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, host Mike Johnston features the work of pianist Stan Tracey, from Under Milk Wood. This legendary British quartet album from 1965 is often described as the U.K.'s version of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of many jazz artists, including Elmo Hope, Max Roach, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, and more. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of Archie Shepp, highlighting the album Derailleur, previously unreleased from 1964 and featuring Steve Lacy on soprano sax and Roswell Rudd on trombone alongside Shepp. Mike also spins other tracks by Shepp from the early 1960s with Cecil Taylor on piano, and Bill Dixon and Don Cherry on trumpets. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of trumpeter Charles Sullivan, highlighting recordings under his own name from the 1970s-1990s, as well as recordings with Sonny Fortune on sax, Yusef Lateef on sax and flute, and McCoy Tyner on piano. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of the Sun Ra Arkestra recorded at the Willisau festival in 1984 -- a never-before-released concert on a double LP. This release is launching a new record label, De Occulta Records, which is planning on releasing different Willisau festival performances through the years. Mike also features interviews with the label's owner. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of Roswell Rudd on the trombone, highlighting recordings from throughout his career (including his work with the New York Art Quartet). -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of Sun Ra. This edition of the program highlights his reissued album Jazz In Silhouette, a remastered and reissued version of the 1959 classic with bonus tracks and a few newly-found original stereo mixes of songs. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of Horace Tapscott and the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, highlighting two previously unreleased live performances from 1979. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, including the Milwaukee Tapes Volume 2 -- previously unreleased recordings from a 1980 live gig. -
This week on Destination Out, host Mike Johnston features the work of tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, highlighting a reissue of his 1970s album Harvest Time along with bonus tracks and live material. Also on the show, a celebration of the late great John Coltrane's birthday.
