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Big Band Saturday Night

Now in HD — Saturday evenings from 8:00-10:00pm on Public Radio 89.5 HD1

"Hi Alan Lambert, Big Band Saturday Night. Coming up in future weeks on the show: features on Charlie Barnet (the millionaire big band orchestra leader), Gene Krupa (one of the most exciting performers in jazz) and some rare recordings on our ongoing "Spinning Round Table" series.

Join us live at 89.5 HD-1 or on the stream at: www.kwgs.org, following our buddy John Wooley at seven with "Swing on This" and pure jazz at ten with Scott Gregory. Big Band Saturday Night at 8 o'clock...what you expect from a big band radio show and more!"

We'll keep the radio on for you.

Alan bigband@publicradiotulsa.org

All This Jazz

With Scott Gregory from 10:00pm - midnight Saturday nights on Public Radio 89.5 HD1

A reporter once asked Louis Armstrong to define jazz. He replied with something like, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know.” He wasn’t, of course, saying that jazz is exclusive or inaccessible. Much the opposite. Anyone can get it, and everyone should, and getting it tends to happen instantly and easily and perpetually.

ALL THIS JAZZ delivers music old and young, classic and contemporary, familiar and freshly made. Scott doesn’t play everything, but everything he plays is good (we hope). Each week, the 11pm - midnight hour has a theme.

Jazz is rather like the movies (but without all the super-big money): a perhaps uniquely American invention, just over a century old and by now international in scope and character — but full of tangents, local and underground and otherwise — and with aims and origins that concern art as well as entertainment. ALL THIS JAZZ is a program with a lot of favorite films, so to speak, both past and present. (Popcorn is optional. If you must talk, please whisper.)

Scott Gregory is a writer and editor who was born (1970) and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Among the great many cassette tapes he bought at the now-vanished Sound Warehouse near 51st and Lewis are John Coltrane’s MY FAVORITE THINGS, Chet Baker’s THE BEST THING FOR YOU, Dave Brubeck’s JAZZ GOES TO COLLEGE, and budget-priced compilations by Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington, Herbie Hancock, and Count Basie. He still has them all, though most of them hiss terribly at this point. He used to live in New York City. Contact Scott at AllThisJazzRadio@AOL.com.

Tulsa’s New Jazz Station

Hear it only on HD radio, twenty-four hours a day, from Oklahoma’s first FM station

Do these artists have something in common with your taste in music?

Clifford Brown, Billie Holiday, Max Roach, Herbie Mann, Dianne Reeves, Ray Charles, Art Pepper, Harry Connick, Jr., The Modern Jazz Quartet, Paul Desmond, Shirley Horn, Benny Carter, Horace Silver, Charlie Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Turner, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Billy Taylor, Houston Person, Barry Harris, Nina Simone, Ray Bryant, Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader, Etta Jones, Wes Montgomery, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Gene Ammons, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Abdullah Ibrahim, Red Garland, Scott Hamilton, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Jack McDuff, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Charles Brown, Kevin Mahogany, Dinah Washington, Karrin Allyson, Count Basie, Carmen McRae, Sonny Stitt, Monty Alexander, Jimmy Smith.

If you found yourself nodding yes, then you’re in for a continuous all-day and all-night treat!

Public Radio Tulsa proudly presents Great Sounds from Great Artists, just for you. With music selection informed by listeners like you, Jazz 89.5 HD2 features music by the masters and new artists certain to give you an entertaining and engaging tour of an American treasure.

Jazz has always had a home over KWGS, ever since it first signed on in 1947. Now, nearly 60 years later, you can listen to mainstream jazz in compact-disc quality HD sound throughout the day — at the same time that NPR news and information is playing on 89.5 HD1. All it takes to listen is a new HD Radio.

You’ll become quite at home with program hosts Bonnie Grice, Scott Hanley, Jeff Fox, Tony Mowod, Ken Campbell, and Bob Studebaker. Their warm and friendly style perfectly complements the music. And their knowledge of jazz will keep you engaged throughout the day.

Let us know what you think about this new public service. Email us at answers@publicradiotulsa.org.