Monday, January 2211:00 am We start out the week with a lineup shift. I will be in for Gordon Paulsen this afternoon. It will certainly be a radio adventure as we’ll learn whether I still know how to fly the control board. I’ll feature JJ Johnson, Teddy Smith and Lizz Wright on their birthday, and …
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Busy Weekend for Jazz Fans-Bob
There’s lots of live jazz to take in this weekend in the area. In addition to Eddie Piccard’s regular gigs at the Fireside Grill in Kalona tonight, Konstantino’s in Cedar Rapids tomorrow night, and the Top of the Five Seasons Hotel in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, plus the Dick Watson Trio at the Lighthouse Friday …
Notes From New York (Thursday)-Dennis
Another day of seminars and great music. There is a jazz radio track at the IAJE, and we spent a great deal of time today in various meetings talking about what is wrong with, andright with, jazz radio. The good news: Jazz radio’s audience is not decreasing as fast as the overall radio listening audience. …
Notes from the IAJE-Dennis
Greetings from The International Association of Jazz Educators conference in Manhattan! In between plenary sessions (I have no idea what that means, I just like to say the word “plenary”) and concerts, I hope to sneak away to give you a little flavor ot the King of All Jazz Meetings here in the Jazz Capital. …
Jazz in the New Year-Bob
Well, here we are a week into the new year. Historically, this is a slow time for new jazz releases. The record labels stop releasing new discs from about the end of November through mid-January, so things should start picking up again very soon. What we feature in the interim are things we haven’t had …
Live From New York, it’s ME! –Dennis
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 …
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 …