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A FEW WORDS ABOUT THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL SHOW (5.30.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocalists #requestradio

27 May

You know how I struggle every week to come up with an interesting theme and then painstakingly pick perfect songs to fit that theme? Stop laughing! It could happen – but not this week. This week I’m opening up the phone lines and taking requests live on the air. Got a song or a performer you want to hear? Call me Saturday night and if I can find it and if I have time, I’ll play it right then and there. Or email your requests and dedications to me at turntable@wmnr.org I hope you’ll be listening Saturday night – because why should the NSA be the only ones listening to me?

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

I’ve got a request for you: listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.  Click the link below:

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.23.15) #jazz #jazzvocals #jazzradio #prx

20 May

HINT:

During past seasons I’ve presented musical tributes to the Prepositional Phrase, the Conditional Tense, and the Subordinate Clause, all in my effort to leave no audience behind. You might ask, Did these programs raise the literacy bar or did they just send more people to The Literacy Bar, which is probably a bar somewhere in San Diego? You might also ask, Isn’t it, in fact, impossible to have a “race to the top” when you’re trying to “level the playing field?” (B.T.W., if you’re so full of questions and queries, maybe you should think about getting your own blog and stop interrupting mine.) Am I ready to give up, to admit final defeat to all the forces dealing daily death blows to correct grammar? Uh, maybe not!

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM (E.S.T.)

WMNR FIne Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

 

Incidentally, did you know there is a new Turntable For One podcast posted on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange? Do you really want to be the last person on earth to listen to it? I didn’t think so. Click the link below

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.16.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

13 May

HINT:

This week I’ll be playing an hour of songs to celebrate a very special annual event which not only recognizes mankind’s BF, but our FFFs and our FLFs as well. Are you ready for B.K.T.A.W. on Turntable For One?

TURNTABLE FOR ONE   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

 

While you’re puzzling out the hint, might I suggest you listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Trust me. I only have your best interests at heart. Click the link below.

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.9.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

8 May

HINT:

This week’s show is an archive presentation. I might play Nancy Wilson but I won’t play Nancy LaMott.  I might play Ella Fitzgerald, but I won’t play Sarah Vaughan. I might play Nina Simone, but I definitely won’t play Billie Holiday. Find out why this Saturday night!

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM  (E.D.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

SPECIAL LISTENER ADVISORY!! Don’t panic. Now that I’ve got your attention, tune in to WMNR from 4-6 PM when I’ll be sitting in for Garrett Stack with two hours of the best of Broadway on his program, Broadway Bound!

 

While you’re waiting for Saturday, you could be listening to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Click the link below. 

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.2.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocals

29 Apr

HINT: 

Beginning Friday and for the next 7 days, my radio station, WMNR, will be celebrating its first-ever “Theme Week.” The theme this week will be “New Beginnings” and many of the broadcasters — classical, folk, and jazz — will be playing music that fits the theme. Will I bend and yield to such conformity? All I can say is, “Baaaa,”

 

TURNTABLE FOR ONE   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts radio and streaming live on wmnr.org

Of course, every week is theme week on Turntable For One. Don’t believe me? Check out the Turntable For One podcasts on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Just click the link below.

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (4.25.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocals #PRX

22 Apr

HINT:

International Jazz Day is Thursday, April 30th – not this Saturday night? Hey – they’re not the boss of me!!

 

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals & Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR FIne Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

 

PROGRAM NOTE:

In addition to Turntable For One, I’ll also be sitting in for Garrett Stack on Broadway Bound this Saturday, 4-6 (E.S.T.) with two hours of the best of Broadway. Okay, maybe I’m just an understudy. But I know I’m going out there as a nobody and coming back as well, two hours older.  Hope you’ll tune in. 

 

More Good News!!

There’s a new Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange! Don’t believe me? Click the link below and check out the show, “Breaking News.”

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (4.18.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocals

15 Apr

HINT:

What has 32 arms, 32 legs, 16 mouths, and one voice? 

I’ll let you think about that until Saturday night…

 

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

While you’re thinking about the hint, you could be listening to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, The Public Radio Exchange. It’s as simple as clicking the link below. 

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

BREAKING NEWS ABOUT THIS WEEK’S SHOW! (4.11.15) #JAZZ #JAZZRADIO #JAZZVOCALS #PRX

9 Apr

BREAKING NEWS: 

I’ve changed my mind about this week’s theme. Gee, I wonder if I can think of other “breaking news.”

 

TURNTABLE FOR ONE   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night    10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR FIne Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

 

Here’s some breaking news right now: there is a new Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange! Well? What are you waiting for?

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (4.11.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

8 Apr

HINT:

Sometimes you just know; it’s obvious, it’s inevitable, it’s irrefutable and you know that things just aren’t going to end well – A Kafka novel, a Schlesinger movie, Kim Kardashian’s presidential bid. Are there any musical examples? I wonder…

 

TURNTABLE FOR ONE   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

You know, there just might be a new Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. It would be worth a look, wouldn’t it?

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (4.4.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

2 Apr

HINT:

To take this week’s celebration of Throw-Back Thursday to the extreme, I’ll be playing an archive Turntable For One program on Saturday from a time when we were all younger and more carefree, okay, maybe just younger… 

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals & Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM  (E.D.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org and the Public Radio app.

Want even more blasts from the past? Slip into a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. One size fits all. 

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one