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Jazz through the Day
On WRTI's All-Jazz Stream, and HD-2 Channel
Hosts: Jeff Fox, Bonnie Grice, Scott Hanley, Tony Mowod
Mondays through Saturdays, 6 am to 6 pm
Jazz through the Day can best be described as "Great Sounds from Great Artists." Featuring music by the masters and new artists, Jazz through the Day provides an entertaining and engaging tour of the American treasure: jazz. Here is an array of the artists you'll hear on the program:
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 and many, many more.
Playlists
Hosts
Jeff Fox
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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. Jeff's goal in his musical performance has always been attracting young players to jazz, and through radio, he hopes more people will come to know jazz as an accessible and enjoyable art.
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Bonnie Grice
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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.
Bonnie leads a busy life outside of radio. She is a librettist and author. In July 1993, the two-act
chamber opera, Mrs. Dalloway, for which Bonnie wrote the libretto based on the novel by Virginia
Woolf, had its critically-acclaimed world premiere by Lyric Opera Cleveland (music by Libby
Larsen). And in the fall of 1994, Bonnie wrote the book From Z to A - A Classical Lover's
Alternative, a unique, somewhat quirky, yet inclusive guide to the great composers, from Zappa to
John Adams. Bonnie is also a flutist and an aspiring singer. She's spent some time in the theatre as
both actor and producer. Plus, she's an avid fan of football and fast cars.
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Scott Hanley
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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. In a recent addition to his busy schedule, he has been appointed to an advisory committee for future internet activities of National Public Radio.
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.
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