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

Rabble Without A Cause

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Sep. 20, 2017	Jim Reil	James Blood Ulmer's classic 1980 recording Are You Glad To Be In America	available
Sep. 6, 2017	Bernard Stepien	Jimmy Giuffre and André Jaume duo concert	available
Aug. 23, 2017	Jim Reil	A classic Cecil Taylor Unit recording	available
Aug. 16, 2017	Jean-Michel Labatut	The art of improvisation	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!