Rabble Without A Cause is a program devoted to the Avantgarde side of Jazz.
Hosted by: Bernard Stepien, David Broscoe and Zach Baird
Airs: Every Wednesday from 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM

Join Bernard Stepien and David Broscoe for avant-garde Jazz, live performances by local and international musicians and analysis of new currents thoughout the history of Jazz.

Rabble Without A Cause

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Jan. 16, 2019	Jean-Michel Labatut	A Trio For The Ages	available
Jan. 9, 2019	Ron Steeds	Two January 9 sessions recorded ten years apart - 2001 and 2011.	available
Jan. 2, 2019	Jim Reil	Improvised music from the versatile and inventive Ingrid Laubrock and an all-star band	available
Dec. 26, 2018	Ron Steeds	John Carter and two Moers Music recordings	available
Dec. 19, 2018	Jean-Michel Labatut	Angles 9 Injuries	available
Dec. 12, 2018	Jim Reil	Sun Ra Live and Wild, New Year's Eve 1973	available

Rabble Without a Cause features:

Avant-garde Jazz

Live performances of local and international Musicians

The analysis of new currents thoughout the history of Jazz

Rabble Without A Cause is a program devoted to the Avantgarde side of Jazz. It features Jazz Avantgarde music of all times. Forexample, Louis Armstrong was an avangarde artist when he first played West End Blues in 1921 !

Duke Ellington, the most intensive innovator of Jazz History has been a perpetual avantgardist creating sound textures, styles that were constantly sounding new. Jazz Avantgarde has exploded since the early '60 when a score of very creative musicians from John Coltrane to Charles Mingus to Cecil Taylor to Anthony Braxton and to a lots of canadian musicians including Peggy Lee.

RWAC features programs with biographical details of musicians, analysis, interviews and live on air performances of local musicians such as Billy Robinson, Kenji Omae, John Geggie, Rody Ellias, Steve Groves, Petr Cancura, GleBop, Anna Williams, Dan Friedman, Peter Turner, Linsey Wellman, Mike Essoudry and more to come!