Featuring…

All This Jazz

With Scott Gregory from 10:00pm - midnight Saturday nights

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.

Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

The Oddly Informative News Quiz from NPR

NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! takes a fast-paced, irreverent look at the news of the world—and the weird. Now in its sixth year, the show offers a modern and sometimes raucous twist on the old-time radio quiz show, mining NPR news stories for quiz questions. The host is Peter Sagal, who is an award-winning playwright and father of three in his spare time. America’s favorite newscaster, NPR’s Carl Kasell, is the show’s official judge and scorekeeper.

Each week, Sagal quizzes the panelists and listeners to determine just how closely they paid attention to the week’s news. He serves up questions in all forms: lightning rounds, tape from NPR news shows, multiple choice, identify the “fake” story and fill-in-the-blank limericks. Listeners call 888-WAIT-WAIT for a chance to win the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by Carl Kasell for their home’s answering machine or voice mail.

One of the most popular segments is “Who’s Carl This Time?” in which Mr. Kasell recites quotes from the week’s newsmakers as contestants guess whom he is impersonating. “This is the only show where you’ll get to hear NPR’s most senior newscaster impersonate Britney Spears,” the Wait Wait producers say. Another signature Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! game, “Not My Job,” invites well-known local and national personalities to answer questions that are out—way out—of their area of expertise.

A rotating trio of witty panelists completes the Wait Wait team. They include author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., Boston Globe writer Charlie Pierce, Washington Post columnist Roxanne Roberts, writer/ performer Adam Felber, BBC contributor Sue Ellicott, author P.J. O’Rourke, comedian Paula Poundstone and humorist/pundit Mo Rocca.

Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! is heard every Saturday afternoon from 1-2 pm on Public Radio 89.5.

Visit the show’s Web site at http://waitwait.npr.org to take the weekly news quiz, meet the panelists and crew, and check out five years of archived shows.

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