 Dear Listener, Happy 2013! Here we are on the cusp of another year of great music. If the first week in January is any indication, 2013 is going to be fun. Check out the programming highlights below. A new season of Song Travels, with Michael Feinstein, begins Wednesday at 6pm. Wynton Marsalis is the guest. WICN debuts a brand new show on Friday at 11pm. Jazz360, hosted by Dana Robbins, replaces Jazz Rocks which ended a few weeks ago. WICN thanks JazzRocks host Walter St. Denis for his years of great service! Dana returns to WICN for an exciting late night exploration of jazz. Please let us know what you think. I hope your new year resolutions include more listening to WICN. We look forward to being your 2013 music source. General Manager |
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| JAZZ 360 
Jazz 360, 11pm-2am, Fridays Host: Dana Robbins | Surround yourself in syncopation on Friday nights, as we navigate through various styles of jazz. Expect the unexpected as your host Dana Robbins brings you full-circle with an engaging playlist for late night.
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Programming of Note: Jazz Inspired: Lee Musiker Tuesday, January 1, 6PM Jazz pianist/conductor Lee Musiker talks about working with some of the great jazz vocalists of our time and his present gigs as musical director for Tony Bennett and Barbara Cook. Read More... Song Travels with Michael Feinstein:
Wynton Marsalis Wednesday, January 2, 6PM Trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis hails from one of New Orleans' most distinguished jazz families, and he has continued the Marsalis dynasty with multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the National Medal of Arts. Spend an hour with this legendary artist as he shares a few of his favorite things, including a recently discovered recording of Louis Armstrong's last known performance. Read More... Folk Revival: Lest we Forget Thursday, January 3, 7PM Annual tribute show to those folk artists who passed away in 2012, with special guest co-host Beth DeSombre. Read More...Jazz Set: Jon Faddis Friday, January 3, 6PM A great arrangement is catnip for this orchestra, once the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. Jim McNeely arranged "Sing Sing Sing" by Louis Prima. The late Frank Foster arranged "Jingle Bells" and "Giant Steps." Slide Hampton arranged Foster's "Shiny Stockings." Nnennah Freelon sings "I Thought About You" with pianist Ted Rosenthal for the late Dr. Billy Taylor and James Moody. Jon Faddis is the Maestro and trumpet soloist. Jazz Matinee: Al Saloky & Wayne Bergeron Sunday,January 6, 12PM Tune in for this special edition of Jazz Matinee as host Al Dean chats with the Director of Compaq Big Band, Al Saloky. They will be later joined by legendary trumpet player Wayne Bergeron who is enjoying a career as one of the most active players in the world. With studio dates, international touring, jazz concerts, guest soloist appearances and clinics, he has no intention of slowing down. Read More... Inquiry: Bonanos & Adler Sunday, January 6, 9PM In the 1970s photographers were shooting a billion Polaroid photographs each year, yet today the company is essentially non-existent. What went wrong? Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid was a legendary intellectual corporate leader that started out doing research in polarizing filters and ended up revolutionizing photography by creating a totally new technology of film development. Christopher Bonanos, writer and editor at New York Magazine, shares the history in Instant: The Story of Polaroid. At 9:30pm, Inquiry welcomes back editor, writer and chef Tamar Adler to talk about eating and cooking in the doldrums of winter. Read More... Business Beat: Karen Washington
Sunday, January 6, 10 PM Karen Washington has been a community activist in New York City since 1985, striving to make it a better place for all people to live. As a community gardener and board member of the New York Botanical Gardens, she has worked with Bronx neighborhoods to turn empty lots into community gardens. Karen will teach an all-day seminar during the NOFA-Mass. Winter Conference. It's titled "School Gardens 101, Feeducation: Bringing Agriculture Back in the Classroom." Read More... |
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| Artist of the Month PHIL WOODS 
One of the true masters of the bop vocabulary, Phil Woods has had his own sound since the mid-'50s and stuck to his musical guns throughout a remarkably productive career. There has never been a doubt that he is one of the top alto saxophonists alive, and he has lost neither his enthusiasm nor his creativity through the years. Woods' first alto was left to him by an uncle, and he started playing seriously when he was 12. He gigged and studied locally until 1948, when he moved to New York. He has mostly headed his own groups since 1955, including co-leadership of a combo with fellow altoist Gene Quill in the '50s logically known as "Phil & Quill." Woods popped up in a variety of settings in the 1960s -- on Benny Carter's classic Further Definitions record, touring Europe with the short-lived Thelonious Monk Nonet, and appearing on studio dates like the soundtracks to The Hustler and Blow Up. In 1973, Woods formed a quintet with pianist Mike Melillo, bassist Steve Gilmore, drummer Bill Goodwin, and guitarist Harry Leahey that had much greater success. Their recording Live at the Showboat officially launched the band, which today, after a few personnel changes, still tours the world. He is active as a bandleader, composer, arranger and soloist worldwide, and at his home in Delaware Water Gap where he has lived since 1976. | | |
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