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This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 6/21-6/23

Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.Dear Aly,
 
As we age, and our gears begin slightly to slip, it can lead to some wonderful suspended-in-mid-air exchanges.  I was recently on the periphery of one.
 
          We were showing off the downtown riverfront park development.  Admittedly, it IS disorienting.  But:
 
          “You pretty much cover the waterfront.”
 
          “I love that movie.”
 
          “Which movie” Read More

New Documentary "Sister Eileen and Her Boyz"

This documentary is directed and produced by Holly Hey and chronicles the grassroots efforts to support Toledoans with HIV/AIDS during the AIDS epidemic TOLEDO, OHIO – June 14, 2024 – Join WGTE Public Media as it presents “Sister Eileen and Her Boyz,” a 30-minute documentary about the grassroots efforts to support Toledoans during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This documentary is produced and directed by independent producer Holly Hey and will premiere on WGTE HD at 3 p.m. Read More

This Week on Jazz Spectrum 6/14-6/16

Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersDear Aly,
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This week on Jazz Spectrum – 6/7-6/9

Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersDear Aly, Anyone who’s been through law school, or at least the caricature of law school that fetishizes the Socratic method, knows that enormous power derives from being the person who asks the questions. Ms. Read More

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This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 5/17-5/19

Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly, I didn’t mention to you when we were talking last night that any impairment you detected in my capacity for linear thought was likely due to my having spent excessive time recently with the movies of the French New Wave. I think mostly the movies go way over my head, but I find them funny; often, I think, unintentionally so. Read More

NPR named a new Tiny Desk Contest winner. Here are our local favorite submissions!

Congratulations to The Philharmonik for winning NPR's 2024 Tiny Desk Contest! Hailing from Sacramento, California, The Philharmonik is a producer, singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist whose entry video, "What's It All Mean," floored this year's panel of judges.NPR Tiny Desk Contest WebsiteDid you know there were nearly 7,000 entries this year? Check out a few of our favorite local submissions below! Read More

This week on Jazz Spectrum – 5/10-5/12

Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly, Yesterday the sky’s vast cloudless expanse was so striking that it set me to wondering what it was reminding me of. Do you remember the Peanuts strip when Linus asks Lucy, “Why is the sky blue?” And she answers, “Because it isn’t green.”  Yesterday, it was a blue on blue, like an English weave It was very nearly one of those impossible Renoir blues we talked about a couple of weeks ago.  It was a sweeping heartache blu Read More