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This week on Jazz Spectrum – April 26-28
Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly,
e.e. cummings was right to say that
“Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging Read More
This week on Jazz Spectrum – April 19-21, 2024
By Fritz ByersThe tenor saxophonist Lester Young is widely – and I think plausibly – credited with inventing the use of the word “cool” to describe something hip or fashionable or, well, you know. That alone should land him in one or more Halls of Fame – who in American history has more enduringly shaped the national vocabulary with a single word? This cracks me up: the original OED isn’t having any of this use of cool. BUT, in a supplement, the editors added several usages. Read More
FM 91 Programing Changes
Mondays - Radio Alchemy from 12 a.m. - 1 a.m. Mondays - Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour from 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Tuesdays - Early Music Now from 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. Fridays - Jazz Spectrum Fridays from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Saturdays - Saturday Afternoon at the Opera from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Sundays - Electronic Currents from 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. For a full schedule visit wgte.org/schedules Read More
This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 4/12
By Fritz ByersThis Friday’s 10pm hour presents in its entirety the pianist Andrew Hill’s 1964 triumph, Point of Departure. Twined with the five tracks from that album are two cuts from the guitarist Nels Cline’s 2006 date, New Monastery: A View into the Music of Andrew Hill. Each of the Cline excursions is tied to Point of Departure. Read More
‘Finding Festivals’ Accepted by The National Educational Telecommunications Association for National Distribution
Local producer and show host Haylie Robinson’s Finding Festivals airing again on WGTE Public MediaWGTE Public Media is proud to re-air the full 13-episode season of Finding Festivals, created by local producer and show host Haylie Robinson. The program is now available through The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), a nationwide program distribution service to members, public television stations and independent producers. Read More
This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 4/5
By Fritz Byers In 1930, Babe Ruth signed a contract with the Yankees under which he was paid $80,000 a year to play baseball. At the time, Herbert Hoover occupied the position of President of the United States. It is a measure of the quaintness of those days, and of the near-century of ensuing dislocations, that a journalist thought it apropos to ask Babe if he deserved to make more money than the President. Read More
This week on Jazz Spectrum – March 30, 2024
By Fritz ByersThere’s nothing like teaching a class to help you learn. A blog post or two ago I mentioned I’m teaching a jazz-history class. Here’s a thanks to Lourdes for letting me do it and to the students for being so thoughtful and giving me so much to think about. Since Tuesday’s class I’ve been thinking about hard bop – you know, the style that emerged as a reaction to cool jazz, which was a reaction to bop, which was a reaction to swing, which . . .. Read More
The Love of Electronic Dance Music
By Richard PatonEvery fall, millions of Americans listen to Electronic Dance Music.
They may not label it as such. Some, when asked, might well say they don’t really like that kind of music.
But listen, they do, as “Sandstorm” by Darude blasts through the PA systems at NFL and college football stadiums around the country. Read More