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Hosted by Lawrence Peryer · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 321 episodes
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The Tonearm connects you with the people and ideas moving culture forward. Every episode is one conversation, free of format, going where it needs to go. Hosted by long-time music business executive, journalist and fan, Lawrence Peryer . The Tonearm is for the listener who wants the work explained by the person who made it, not by someone interpreting it from the outside. If you're interested in inspiration, technique, process, and emotion, The Tonearm's for you. Over hundreds of episodes since February 2020, the thing we do that's different is clear: We're a team of music listeners, readers, moviegoers, museum visitors, and cultural omnivores who understand art and artists and know what questions lead to meaningful conversations. New episodes every week. Thanks for listening. <h
Lawrence Peryer hosts The Tonearm, a arts show with 321 episodes published.
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on drummer, composer, and educator Terri Lyne Carrington . Carrington has just released Trip the Night Fantastic , the second album from her group, Social Science. It’s built
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on pop-chart analyst Chris Molanphy . For almost a decade, Chris has hosted Hit Parade , Slate 's monthly show on the history behind the Billboard charts. He also writes Slat
This week, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on five-time Grammy-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani . Suzanne has spent decades innovating electronic music on the Buchla synthesizer, an instrument as intimate to her as a
This week, we’re putting The Tonearm 's needle on saxophonist and composer Alden Hellmuth . Alden grew up in Hartford, studying in the Jackie McLean tradition, and now works out of New York City. Her new album is called
This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas . Douglas’s latest album, Transcend, came out in April. It's the second record from GIFTS, his band with Rafiq Bhatia, James Brandon Le
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm ’s needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan . Ora Cogan’s music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and gothic rock. She holds all of it without flinching, as heard on the fantastic a
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Stephen Emmer, a Dutch composer and musician based in Amsterdam. Stephen came up in the late 70s post-punk underground, and his band Minny Pops was the first international act
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on George Grella, one of the sharpest music critics working today. George is the music editor of The Brooklyn Rail and has written for The Wire, the New York Times, and, luckily
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Meredith Bates, a JUNO Award-winning violinist and composer based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Meredith’s recent double album, The Observer Effect, spans roughly 14
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Toronto drummer and composer Nick Fraser. Nick Fraser is one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian improvised music. He has played with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell,
Today, The Tonearm’s needle lands on composer and avid birdwatcher Maria Schneider. Few composers working today have Maria Schneider's range. She holds seven Grammy Awards, was named an NEA Jazz Master, and this year too
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Caroline Davis, a saxophonist and composer based in New York. Her new album, Fallows, just came out on Ropeadope Records. Caroline made it alone during a residency in Ucross,
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm's needle on composer and chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, Miho Hazama. Miho grew up inside the Yamaha music education system in her native Japan. She moved to New York to stu
Today, The Tonearm’s needle drops on cellist and composer Tomeka Reid. Tomeka Reid has spent the last decade building one of the most distinctive voices in creative music. The New York Times called her a "New Jazz Power
Today we put The Tonearm's needle on Ben Wendel. Ben is a Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and co-founder of Kneebody, with a discography that covers post-bop, chamber jazz, and electronic music. He's worked with
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm's needle on Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore. Julianna is a composer, vocalist, and producer whose music is built almost entirely from layered, looped human voices. Mary is a harpist w
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on the Montreal jazz collective Bellbird. Bellbird formed during pandemic park jams and has since become one of the more compelling voices in Canada's avant-garde jazz scene. The
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on guitarist and composer Sam Wenc. Wenc is a Philadelphia-based artist who has spent nearly a decade building one of the more distinctive bodies of work in American experimental
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Zeena Parkins, composer, improviser, and one of the most singular forces in experimental music. Zeena has spent four decades dismantling what the harp can do: through electroni
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Michael Graves, a five-time Grammy-winning mastering engineer and the founder of Osiris Studio in Los Angeles. Michael's work is restoration as archaeology—pulling performance
Stephen Emmer
1 appearance on this show
Julianna Barwick
composer, vocalist, producer
1 appearance on this show
Mary Lattimore
harpist
1 appearance on this show
Patrick Smith
Performance and Wellbeing Coach · Harcourts Grenadier Halswell
1 appearance on this show
Brendan Canty
2 appearances on this show
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1 appearance on this show
June Jordan
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1 appearance on this show
Miho Hazama
Danish Radio Big Band
1 appearance on this show
Ben Wendel
Kneebody
1 appearance on this show
Michael Hallsworth
Behavioral Insights Team
1 appearance on this show
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