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Jazz Preview: Radio Host Eric Jackson Anchors Jazz Week 2018

Eric Jackson at the Beantown Jazz Festival

WGBH’s Eric Jackson has truly been the voice of jazz in Boston for more than forty years. This year, Boston Jazz Week centers around a celebration of Eric’s four decades at the heart of the jazz scene in the Boston metro area.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Preview, Radio Tagged: Boston Jazz Week, Eric Jackson

Poetry Review: Two Chapbooks from Anton Yakovlev — Urban Alienation, Perfectly Pitched

Yakovlev’s poems speak to the reader quietly, with assumed familiarity.

By: Vince Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Radio Tagged: Anton Yakovlev, chapbooks, Finishing Line Press, Neptune Court, Poetry, The Ghost of Grant Wood, The Operating System Press

Fuse News: How Loud Does David Koch’s Money Talk in Boston?

Mayer’s report deals with David Koch throwing his weight around at WNET and PBS. Unfortunately, she does not talk about whether Koch’s powerful presence has influenced WGBH.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News, Radio Tagged: David Koch, Koch Industries, Public Radio, WGBH

Fuse News Review: Terry Gross’s Thrice-Told Tales

What has NPR’s Terry Gross learned after all these years of probing famous people’s psyches? “We are all mortal. Life is short, and for some life is full of pain.”

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Fuse News, Radio Tagged: Fresh Air, NPR, Terry Gross, The Celebrity Series of Boston

Book Review: The Boston Jazz Chronicles — Indispensible History

The Boston Jazz Chronicles

Richard Vacca’s The Boston Jazz Chronicles will be a foundational document that other researchers will turn to again and again as they delve into more specific niches of Boston jazz history and unearth as yet unknown artifacts of this era and its neglected body of music.

By: J.R. Carroll Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Radio, Television Tagged: Boston, history, Richard Vacca

Fuse Arts Commentary: WGBH Damage Control — Lip Service for Jazz

The plans to serve the jazz community that WGBH offered to JazzBoston during the meeting, from an internet jazz station to making Eric Jackson more visible on the station’s talk shows, are only part and parcel of the strategic dithering, a cover for lowering standards and doing little.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Radio Tagged: Eric Jackson, Persona Non Grata, Phil Redo, WGBH

Fuse Commentary: The Demise of Arts and Culture on WGBH — Hypocrisy in Plain Sight

Discard the empty rhetoric about “amplifying the arts,” follow the money and you will eventually find, winding your way through all the obfuscation and spin, WGBH’s thrifty corporate character.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Radio Tagged: arts and culture, Jonathan Abbott, Persona Non Grata, WGBH

Arts Interview: Jazz DJ Steve Schwartz Signs Off . . . But Swings On

According to former WGBH Jazz DJ Steve Schwartz, “In retrospect, the writing was on the wall. About a year and a half ago, our shows were cut by an hour; before that, we were told we could no longer use the names of our shows or our theme songs.”

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Radio Tagged: Jazz Boston, Steve Schwartz, WGBH

Fuse Commentary: WGBH — No Excuses

WGBH is not even attempting to make any excuses, not bothering to put in the energy to explain why the station isn’t using funding from its supporters to hire first-class journalists or to create news programming that builds community and educates because it challenges, investigates, and digs deeper.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Radio Tagged: Boston Public Radio, WGBH

Fuse Update: Sunset for Weeknight Jazz at WGBH

JazzBoston flyer

July 11 update.The New Orleans-style funeral for jazz on WGBH radio was an amazing coming-together of musicians from across the spectrum of styles. It was an occasion for mourning the loss of Steve Schwartz and the diminution of Eric Jackson, to be sure, but it was also an occasion for celebrating with more than a little wonderment the recognition that we all are, indeed, a community.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Radio Tagged: Boston Public Library, Eric Jackson, JazzBoston, Steve Schwartz, WGBH

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