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. …
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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 …
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 …