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

Coming up at 11:00 PM on November 14th, 2018:
Ron Steeds features a duo concert performed by pianist John Tilbury (employing a prepared piano and a non-prepared piano) and trumpeter Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith at Bishopsgate in London on November 14, 2012. Expect the unexpected.

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Nov. 7, 2018	Jean-Michel Labatut	Jean Derome and Louis Sclavis live at the 18th Victoriaville International Jazz festival (2001)	available
Oct. 31, 2018	Jean-Michel Labatut & Ron Steeds	Funding Drive Episode #2	available
Oct. 24, 2018	Ron Steeds	Funding Drive Episode #1	available
Oct. 17, 2018	Jim Reil	Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun	available
Oct. 10, 2018	Bernard Stepien	Cecil Taylor tribute: Winged Serpent	available
Oct. 3, 2018	Ron Steeds	Ron chats with Ernesto Cervini	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!