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

Join Ron Steeds for avant-garde Jazz, live performances by local and international musicians and analysis of new currents throughout the history of Jazz.

Rabble Without A Cause

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Date	Host	Highlight	On Demand
Oct. 13, 2021	Ron Steeds	Two Duos Record October 13	available
Oct. 6, 2021	Ron Steeds	Franz Koglmann records CANTOS I-IV for the hat ART record label on October 5-8, 1992.	available
Sep. 22, 2021	Ron Steeds	The Music Of Jemeel Moondoc	available
Sep. 15, 2021	Ron Steeds	IF THERE WERE NO OPPOSITES recorded by the Nick Fraser Quartet for the HAT HUT - EZZ-THETICS label	available
Sep. 8, 2021	Ron Steeds	Kaiso Stories	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!