New York State original and Cornell University graduate Rick Petrie has hosted adventurous radio programs in Rochester since 1988, including “Nothing Is” and “Live China” on WITR, and “In All Languages” on WRUR. He currently hosts “North Star Sounds” on Jazz90.1 featuring the musicians and composers that are directly inspired by the jazz avant garde of the 1960s, especially John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and Charles Mingus. All the artists featured on North Star Sounds have made significant commitments and sacrifices in their lives in order to create music that explores the outer limits of tonality, and that also risks disturbing their audience by telling them the secrets of their own hearts (Old Hungarian Proverb: “Tell the truth…and run!”).
Rick’s first book of poetry, Before Jazz, was published by Clevis Hook in 2012. Rick and Jon bring North Star Sounds to One Jazz as part of our global conversation.