-8110):

Alberto Lattuada’s MAFIOSO, starring Alberto Sordi, in exclusive return engagement
at Film Forum May 23-June 7.
If you haven't seen this one and you're a fan of great comedy and/or Italian film, GO! You won't believe you didn't know about this one!!
http://www.filmforum.org
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MUSIC

The LA based pianist Jeff Lorber, who rarely
ventures east, is in town for a solo gig at the Blue Note on Monday, June 4.
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MAGNUM FESTIVAL: Special Events

Celebrate the legendary photo agency's 60th anniversary with special events and exhibitions;

New York Public Library
Magnum @ 60
With the advent of the “digital revolution” and “citizen journalism,” more people are taking pictures and telling/sharing stories than ever before. Now, the power of photography has been thrown into a new light and traditional photojournalism must answer new questions. How does this democracy change the role of the journalist? Will traditional photojournalism have a place in the future? Magnum Photos and Live from the NYPL consider the future of Magnum and the face of photography within this rapidly developing landscape.
Saturday June 16th, 7pm
$15 through www.nypl.org/live

Half King
Drinks with Magnum
Join Magnum photographers, family, and friends for spirits and conversation .
Tuesday June 19th, 7--9pm
Half King Bar and Restaurant
505 W 23rd Street
New York, NY
www.thehalfking.com

Strand Books
Magnum at the Strand
Representing the latest in Magnum’s history of seminal photo books, Elliott Erwitt, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Webb, and others sign copies of their newest releases on the second floor Photography Department of Strand Books. Wine and cheese reception.
Monday June 11th, 7--8:30pm
Strand Books
828 Broadway (at 12th Street)
New York, NY

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Bill Charlap and Julia Loktev

Jazz pianist supreme Bill Charlap visits the Speakeasy to talk about his music. Charlap's new CD, On May 22, Blue Note Records will release Charlap's first live recording date, Bill Charlap Trio-Live at The Village Vanguard, a nine-song snapshot of the New York-born and -based pianist who supplies a rigor-meets-romance musical sensibility. The date features tunes from such renowned jazz composers as Gerry Mulligan and Jim Hall and music from the Great American Songbook. The live recording is produced by Joel Moss, who also recorded and mixed the album.

Charlap also begins an engagement with his trio of himself, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Kenny Washington, at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola on May 22 running through June 3. Don't miss this dynamic trio!
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway @ 60th Street, 5th Floor
Showtimes 7:30 & 9:30 PM
Additional set Friday & Saturday @ 9:30 PM
Phone: 212-258-9595
Website: www.jalc.org/dccc


Then filmmaker Julia Loktev discusses her film Day Night Day Night, in which A 19-year-old girl starts down the path to a suicide mission in Times Square. The film won the Youth Prize, at the Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival.

Kevin Phillips and Neal Pollack

Former Republican party strategist Kevin Phillips discusses his latest book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury.
then, Alternadad Neal Pollack visits.

Lee Marvin special wth guest Pamela Marvin

Bruce Bennett cohosts another film-fact- & fun-filled hour as the Speakeasy celebrates screen legend Lee Marvin. Marvin's widow, Pamela Feeley Marvin, is a special guest.

Pamela Feeley Marvin and Lee Marvin fell in love in 1945, when she was 15 and he was a 21-year-old Marine Corps. veteran; and parted in 1948 when Lee left Woodstock, New York, to pursue his acting career. In 1970, both divorced with children, they met again, married, and remained together until Lee Marvin's death in 1987. She has written a book about her late husband, LEE: A ROMANCE, appears in John Boorman's film LEE MARVIN: A PERSONAL PORTRAIT, and will introduce screenings of Marvin's films during the Film Society of Lincoln Center's upcoming Lee Marvin tribute at the Walter Reade Theater, which runs from May 11-24.

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/leemarvin.html

Katie Gentile

Psychologist (and rock violinist) Katie Gentile talks about Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival, in which she analyzes a lifelong diary of a woman with bulimia.

Eric Spilker

Film distributer and historian Eric Spilker joins Bruce Bennett and Dorian as they discuss B musicals . The Film Forum in Manhattan will be featuring some of these in a program entitles, appropriately, B Musicals, which will run from March 30 -April 19.

http://www.filmforum.org/films/bmusicalsfilms.html#42

Jonathan Lethem and Swanee Hunt

Author Jonathan Lethem discusses his newest novel, You Don't Love Me Yet.
Then,
philanthrpist and ambassador Swanee Hunt talk about her work and her book, Half-Life of a Zealot.

John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey

Vocalist Jessica Molaskey and jazz guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli have the most sophisticated husband and wife musical act around.This week they visit The Speakeasy.

From Tuesday May 1 through Saturday May 26, you can catch it at the Cafe Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel.
John Pizarelli's new album , Dear Mr. Sinatra, is made up of songs written for or otherwise associated with Frank Sinatra.
Jessica Molaskey's latest album, Sitting in Limbo, covers ground ranging from Jimmy Cliff to the Five Stairsteps to Regina / Jobim.

They also collborat on their nationally syndicated radio program, Radio Deluxe.

http://www.jessicamolaskey.com/
http://www.johnpizzarelli.com/
http://www.thecarlyle.com/entertainment.cfm
http://www.jessicamolaskey.com/radio-delux.html

Janna Levin

It's WOMEN IN SCIENCE NIGHT on The Speakeasy!

First, physicist Janna Levin visits to talk about her research (areas of which include black holes, the finite universe and theories of everything) & her latest book, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. The book is a fictional account of the lives of mathematicians Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.
http://www.jannalevin.com/
then,
mathematician Cathleen Morawetz, Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and winner of the National Medal of Science in 1998.
http://www.nyu.edu/nyutoday/archives/17/09/Stories/Morawetz.html

Ken Smith emcees - pledge to the Speakeasy!

It is that time again - the 2007 fundraising marathon starts today! Duck hunting buddy Ken Smith joins in on the merriment and grovelling!

Call our phones lines during the Speakeasy 6-7 PM Eastern TIme Monday) at 800-989-9368. Or pledge online, and be sure to put in the comments that you are pledging to the Speakeasy.
If you call or e-pledge while the show is going on, you get in the running for various giveaways during the hour.

A pledge of $75 will net you the exclusive Speakeasy premium "Easy Speakin'" A selection of interviews from The Speakeasy, including some all-new non-broadcast material, available only on CD! You'll also get a plethora of other fun stuff, and can also select this as one of your choices with some larger pledges.

More details on the WFMU marathon are avaialable at http://www.wfmu.org/ .

Remember - we are listener-sponsored and all of the pledge money goes toward operation of this great station!

Steve Kuhn and Joseph Epstein

Legendary jazz pianist Steve Kuhn returns to The Speakeasy (after his all-too-brief visit during the WFMU fundraising marathon) to discuss his career, his trio with Al Foster and Ron Carter, and his new CD with the trio, Live at Birdland(Blue Note).
Steve will be performing March 20 h at Dizzy's Coca Cola Club (NYC) w/ Sheila Jordan (voice), David Finck (bass), and Billy Drummond (drums), and March 21-24 it's back to Birdland with w/ Javon Jackson (tenor),Buster Williams (bass) and Al Foster (drums).
Don't miss this great performer!
http://stevekuhnmusic.com/

then, a repeat broadcast of Joseph Epstein on Friendship, in honor of all the friends of WFMU who pledged this year.

A BIG THANK YOU you to everyone who pledged to WFMU and helped us meet our goal in 2007.!!!
And thanks especially to those who pledged to this program.

Bruce Bennett emcees - Steve Kuhn guest - Pledge to the Speakeasy!

It's still marathon time (WFMU's 2007 fundraising marathon). Film critic and regular cohost Bruce Bennett joins as emcee!

Jazz pianist Steve Kuhn is our live phone guest at midpoint for spell. His new CD Live at Birdland (Blue Note) has just come out, and he will actually be performing at Birdland (NYC) from March 13-17 with w/ Ron Carter on bass and Al Foster on drums. On March 20 he will be at Dizzy's Coca Cola Club (NYC) w/ Sheila Jordan (voice), David Finck (bass), and Billy Drummond (drums), and March 21-24 it's back to Birdland with w/ Javon Jackson (tenor),Buster Williams (bass) and Al Foster (drums).
Don't miss this great performer!
http://stevekuhnmusic.com/

Lots of film talk from Bruce & Dorian scattered throughout!

Call our phones lines during the Speakeasy 6-7 PM Eastern Time Monday) at 800-989-9368. Or pledge online, and be sure to put in the comments that you are pledging to the Speakeasy.
If you call or e-pledge while the show is going on, you get in the running for various giveaways during the hour.

A pledge of $75 will net you the exclusive Speakeasy premium "Easy Speakin'" A selection of interviews from The Speakeasy, including some all-new non-broadcast material, available only on CD! You'll also get a plethora of other fun stuff, and can also select this as one of your choices with some larger pledges.

More details on the WFMU marathon are avaialable at http://www.wfmu.org/ .

Remember - we are listener-sponsored and all of the pledge money goes toward operation of this great station!

UPCOMING GUESTS and EVENTS