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

Coming up at 11:00 PM on July 28th, 2021:
BERNARD'S GREATEST HITS: Tonight we air an archived episode of Rabble Without A Cause hosted by Bernard that he called "Beach Combers Treasure Trove" which originally aired August 26, 2015.

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Jul. 21, 2021	Ron Steeds	Two CIMP recordings made July 21 - one in 1997 and one in 1998	available
Jul. 14, 2021	Ron Steeds	Evan Parker, Barry Guy, and Paul Lytton record MUSIC FOR DAVID MOSSMAN on July 14, 2016 for the Intakt label.	available
Jul. 7, 2021	Ron Steeds	Ken Vandermark's Sound In Action Trio recorded DESIGN IN TIME on July 6&7, 1999 for the Delmark label.	available
Jun. 30, 2021	Bernard Stepien	Local musician Doug Martin’s new CD Spirit of Survival
Jun. 23, 2021	Ron Steeds	The Music Of Benoit Delbecq, born June 6, 1966.	available
Jun. 16, 2021	Ron Steeds	Detroit-based Faruq Z Bey and the Northwoods Improvisors record 19 MOONS on June 16, 2001 for the Entropy label.	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!