Save All Night Jazz on WUSF

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…

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…

What? Why on earth…? (Response to news of WUSF eliminating jazz) (Twitter, 10/25)

“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…

“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…

“What the hell are you (WUSF) doing?”(as told to Ray Roa of Creative Loafing)

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…

What? Why on earth…?(Twitter, 10/25)

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…