This week: Christian McBride stops by ahead of the Montclair Jazz Festival, Madonna's new single traces back to a Montclair DJ, and we get real about how (and when) we use AI on this show.
Christian McBride & the Montclair Jazz Festival Eleven-time Grammy winner and Montclair Jazz Festival artistic director Christian McBride joins us to talk about how he and his wife, Jazz House Kids founder Melissa Walker, put down roots in Montclair back in 2005. We get into the 17th annual festival, happening Saturday, August 15th at Lackawanna Plaza, this year's collaboration with the Smithsonian's \"Of the People\" celebration, the Miles Davis and Coltrane centennial tribute, and the full lineup.
How We Use AI on This Show Our World Cup reflection reel sparked some questions from listeners, so we're pulling back the curtain on how we use AI to produce the show and run our newsroom.
Madonna, Danceteria, and a Montclair Connection Madonna's new song \"Danceteria\" pays tribute to the legendary early-'80s Manhattan nightclub, and it turns out there's a direct line back to Montclair. We talk to longtime resident Rafe Gomez, who snuck into the real Danceteria as a teenager and now recreates its sound weekly on Twitch as \"Danceteria Rewind,\" reaching an audience of 60,000 around the world. He also tells us the story of the night he bought a young Madonna a drink, back when she was working coat check and the elevator. Catch Danceteria Rewind live on Twitch every Thursday night.