Jazz musicians RED RODNEY and SONNY SHARROCK. They're both important jazz figures who recently died. We will rebroadcast previous interviewsO RODNEY was a trumpeter and band leader. He rose through the big band ranks and played in Charlie Parker's quintet. He was known as one of jazz's best improvisers. And he was known for regaling journalists with his stories-- often of dubious veracity. (The interview with SHARROCK will replace the arts review.)REV.:SONNY SHARROCK was a guitarist. His genre was the free-jazz movement of the late 1960's Jon Pareles said in the New York Times that SHARROCK'S "guitar solos streaked and clanged, using blistering speed and raw noise to create music that had both the openness of jazz and power of rock."
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