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WUSF Plans to Kill ALL of Its Jazz Programming. Attend Thursday’s Rally at the Station! More info on how to help!
Attend the “Save All Night Jazz on WUSF” rally! Thursday, Oct. 27 outside WUSF studios, from noon to 2 pm. More info. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE ALL NIGHT JAZZ ON WUSF! Email or call:General Manager JoAnn Urofsky — jurofsky@wusf.org; (813) 974-8700Program Director Sheila Rue — srue@wusf.org; (813) 974-8647Assistant Program Director Jose Luis Jimenez…
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Supporters of ‘All Night Jazz’ on Tampa’s WUSF 89.7-FM will host rally to save the show this week (Creative Loafing)
By Ray Roa (10/26) With less than week before “All Night Jazz” is set to be pulled off the air, Tampa supporters have announced a rally to try and save programming that’s brought jazz to generations of listeners, and supported the Bay area jazz scene, for the last 56 years. The “Rally to Save All Night Jazz…
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Joe Locke, Acclaimed Jazz Vibraphonist
What? Why on earth…? (Response to news of WUSF eliminating jazz) (Twitter, 10/25)
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John McLaughlin, Legendary Jazz and Fusion Guitarist
“I do understand that news is important, but it is my personal conviction that we have become addicted to news and it is rarely good,” he told CL, saying the station should perhaps compromise. “I would hate to see yet another Jazz radio station disappear after 56 years of great music that is without doubt…
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Ted Gioia, Notable Author of Jazz Books, Critic, and Musician
“The audience (for jazz) is growing, not shrinking. This is the time to reap the benefits of a half-century of jazz advocacy. It’s certainly not a time to walk away,” Gioia wrote in an email. “I could point to so many signs of the jazz resurgence. Just look at pop culture, where artists as diverse…
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Bob Bakert, Executive Editor of Jazz Guitar Today
“What the hell are you (WUSF) doing?”(as told to Ray Roa of Creative Loafing)
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Chuck Owen, Composer and Grammy-Nominated Leader of Jazz Surge; Former Longtime USF Jazz Prof
While I was not completely stunned by the recent announcement that WUSF intends to terminate its on-air jazz programming (which has not been appropriately supported ever since Mike Cornette retired as Jazz Program Director), I was profoundly and deeply disappointed in those who made this decision. After 40 years of engagement with WUSF, in a…
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Joe Locke, Internationally Acclaimed Jazz Vibraphonist
What? Why on earth…?(Twitter, 10/25)
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Bob Seymour, WUSF Jazz Director (1981-2016)
As told to Ray Roa for a Creative Loafing story “In an area with a pretty vibrant jazz and artistic scene, it hurts to see a piece of it taken away,” he wrote in an email. “And a podcast or some on-line clips are not going to replace a well-curated rotation of jazz, that keeps…
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Ted Gioia, Nationally Known Author of Music Books (“Music: A Subversive History”), Jazz Critic & Musician
@TedGioia Here’s the petition to keep WUSF All Night Jazz on the air in Tampa—cancellation was announced (with no reason given) after 56 years. Please show your support. (Twitter, 10/21)