Derrick Gee's Radio Hour

Derrick Gee’s Radio Hour arrives at Gramercy Theatre as a live jazz program shaped like a broadcast, with Derrick Gee at the center. The format borrows the discipline of radio—tight cues, spoken transitions, and music that has to land in real time—while letting the room’s acoustics and audience response become part of the piece. No specific NYC premiere history is widely documented, but the show sits squarely in New York’s long tradition of stage-and-airwave crossovers. Its most telling quality is how it treats “radio” less as nostalgia than as an organizing principle for listening.