A weekly one-hour program focused on jazz and improvised music, news, radio, conversations, and more. Tune in for new releases, news about the people, eco-systems, history, and culture of jazz and improvised music. Hosted by Cheryl K., host of "The Jazz Disturbance" every Sunday on WGXC-FM.

"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.Laura Kuhn presents the first recording of John Cages Europera 5, preceded by her reading Recollections of the Premiere Performance by Yvar Mikhashoff. This recording of Europera 5 was produced by Brian Brandt and released on the Mode Records label as Mode 36 in 1995, with performers Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, Gary Burgess, Jan Williams, and Don Metz. Europera 5 is the last and most diminutive of Cages operas " preceded by Europeras 1 & 2 (1984-1987) and Europeras 3 & 4 (1991) " and was instigated by pianist Yvar Mikashoffs desire for a small, more practical and portable, and more easily performed work in the series, which had its premiere in Buffalo at the North American New Musical Festival on April 12, 1991.

Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner, Andy Stuhl, and Jess Speer. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.

"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers similar to "Dr. Demento" and comedy skits and more. The show airs at 3 p.m. Thursdays on WGXC, 2 p.m. Fridays on WBAI, and also most weeks on WGRN, WRWK, KFUG, KACR, KRFP-LP, KMSW, and many other stations. Produced by Tom Roe at Wave Farm and WGXC. For more information go to: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/93bbe3

Islamic Scholar, Director of the Institute for Contemporary Islamic Thought, and editor at Crescent Online, Zafar Bangash, provides an update on "The Islamic Zone:" what is happening in Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan?

Po-tayy-toh Po-tot-oh, either way you like it, we'll look at some odd songs about Potatos, a Man from Uncle and many other TV shows, conducts the hits for your ears (can you hear the wand moving?) and speaking of celebs, we DARE to bring you two Celebrity Slip Ups this week...and an interesting combination we think.

Host Stuart Richardson interviews Bruce Gagnon, co-founder and coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, he fights the reach of corporate greed into space. We give a historical perspective on the Russia/Ukraine conflict, how events escalated since 2014 and how/why the US/NATO is prolonging this war. the US is not helping Ukraine flight Russia, the US is using Ukraine to fight Russia How this war impacts the people of the world and the evil and apathy of our leaders misguided priorities. We speak about the lack of a Peace movement while we flirt with nuclear war and the failings of civil society and people of the faith community. I give an open invitation, if your promoting peace in anyway let me know at latinwaves@gmail.com and I will work with you. https://space4peace.org/bruce-gagnon/ Consider Supporting the show by becoming a Member of Latin Waves https://latinwavesmedia.com/

Presents French inventor Maurice Martenot and his Ondes Martenot electronic instrument of 1928.

Presents crossover trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.

Features saxophonist Eddie Harris and his early experimentation with electronic devices.

Presents the current state of mainstream jazz.

Presents Leon Theramin's invention of the Theramin-Vox in 1920.

Discusses the evolution of jazz fusion in the late 1960's.

Features programmed music in electronic jazz.

About the evolution of smooth jazz from jazz fusion.

About guitarist Carlos Santana and his fusion of rock music and Latin jazz.

Jair Bolsonaro is a fascist and we should all be concerned as the most important election in the Americas is in Brazil. Brazils presidential elections will begin with an epochal showdown between popular left-wing ex-President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva and far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will have ramifications across the globe. Why the very lungs of the planet, the Amazon is at stake as Bolsonaro has given his blessings to armed criminal actors to seize the land and through slash-and-burn methods and conduct illegal mining for years waging all our war against Amazonian Indigenous peoples, who struggle to protect the forest.

As Ukraine War intensifies, New Poll Finds Americans Want US to Pursue Talks to End the Conflict; Polls Get it Wrong in Brazil’s First Round Presidential Election; Climate Groups Defeat Joe Manchin's Fossil Fuel Friendly "Dirty Deal" Legislation.

Support for the journalist and publisher of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange focused on rallies in London and Washington DC on October 8, 2022. The former war correspondent and author Chris Hedges gave the most eloquent summary of the situation. A new generation of journalists is coming out in support of Assange. Taylor Hudak is an American-Hungarian journalist and covers human rights, free speech, press freedom, US foreign policy and corruption. She produces video reports and interviews for the online publication acTVism Munich. She was invited to speak about Julian Assange at the Better Way Conference in Vienna on September 29, 2022. Ten days earlier Chris Hedges was the guest of Project Censored. Director Mickey Huff asked him about Julian Assange. He was recorded on September 19, 2022 Concluding this broadcast is Stella Morris, the wife of Julian Assange, attorney and mother of their two children. She is fighting with him for his release from prison and against his extradition to the US. Throughout this program rallies on October 8, 2022, are mentioned. Plans are to surround the Parliament building in London and the Department of Justice in Washington DC, calling on Attorney General Garland to drop the charges against Assange.

Sunsara Taylor gives important context to the protests in Iran. Then, Andy Zee reads from the Revcom's statement on Iran: "THE WOMEN OF IRAN HAVE STOOD UP!..." Next, Bob Avakian: "Free Yourself from the GTF" and "America: Leader of the Free World?" excerpts from 2017 speech “The Trump Pence Regime Must Go.” Raymond Lotta interviewed by Andy Zee on “Biden's Imperialist Climate Bill,” Part 3. Finally, Sunsara Taylor: Learning about Bill Russell, Reflecting on Bob Avakian's Leadership.