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Richard Baratta's 'Looking Back' featured on WBGO's New Day New Play April 14-18

"Looking Back" by Richard Baratta
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"Looking Back" by Richard Baratta

Richard Baratta's creativity has delighted our eyes for many years with his work in film (Desparately Seeking Susan, Wolf of Wall Street, Joker, The Irishman, 5 Spider-Man movies and many others.)

His creativity as a drummer/composer has delighted our ears, with his imaginative recreations of music in film, and his new release, "Looking Back", which reinvents some of our favorite rock and soul tunes of the 60's. With pianist Bill O'Connell's playing and arranging, saxophonist/flutist Vincent Herring, guitarist Paul Bollenback, bassist Michael Goetz and percussionist Paul Rossman, tunes you thought you knew from James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Lennon/McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Otis Redding and more, come with a new, soulful, Latin-tinged feel, showing this collective's way of taking the familiar and turning it inside/out and upside/down, arriving at a brand new day, confidently expressing the timeless appeal of our music.

Tune in each weekday morning at 8:20am for a track from this new release!

In jazz radio, great announcers are distinguished by their ability to convey the spontaneity and passion of the music. Gary Walker is such an announcer, and his enthusiasm for this music greets WBGO listeners every morning on Daybreak. He's the winner of the 1996 Gavin Magazine Jazz Radio Personality of the Year Award and the recipient of the 2021 Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Achievement in Broadcasting from the Jazz Journalists Association. Gary hosts the morning show each weekday from 8am til noon. And, by his own admission, he's truly having a great time.