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WUCF 89.9 Jazz & More
Newsletter December 2009
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The middle of December already?!? Wow, time flies
when you're listening to great jazz!
Since our 21st century days are fast anyway
- with our high-tech lives, and our never-ending
to-do lists - it's great to have public radio there for you --
to bring you news, great music, and community connections.
WUCF's mission is to keep your days entertaining
and informative.
This is the
first Jazzsational
newsletter in online format! We're focused on savings at
89.9 Jazz & More - and by going to an electronic
newsletter, we save paper, postage, and printing costs!
We hope our online format is a positive
change for you! You can look forward to getting
the same information our print publication featured, new
features, and delivery in a more timely and comprehensive
fashion. Online, we can link you to
a world of information - and give you more
of what the world of music and news
makers.
Your input is what makes JAZZ & MORE 89.9 great! So
take advantage of our instant feedback links within our
Jazzsational - to give us your comments and suggestions.
We're your public radio - so let us know how we can best serve
you!
As always, thanks for listening to WUCF - you're the
reason we're here with Jazz, and
more. | |
| The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Radio
Broadcasts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  WUCF is proud to
offer the Metropolitan Opera's live Saturday matinee
broadcasts - the longest-running continuous classical music
program in radio history.
The 79th
season of radio broadcasts kicks off on
Saturday, December 12 at 12:30 pm with
Puccini's Il
Trittico, starring Patricia Racette and Stephanie Blythe
and conducted by Stefano Ranzani.
Twenty-two Saturday afternoon broadcasts will
be presented on WUCF through May 8. Margaret Juntwait
returns as the series's host for her sixth season, joined by
commentator Ira Siff.
The Metropolitan Opera's website
hosts synopses, artist biographies, production photos,
sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides
for every
opera in the broadcast season.
The 2009-10 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast
Season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home
builderŪ, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg
Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast
Media, and through contributions from listeners
worldwide. |
| Riverwalk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Jim Cullum and his
band have been celebrating classic jazz musicians and tunes
on "Riverwalk" - a weekly public radio
program made on the San Antonio riverbank - for
over 20 years!
WUCF airs "Riverwalk" every Sunday at 6
p.m. Here's a complete list of the scheduled
programs.
You can find details
for each weekly program in the Jazz Notes
section of the Riverwalk website. There are also links for
more information on the featured artist - with
photo, book, and cd resources already highlighted for you on
the page.
Besides producing 52 new weekly programs every year, Jim
Cullum and his team of Riverwalk archivers offer additional
online listening - with their bonus
radio broadcasts that feature more great classic
jazz. |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to
inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the
world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a
comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at
Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued
development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round
schedule of performance, education and broadcast events for
audiences of all ages.
Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton
Marsalis, Chairman Lisa Schiff and Executive Director
Adrian Ellis, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce thousands of
events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P.
Rose Hall, and around the world.
Coming up in December on JALC - a "Soul Jazz
Summit" - featuring Lou Donaldson, George Coleman, Dr. Lonnie
Smith and the late David 'Fathead' Newman, and a celebration
of the 100th birthday of Benny Goodman! Here
are the complete
program listings.
WUCF airs Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sundays
7 pm, and an encore presentation on
Mondays at 7 pm. Miss the program?
Listen online to an archived
copy. |
| Jazz Profiles
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Singer Nancy
Wilson presents an in-depth look at the greatest
performers who have influenced the history of jazz - each week
on National Public Radio's "Jazz Profiles."
Jazz Profiles is currently not producing new
programs, however the archived body of
recordings are re-broadcast each week on
WUCF-FM.
Upcoming December programs feature: Count Basie, Gil
Evans, and Willie (the Lion) Smith.
Jazz Profiles airs Sundays at 10 am and Tuesdays at
7 pm. |
| Jazzset
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JazzSet delivers rhythm... melody... harmony... improv...
every week since 1992. Host Dee Dee
Bridgewater brings you music in performance, sweet and
hot. With her fine, friendly voice, the 2008 Grammy nominee
introduces sets from coast to coast and beyond.
JazzSet's quality recordings capture the legends,
today's top bands, and promising new talent. Occasionally, the
program dips into its archives and Dee Dee shares a moment
that's too good not to share.
Jazzset airs on WUCF on Sundays at 8 pm,
and an encore presentation on Wednesdays at 7
pm. Coming up in December: The Dave Brubeck Quartet,
Pink Martini, Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells, and the New
York Voices with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Orchestra!
Here's this week's presentation. |
| Jazz Inspired
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  What inspires the people who
inspire you? How do creative people create? World-renowned
jazz pianist Judy
Carmichael explores these questions with her guests every
week on her public radio show "Jazz Inspired." Celebrated
artists discuss their creative process and how their passion
for jazz has inspired their work. They share their favorite
recordings as well as insight into their lives and art.
WUCF airs "Jazz Inspired" Sundays at 5
pm. An encore presentation of the
program airs Thursdays at 7 pm.
Coming up on "Jazz Inspired" in December and January are
Stacey Kent, Wayne Bergeron, and Jacqui Dankworth. Here's the
complete list of scheduled
programs. |
| Marion McPartland's Piano
Jazz
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30 years, legendary pianist Marian
McPartland has welcomed a stellar line-up of jazz artists
for conversation and improvisation on her Peabody
Award-winning program. "Piano Jazz" fans say the show's
intimate style is "like listening in on a conversation in
someone's living room." And no one but McPartland, with her
engaging personality and improvisational savvy, could host
such a variety of performers in her radio "living room."
"Piano Jazz" is a forum for jazz legends and
influential performers as well as up-and-coming talents. Oscar
Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, Diana Krall, Max
Roach, Cassandra Wilson and Tony Bennett are among more
than 400 guests who have joined McPartland to create
dynamic duets and discuss their lives and music.
December brings jazz artists Beegie Adair, John
Lewis, Marian Petrescu and Renee Rosnes as featured
artists, and the Jazz Piano Christmas special. McPartland's
"Piano Jazz" airs on WUCF 89.9 Fridays at 7
pm, and in an encore presentation Sundays at
11 am. Here's this
week's featured program and previous
episodes. |
| Toast of the Nation New Year's
Eve!
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 Toast
of the Nation features live music all night on New Year's
Eve -- a holiday special for your party. Raise a glass
with listeners coast to coast and revelers at five live-jazz
locations across the continent. After midnights in New York
and the Twin Cities, our West Coast artists give a Happy New
Year shout-out to Mountain Timers. Then an hour later it's
"Auld Lang Syne" (or something hipper) in Pacific Time, with a
"here's to Alaska and Hawaii" in advance of their midnight
hours.
Program airs live from
8 pm ET on New Years Eve, Thursday, December 31
through 5 am ET on January 1st.
8 pm - LIVE -
Multi-instrumentalist Anat Cohen at Berklee
Performance Center in Boston.
In 2009, ASCAP named Anat
to the Jazz Wall of Fame, and the Jazz Journalists Association
cited her as Clarinetist of the Year. Anat follows her muse
from "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and "Jitterbug Waltz" to
Cuba, Argentina and Brazil. She's been on NPR's JazzSet with
her Anzic Orchestra, on Live at the Village Vanguard with her
quartet, and on Piano Jazz in a duo with Marian
McPartland.
9:30 pm - LIVE -
John Pizzarelli's "Dear Mr. Sinatra" at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
Guitarist, singer and
radio host Pizzarelli used to open for Frank and remembers
that he "would appear in the wings during our final number,
swinging and clapping and smiling. He would come onstage and
cheer for us." We'll cheer John and his eight-piece band
playing songs that were written for Sinatra and more.
11:00 pm - LIVE with EST
midnight - The Bad Plus at the Village
Vanguard in New York
Power jazz with
tremendous chops meets indie rock in the acoustic trio of Reid
Anderson, Ethan Iverson and David King. The outcome can be
very beautiful, also very funny. This is The Bad Plus's second
New Year's Eve at the legendary club. WBGO's Josh Jackson
hosts.
12:15 am - LIVE with CST
midnight - Irvin Mayfield Quintet at the
Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant in Minneapolis
The young trumpet star
and cofounder of Los Hombres Calientes and the New Orleans
Jazz Orchestra is also the Minnesota Orchestra's first
Artistic Director of Jazz. Produced with technical support
from American Public Media.
1:30 am - LIVE
with MST and PST midnights - Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy from L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall
Dance to songs from
BBVD's How Big Can You Get? A Tribute to Cab Calloway, a
high-voltage jolt of feel-good energy for a country slogging
through tough times. "This is the best and most ferocious
we've ever sounded," says the band. Also, a selection or two
from the BBVD Christmas record, and all the favorites.
03:30 am - Special
music, TBA
4:00 am - Repeat of
Anat Cohen performance at Berklee Performance
Center in
Boston. | |
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