Destination Out
Sundays 11pm-2am
Every week, 'Destination Out' features creative improvised music, traditional world music, and jazz. Host Mike Johnston also presents a feature each week, focusing on a particular artist, or a unique style of music.
Audio for each episode of Destination Out is available for two weeks online after the episode airs. To listen, scroll below the playlists on this page and click on the photo or title of the episode you are interested in. You will then see three audio players, one for each hour of the program. This audio is automatically removed two weeks after an episode's original airdate.
Destination Out Episodes
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This week on Destination Out Mike plays tracks from, Charles Mingus, Dannie Richmond, and Clifford Thorton, among others. -
This week on Destination Out Mike features American Jazz Saxophonist Pharoah Saunders. -
This week on Destination Out, Mike features the great American Saxophonist Archie Shepp. He also plays works from Sun Ra, Sunny Rollins, and Clifford Brown. -
This week on Destination Out, Mike plays selections honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Artists include John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Nathan Davis, among others. -
This week on Destination Out, Mike plays selections from Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, and Wayne Shorter, among others. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features his annual rock n' roll show, spinning music by Traffic, Hot Tuna, Blind Faith, Bob Dylan, Santana, and many more! Mike also notes the passing of Robbie Robertson. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features solo piano for the holidays, including Abdullah Ibrahim and Chris McGregor! Other featured artists include McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, and Alice Coltrane. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features record producer Matt Davidson, who passed away in early December; he helmed the Emanem record label. Mike will be spinning artists who recorded on the label through the years, including Bobby Bradford on trumpet, Trevor Watts on saxophone, Kent Carter on bass, Derek Bailey on guitar, and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of bassist David Izenzon. Mike will spin Izenzon's recordings with different artists in the 1960s and 70s, including saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp, drummer Paul Motian, and pianist Jackie Byard. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of the New York Loft jazz scene in the mid-1970s, featuring recordings from the Loft Sessions and others from the same timeframe, including Randy Weston on piano, Sam Rivers on sax and flute, David Murray on sax, Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, and Roscoe Mitchell on sax.
