Weekdays

Jeff Fox

Host

Jeff Fox is an Associate Professor of English and Japanese at the College of Southern Idaho, and he is also a working musician who plays guitar, bass, and saxophone. He has played in the CSI Jazz Orchestra, which played at Montreux, Switzerland Jazz Festival which has appeared in New York City at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in 2001. He has fronted several jazz groups over the years ranging from an eight-piece little big band to a duo featuring sax and guitar. Jeff has also performed on and produced several CDs for local jazz artists.

Jeff has been involved off and on in jazz radio for over twenty years. In addition to being a producer and host of the nationally broadcast JazzWorks, he also hosts a local show which airs on public radio stations in Idaho.

Bonnie Grice

Host

For over 20 years, Bonnie Grice has programmed some of the most listened-to music on public radio. Her wealth of radio experience, producing/hosting and interviewing, add up to a standard of professionalism that she has spent a lifetime developing.

She hosted her first live talk show at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio, while pursuing a Master’s Degree in Mass Communication at Miami University. She was the fine arts editor and daily music host at WKSU in Kent and then the morning drive host and producer/host of a weekly arts magazine for KUSC in Los Angeles. Bonnie’s tenure as producer/announcer in public radio includes other NPR affiliates such as WNYC in New York and WGBH in Boston, plus a variety of commercial stations including KKGO in Los Angeles and its sister station in San Francisco. Currently, she freelances as host/producer for NPR in Washington, DC, and can be heard coast-to-coast Monday through Friday on the nationally syndicated jazz network, Jazzworks.

Tony Mowod

Host

Tony Mowod, Executive Producer/Jazz, at WDUQ-FM 90.5, is the President and Founder of the Pittsburgh Jazz Society, and has been one of Pittsburgh’s most enduring champions of jazz for over four decades.

Even as a teenager, Tony dazzled by the tremendous number of jazz greats from his native Pittsburgh, responded to them not only as a fan does, but as a young musician himself. The vibraphone was his instrument of choice after studying classical piano as a youngster.

Tony has also been involved in theater. Appearing off-Broadway and on TV, as well as local pursuits in professional summer stock, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Children’s Theater, and Duquesne University’s Red Masquers, among others. Mowod also serves on the board of the American Federation of Jazz Societies.

Weekends

Scott Hanley

Host

Scott Hanley has experience in most aspects of broadcasting, especially public radio, in a twenty-plus year career. A former reporter, arts producer, music director, news director and program director, he is active with a number of influential public broadcasting organizations and is a regular leader or panelist at national conferences.

Scott has a special affinity for jazz-oriented radio. He has been a session leader or panelist for many national conferences specifically related to jazz music and has experience as a concert and festival producer/promoter. Mr. Hanley also serves as volunteer coordinator of the Jazz Radio Consortium, an ongoing collaboration between public radio stations intent on improving jazz programming nationwide.

A trained musician, Hanley had an active performing career in years past, including vocal work in choral, operatic, musical theater and jazz combo settings, plus instrumental work as a trombonist. Although he performs infrequently, he is most likely to be heard these days singing jazz in a small group setting.

Ken Campbell

Host

Ken Campbell is on staff at WSKG in Binghamton, NY and is approaching his 10th anniversary. While he’s hosted every kind of musical program on the station’s schedule, his first reason for pursuing work in public radio was his love of jazz.

A native of Bloomington, Indiana, and the son of a classical music devotee, Ken didn’t hear a lot of jazz growing up. He began to discover the music when he picked up the saxophone during his days at Denison University, in Granville, OH. He graduated in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, and has been involved in radio since then.

Ken has, when his schedule permits, continued to pursue his saxophone playing since graduation. He’s played with the Harpur Jazz Ensemble (Binghamton University) and the Cornell University Lab Ensembles, as a “community member”. In his times with those bands he’s had the thrill of sharing the stage with the likes of Donald Byrd, Dr. Billy Taylor, Toshiko Akiyoshi and McCoy Tyner.

Bob Studebaker

Host

With an avid interest in history, Bob has taught the “History of Jazz” at Carnegie Mellon University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning, tracing the roots of jazz from 17th century West Africa to the many influences and experiences that have contributed to the evolution of “America’s classical music.”

Bob has hosted high school students in the Professional Experience Program at Pittsburgh’s Penn Hills, teaching them about and giving hands-on experience with recording and editing for radio.