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Piano Jazz is a weekly one-hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It began on June 4, 1978, and was hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918–2013) until 2011. It is the longest-running cultural program on NPR.
Jazz Profiles was an American radio show produced by NPR and hosted by jazz singer Nancy Wilson. It featured hour-long retrospectives on the lives of famous jazz musicians, or sometimes on famous albums such as Miles Davis ' Kind of Blue .
NPR Music is a project of National Public Radio, an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization, [1] that launched in November 2007 to present public radio music programming and original editorial content for music discovery. NPR Music offers current and archival podcasts, live concert webcasts, reviews ...
She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011. [2] After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945, [3] she resided in the United States when not travelling throughout the world to perform. In 1969, she founded Halcyon Records, a recording company that issued albums for 10 years.
The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR; it is known by both names. [10] In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and its radio hosts have used the tag line "This ... is NPR" for many years. [10]
Hot Jazz Saturday Night is a weekly jazz program broadcast on WAMU, a public radio station owned by American University and affiliated with National Public Radio or NPR. [1] It has been hosted since 1980 (with a short period of suspension) by Rob Bamberger. [2]
KJZZ (91.5 FM) is a National Public Radio member station in Phoenix, Arizona.Owned by Rio Salado College, it operates from studios on the college's campus in Tempe.KJZZ airs a format of NPR, and blues and airs jazz on its HD2 subchannel.
KVTI (90.9 FM) is a National Public Radio affiliate station operated by Northwest Public Radio, licensed to Tacoma, Washington, and operates at 90.9 MHz with an ERP of 51 kW. As an "NPR & Classical Music" station, it broadcasts NPR news, local and syndicated classical music shows (switching to jazz music on weekends), and other public radio ...