I’ll be attending the first few days of the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in Midtown Manhattan this week. Tough duty, eh? This is a huge and very exciting gathering of musicians, educators, recording people, vendors… anyone associated with jazz. We’ve been asked to participate in a panel called “Jazz Radio in the Community-How …
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Nightbreeze 2007 checking in-Markj
Happy New Year everyone! I will be back on the air “live” on Sunday night, January 7, 2007.Seems like it was yesterday we were bringing in 2006. With the Winter season upon us(even though it feels like Spring) the music on Nightbreeze seeems more solemn and reflective. Nightbreeze tends to be seasonal. The longer nights …
More Year End Stuff-Bob
Today I’ll be presenting selections from my Top Ten CDs of 2006 in the 11:00am hour. Then on Jazz Masters today at noon, I’ll look back at some of the legends who passed away in 2006. That’ll be followed by our final thirty entries in our Top 88 Countdown for 2006. We’ve been giving you …
Top Picks for 2006-Bob
As 2006 winds down, KCCK will be doing something just a bit different for our end-of-the-year countdown. As usual, we’ll run the full Top 88 Countdown of the top jazz discs of the year on New Year’s Day starting at 10am. In addition, the week leading up to that, Tuesday through Thursday, we’ll have a …
Holidays Heat Up-Bob
With Christmas closing in fast, Jazz 88.3 is ramping up our holiday music accordingly. In the days leading up to Sunday and Monday, we’re increasing the number of holiday tunes you hear during the programming day. Plus, this week our Midnight CDs are the newest addtions to our holiday jazz library. The pickings have been …
Sounds of the (endless) Season-Dennis
The following is an edited version of an article that originally appeared in the program for the Dianne Reeves Christmas concert at Hancher. Thanks to Rob Cline for allowing me to reprint it here! There are two groups of people who are already tired of Christmas music before most of us have even started our …
Big Band Memories-Martha Tilton tribute-Murray
Remembering Martha Tilton is the theme of this Sunday’s Big Band Memories between 3 and 5pm. I’ll feature many of her great sides with Benny Goodman in the 1930s, and on the Capitol label and elsewhere in the 40s and 50s. One of my favorite Martha Tilton records is a V-Disc recorded especially for servicemen, …
HD Radio Reviews-Dennis
We’ve been broadcasting in digital HD Radio for over a year now, but receivers capable of picking up the high-quality sound are just now starting to trickle into our area. At Jazz 88.3, we have the Boston Acoustics Receptor, the Sangean HDR-1 and HDT-1 and the Radio Shack Accurian, which is on sale right now …