Worcester, MA 01608 http://WICN.org Frequency:90.5 City of license:Worcester Watts: Hours per week of local jazz:55 Arbitron market:#115 Worcester — Metro 12-plus: 432500 TYLER ALDERSON, New Music Coordinator 508-752-0700 (station)
Pianist Jaki Byard lived three quarters of a century, and we’ve had the last quarter to consider his impact as a keyboard stylist, an influential teacher, and a saxophonist as well. JHDb joins in the festivities celebrating 100-years since Byard’s birth in Worcester, June 15, 1922. ...
Since 1984, Tom Reney has hosted "Jazz à la Mode" on 88.5 FM WFCR, sponsored by New England Public Radio. Jazz Radio Study For more than 12 years, Brian Barlow was a radio host for WICN Radio (Worcester, MA), eventually becoming General Manager of the station in 1998. In 2011, ...
Widely regarded as one of today’s leading voices on the trombone, Steve Davis’s lyrical, hard-swinging style first gained him broad recognition. Born in Worcester, MA, in 1967, Davis was raised in Binghamton, NY, and graduated in 1989 from Hartt School’s Jacki...
An aspiring composer and son of a Reform rabbi from Worcester, Mass., Klein had taken a traditional Jewish prayer service – complete with candle blessing, Kiddush, psalmist meditation and the Sh’ma – and set it to jazz tunes, from snappy to bluesy to bossa nova and even modal. Congrega...
Pianist Jaki Byard lived three quarters of a century, and we’ve had the last quarter to consider his impact as a keyboard stylist, an influential teacher, and a saxophonist as well. JHDb joins in the festivities celebrating 100-years since Byard’s birth in Worcester, June 15, 1922. ...