Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark: vocals by Jo Stafford, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Beverly Kenney, and Jacy Parker. Instrumentals by Lou Donaldson, Milt Jackson, the Gigi Gryce Quartet, Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges, McCoy Tyner, Howard Roberts, Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, and Joe Pass.
The San Francisco Press Club recently announced the winners of its 2021 Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, and KDRT’s Davisville placed second and third among small noncommercial radio/audio public-affairs programs!
The winning episodes were an interview with Winters’ Nora Cary, “The Palms, on indefinite hiatus, is ending its lease in Winters” (Aug. 17, 2020), and a discussion with Ryan Easterday, a U.S. Navy commander from Davis (Feb. 17, 2020).
The contest recognizes excellent work by journalists and other communicators in 12 counties ranging from Monterey and Marin to Yolo. Davisville has previously won six S.F. Press Club awards for shows created in 2019, 2018 and 2017. On the program, journalist Bill Buchanan interviews people about events, news, and stories involving Davis. He produces the show, and his brother Jim Buchanan is the sound engineer. Both Davis residents have been volunteer programmers at KDRT for more than a decade.
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and more! Bonus for reading Don's article about Common Landscape Errors
Album Of The Week uses a rotating cast of hosts to explore entire albums and bring a fantastically fun hour to the airwaves.
This week, our choice is the rock musical Hair.
Today's show starts with a set of songs inspired by 19th and 20th century Irish emigration. First off is Tim O'Brien's tune, "The Crossing," followed by another lament about leaving for Amerikay: Karine Polwart and Dave Milligans' new rendition of "Craigie Hill." Starting in the late 1800's, Irish laborers flooded the United Kingdom, as addressed by the next two songs: Josh O'Keefe's version of "McAlpine's Fusiliers," and Christy Moore's cover of Jimmy McCarthy's song "Missing You."
Also on today's show: new music from Martha Scanlan, Aoife O'Donovan, Dirk Powell, Tre Burt, Vincent Cross, and Frank Richard.
Tonight on Jazz After Dark: jazz from 1931 to 2000. Benny Goodman and the The Mills Brothers, Sammy Kaye, Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden, Charlie Byrd, Boots Randolph, Benny Carter, Joe Morello, Eddie Harris, The Taylor Eigsti Trio, Miles Davis, Shirley Horn, Frank Sinatra & Chrissie Hynde, and the Harold Mabern Trio.
My guest today is Seb Oñate, the editor of the Davis Enterprise. Our subjects include the appeal of hyper-local community journalism, a "rough couple of years," popular types of stories among Enterprise readers (crime and local government), nostalgia for newsprint as paid print circulation fades but online readership grows, engaging the town's college students, and working in “a town as engaged as Davis.”
If you have ever camped near the ocean while surrounded by tall redwood trees, then this is an hour of music you can relate to. My cabin camping experience near Manchester Beach in northern California inspired today's (Oct. 1) Listening Lyrics.
Things to plant in October, November ...
Tonight on Jazz After Dark: swing, bossa nova, soul jazz, West Coast cool, and more. Ronnell Bright Trio, Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, Phineas Newborn Jr., Cannonball Adderley with Ray Brown and Wes Montgomery, Duke Ellington, Baby Face Willette, Roland Kirk, Art Pepper, and the Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz.
