I’m really happy that Barbara Golden and I could collaborate on this show, and re-publish her fascinating interview with Roscoe Mitchell, the saxophonist, composer, and leading light of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Barbara interviewed Roscoe, who teaches now at Mills College in Oakland, for her once-a-month 3-hour radio show on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, “Crack O’Dawn” . The full show, originally broadcast on April 3, 2015, includes a slightly longer cut of the interview, as well as two and a half hours of Roscoe’s music. It has unfortunately disappeared from the KPFA Archives –they purge them every month or so – but has been salvaged, thanks to Barb’s friend Perrin Meyer, and we thank him for making it available in full on his website at this link:
lizardinthesun.com/music/crack_o_dawn_3_april_2015.mp3
I also want to thank Wendy Nelson for recording the original interview at Mills College.