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Eric Jackson

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

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 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

Jazz News Update: Herding the Jazz Cats

Jazz funeral for Michael P. Smith

Updated. Reeling from the impending cutbacks to WGBH’s programming, the Boston jazz community is beginning to find its footing in organizing a response. First up, a jazz funeral on the 5th of July.

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

Fuse Commentary: What Does WGBH Do When It Cuts Back On The Arts? It Celebrates, Of Course.

Jazz is dying on WGBH — long live the arts, and let us all eat cake financed by Citizens Bank at the upcoming Arts Weekend, created by WGBH and The Boston Globe

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Radio Tagged: Eric Jackson, Persona Non Grata, Steve Schwartz, Summer Arts Weekend, The Boston Globe, WGBH

Fuse Update: The Gathering Storm

Save Jazz on WGBH

Updated. The year 1962, the terminus of Richard Vacca’s new history of Boston jazz, marked an end to an era. Fifty years later, with the cutbacks in jazz programming at WGBH, are we approaching a similar inflection point?

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Radio Tagged: Eric Jackson, Facebook, Richard Vacca, Steve Schwartz, WGBH

Fuse Commentary: WGBH’s Radio Theater of the Absurd

WGBH is exploring an interesting question — how little can you invest in arts coverage and still have the chutzpah to ask for money from supporters who mistake crumbs for a loaf?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Radio Tagged: Eric in the Evening, Eric Jackson, Jazz, Persona Non Grata, Steve Schwartz, WGBH

Music Commentary: Radio Silence for Boston Jazz?

Jazz host Steve Schwartz

Updated.As many Boston listeners feared, WGBH has put its jazz programming on the road to extinction. What is to be done?

By: J R Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Radio Tagged: Eric Jackson, Steve Schwartz, WGBH

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