We recently received a call from a listener who had trouble sleeping one night and caught “The Brazilian Hour” during the early morning hours of a Sunday. She really enjoyed the mix of traditional Brazilian and Brazilian-flavored jazz. She wondered if the show was repeated during the week. I told her that in addition to …
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Webcasting Update-Dennis
Well, we’re still webcasting today. Late Friday, we received word that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting(CPB), and National Public Radio (NPR) were still in negotiation with Sound Exchangeto settle the issue of royalty payments for webcasting of public radio music programming. While no agreement was reached on a substitute for the March 2nd decision of …
Great Fest! — Dennis
Hope you were at the Pentacrest at some point this weekend for the Iowa City Jazz Festival. The weather was perfect, and the music spectacular. Our 20-hour live broadcast of the Festival ended with a delightful set from the Ben Allison Quartet Sunday afternoon (Record company restrictions would not allow us to broadcast the Derek …
Brush with Greatness-Dennis
Do you remember the episode of “Happy Days” where rock star Flash Cadillac stays with the Cunninghams for a few days but Richie can’t tell any of his friends? We had a similar experience this week when a call came from an LA ad agency, asking if they could rent our production facilities for a …
Edgy Stuff II–Dennis
Thanks for the wide range of comments to the earlier post (if you haven’t read them all, just page down. All are excellent thoughts). The bottom line is that we consider the main thrust of our mission to find ways to make jazz accessible to a greater number of people, without pandering. In other words, …
Edgier Stuff? — Dennis
Here’s a comment from a recent posting I made, which I would like to use to start a new conversation: I would like to hear more CAM Jazz on the station, and ECM. I would like to have a formal mechanism for listeners to recommend discs that are not getting air time. Here’s my first …
Your Message Here-Dennis
Here’s a recent comment left for us (I’ll cut and paste so you don’t have to page down): KCCK, I’m curious if you want comments on this blog. It appears as though you just want it to be a billboard that you post messages to. Do you want interaction? Discussion about jazz? People to post …
Clean Up Your Act – George Dorman
Among the topics for Clean Up Your Act for the week of April 30 are “Crocs are removed from the endangered list” and “Simple ways to live green.” After three decades, the American crocodile is off the federal endangered species list. In 1975, the croc was close to extinction in the U.S., a victim of …