'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' Brandee Younger Previews Jazzfest, 'Between Riverside and Crazy', Kwame Brathwaite
The latest installment of the "Knives Out" series follows a suspicious group of celebrities and thinkers accused of a murder as they gather at the house of tech giant Miles Bron. Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) arrives on the scene to investigate. Writer and director Rian Johnson joins us to discuss, "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," and whether or not Muppets will be in the next film.
Harpist Brandee Younger was named a Rising Star in DownBeat's 2020 critics poll, and she's played on albums from Makaya McCraven, Terri Lyne Carrington, Alessia Cara, and John Legend. She's part of this year's NYC Winter Jazzfest line-up with performances at The Opera House on Saturday 1/14 and (le) Poisson Rouge on Monday 1/16. She joins us to preview the shows and discuss her career, and shares a special performance.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Between Riverside and Crazy," is now on Broadway, starring Stephen McKinley Henderson as ex-cop Walter "Pops" Washington, and Common as his son Junior, who is recently on parole from prison. The play follows the father and son as they attempt to hold on to their rent stabilized apartment on Riverside Drive. Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Henderson, and Common join us to discuss the show, which plays at Hayes Theater through February 12.
[REBROADCAST FROM September 9, 2022] In the late 1950s and 1960s, the photographer Kwame Brathwaite, born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family, used his work to push for social change. Along with his brother, he founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios, an artist collective in Harlem and the Bronx, and also is thought of one of the creators of the phrase, “Black Is Beautiful.” A new exhibition at the New York Historical Society, called, Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite, originally organized by Aperture, displays his photography and behind the scenes images of his involvement in the artistic communities around Harlem. Kwame S. Brathwaite, the artist's son and archive director of The Kwame Brathwaite Archive, and Marilyn Kushner, curator and head of the Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections at the New-York Historical Society, join us to discuss the show, which is on display until January 15.
