WKCR Guests, Alumni & Notable Listeners

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Guests

• David Amram

Claudio Arrau ('62)

• Chet Atkins (‘88)
• Derek Bailey ('95, '01)
• Aston “Family Man” Barrett
• Ray Barretto ('04)
• Debashish Bhattacharya
• Bobby 'Blue' Bland (‘85)
• Art Blakey (‘79, ‘89)
• Pierre Boulez
• Juliette Binoche
• Yefim Bronfman
• James Brown (‘99)
• Pucho Brown (‘05)

William F. Buckley, Jr. ('62)

• John Cage (’87)
• Elliott Carter
• Ron Carter (‘85)
• Samir Chatterjee
• Stanley Clarke (‘73)
• Buck Clayton (‘86)
• Vassar Clements
• Gary Cohen ('04)
• Fidel Castro (‘58)
• George Clinton ('89, '90, ...'06)
• David Cobb
• Albert Collins (’85)
• Willie Colón
• Ravi Coltrane
• Johnny Copeland (‘82, ‘83, ‘84, ‘85, ‘86, ‘87)
• James Cotton ('05)
• Dr. John (‘85)
• Dave Douglas ('06)
• Bo Diddley (‘05)
• Bill Dixon (‘05)
• Willie Dixon (’83)
• Sammy Dread
• Sly Dunbar
• David “Honeyboy” Edwards (’77)
• Duke Ellington (‘74)
• Bill Evans (‘84)
• Sir Richard Eyre
• Colin Firth
• Bela Fleck (‘99)
• Phillip Frazier
• John Eliot Gardiner
• Stan Getz (‘89)
• Dizzy Gillespie (‘87)
• Philip Glass (78, 79, 80)
• Milford Graves
• Ghostface Killah (‘05)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt ('06)
• Buddy Guy (‘05)
• John Hammond (‘85, ‘04)
• Gunter Hampel
• Lionel Hampton (‘90)
• Herbie Hancock (‘71, ‘75)
• Roy Haynes
• Joe Higgs
• Jonathan Hock ('06)

Jimmy Hoffa ('62)

• Abbie Hoffman
• Dave Holland (‘84)
• John Lee Hooker (‘83)
• Alan Hovhaness, (‘93)
• Zakir Hussein
• Waylon Jennings (‘94, ‘95)
• Booker T. Jones (‘92)
• Junior Kelly
• B.B. King (‘69, '05)

Martin Luther King, Jr. ('62)

• Jimmy Knepper (‘89)
• Stewart Lane
• Claude Lanzmann
• Ricardo Lemvo (‘05)
• Richard Linklater
• Craig Lucas
• Lawrence Lucie (’97, ’00, ’01, '04)
• Machito
• Taj Mahal (‘04)
• Branford Marsalis (‘82)
• Junior Marvin
• Michael Mann
• Jimmy Martin (‘90)
• Jay McShann (‘76)
• Sam Mendes
• Midori
• Charles Mingus (‘72)
• Ramesh Misra
• Butch Morris
• Kenny Neal (‘05)
• Willie Nelson (‘94, ‘95)
• Art Neville (‘84)
• David Oreck
• Buck Owens (‘88)
• Johnny Pacheco
• Maurizio Pollini
• Charlie Palmieri
• Eddie Palmieri (‘05)
• John Patitucci ('05)
• William 'Spaceman' Patterson
• Tito Puente
• Sun Ra ('77, '87, ‘89, ‘90)

Ayn Rand ('61-'62) Sam Rayburn ('61)

• Steve Reich (71,75,78,79,80)
• Junior Reid
• Vernon Reid
• Christina Ricci (‘97)
• Terry Riley
• Max Roach (‘85, ‘89, ‘93, ‘95)
• Peter Rowan
• Sonny Rollins (‘78, ‘88)
• Gyorgy Sandor
• Peter Schickele
• Sir Ridley Scott
• Ravi Shankar
• Artie Shaw (‘90)
• Wayne Shorter (‘75)
• Horace Silver (‘79)
• Leonard Slatkin
• David Stern (‘04)
• Hubert Sumlin (’84, ‘87, ‘05, '06)
• Judah Eskander Tafari
• Hank Thompson
• Jenny Thompson (‘05)
• Allen Toussaint ('06)
• June Tyson
• Stevie Ray Vaughan (‘84)
• Ray Vega
• Cedar Walton ('05)
• Earl Warren (‘87)
• Johnny Winter (‘86)
• Wilco (’95)
• LaMonte Young
• Franco Zeffirelli
• John Zorn (‘78)
• Abbey Lincoln ('84)
• Mary Lou Williams ('78)
• Joan Osbourne ('92)
• Anna Deavere Smith ('95)
• Deedee Bridgewater ('04)
• Marian McPartland ('94)
• Joan Tower
• Meredith Monk ('92)
• Pauline Oliveros ('92)
• Carla Bley ('83)
• Nehneh Cherry ('89)
• Parker Posey ('97)
• Katrin Cartlidge ('01)
• John Turturro ('07)

Alumni

• Charles Blass '87
• Laura Cantrell ‘89
• Gary Cohen ‘81
• Steve Hofstetter ‘02
• Soterios Johnson '90
• Leonard Koppett ‘44
• Mary McGuire ‘70
• Pete Nice ‘89
• Tim Page '79
• Ben Ratliff '90
• Phil Schaap ‘73
• Andy Setos '71
• Robert Siegel ‘68
• George Stephanopoulos ‘82
• Bernard Stollman
• Peter Wernick

Notable Listeners

• Woody Allen
• Bill Cosby
• Roy Haynes
• Peter Jennings
• Charles Mingus
• Max Roach
• Bruce Vilanch
• Cedar Walton
• David Fricke