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Jazz After Dark, May 28, 2024

On tonight’s show:

  • Benny Carter, Beale Street Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Special Delivery Stomp
  • Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Blues In the Night
  • Lester Young, I Got Rhythm
  • Ray Anthony, The Man With A Horn
  • Art Pepper, Patricia
  • Johnny Hodges, Take the "A" Train
  • Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Polka Dots and Moonbeams
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun
  • Ernie Wilkins And His Orchestra, All Of You
  • Benny Goodman & Quartet, I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
  • João Gilberto & Stan Getz, Corcovado
  • Ramsey Lewis, Come Sunday
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Ella Fitzgerald, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Live At Cote D'Azur, France, 1966

Davisville, May 27, 2024: She writes opinions for students at UC Davis

These days, you can get all the quick takes and snap judgments you want. They seem easier to find than facts, partly because they're catnip to the algorithms and impulses that drive social media. Today’s guest is doing something different with opinions — something more difficult, in my book, and more useful, especially in the long run. Since fall 2022, Claire Schad has been writing opinion columns for the California Aggie, the student newspaper and news organization at the University of California, Davis.

Writing opinion columns will seem like an outdated, narrow pursuit — newspapers in any format have much less influence than they did — but a good column that hits its mark generates ideas, not just reactions. It can create room for nuance, for admitting and engaging different points of view. Writers learn about people and ideas, and how to make ideas useful. How to move them forward.

Claire is graduating in June, and we talk about her experiences today on Davisville.

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