Monthly Archives: September 2009

Ancient Future – the radio program 9/17/09

Ancient Future is produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins for WPFW 89.3 FM, 50,000 watt Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC.   ARTIST            TUNE                ALBUM TITLE            LABEL   3RD Thursday special: Jazz in South Africa Nancy Jacbs & Her Sisters    Meadowlands    … Continue reading

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Is your artist website truly useful, or a waste of space?

My good friend and colleague Sara Donnelly (who many in the jazz community may remember as the former Sara Warner), has matriculated through the National Endowment for the Arts, worked at the late National Jazz Service Organization,  and later the Association of Performing … Continue reading

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It’s Coming: the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival

  For 15 years, up until her passing on to ancestry, DC area based vocalist and vocal educator RONNIE WELLS tirelessly produced the successful mid-winter East Coast Jazz Festival at the Doubletree Hotel in Rockville, MD (suburban Washington, DC).  During … Continue reading

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Ancient Future – the radio program 9/10/09

Ancient Future is produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins for WPFW 89.3 FM, Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC.   ARTIST    TUNE    ALBUM TITLE    LABEL   Roy Haynes   Remember   Fountain of Youth   Dreyfus Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers    A Night … Continue reading

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Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black jazz writers tell their story #8

Our correspondent for this edition of the series Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black jazz writers tell their story is Bridget Arnwine.  I first encountered Bridget in 2005 when the Jazz Journalists Association sponsored a one-time fellowship award in … Continue reading

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