Willard Jenkins

Willard Jenkins: journalist, broadcaster, artistic dir./producer & independent arts consultant @ home of The Independent Ear.

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Here's an opportunity to express your love of jazz and walk away with a cash prize! Among the judges - the great Wayne Shorter. Visit https://t.co/54zMGBYPU2 for complete details.
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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3 livestream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) 1st hour: The Chronicles of Wes - the great Wes Montgomery. New Release Hour will include HU's own Irene Jalenti's latest on the cusp of her 10/22 hit @ Keystone Korner Baltimore. Don't sleep..

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (WPFW 89.3FM livestream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL): TENOR MONK. Voice yr choice of Monk's great tenor players - John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, or Charlie Rouse; premise: which had the deepest partnership & investment in Monk's music?

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3 stream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) opening hour will feature a great mix of classic sounds. For What's New we'll focus on exceptional new albums from Kenny Garrett and Nnenna Freelon's deeply cathartic Time Traveler. Don't sleep...

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Q&A with DC Jazz Festival Artistic Director Willard Jenkins https://t.co/tAncpyX1O2

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3 livestream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) continues WPFW's daylong Malcolm X birthday celebration with A Jazz Perspective on Malcolm X. We'll include some of the jazz Malcolm loved, spoken word, and jazz tributes. Don't sleep!

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3 livestream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) we'll hear from saxman TK Blue honoring Randy Weston this wknd @ Keystone Korner/Baltimore, recent ancestor Curtis Fuller, +Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Jaco Pastorius & more.

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3FM stream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) will continue our survey of South African jazz with artists on the current scene. Join us for 2 hours of jazz from South Africa - from the townships & beyond! Don't sleep!

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3 stream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) closes Jazz Appreciation Month & National Poetry Month with another Jazzoetry mashup, perf poets ranging from Jack Kerouac to Sekou Sundiata & beyond. The New Release Hour is 11-12. Don't sleep!

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3FM stream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL): Pt 1 of our Jazz Appreciation Month/National Poetry Month mashup featuring The Jazzoets; start w/3 poet laureates of jazz: Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, & Jayne Cortez. At 11 What's New returns.

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Today's 106th birthday of immortal Billie Holiday WPFW 89.3FM streaming: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL celebrates Lady Day in words & music from 5am-midnight. I'm closing the day with Billie's vocal evolution from 9pm-mid on Ancient/Future Radio. Tonight: all Lady Day... don't sleep!

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3FM stream https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) closes Women's History Month w/International Sweethearts of Rhythm +Dee Dee Bridgewater, DIVA, Terri Lyne Carrington, & Michelle Rosewoman. New Release Hour focus: women's releases. Don't sleep!

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3 stream https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) continues our celebration of Women's History Month w/spins fr Allison Miller, Helen Sung, Betty Carter & more, plus an all-women New Release Hour 11-12. Don't sleep!

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Just in time for Women's History Month comes vocalist Karrin Allyson's new "Shoulder to Shoulder", centennial tribute to women's suffrage. Read about this record from Karrin's perspective in the Independent Ear here: https://t.co/hPfr6whn0v…lder-to-shoulder/

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3FM stream: https://t.co/guIaonW5TL) continues Women's History Month programming w/a first hour: Sarah Vaughan, Lakecia Benjamin, and NEA Jazz Masters Joanne Brackeen & Melba Liston. What's New feat. new/recent women's releases.

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Tonight's Ancient/Future Radio (10-12 WPFW 89.3FM streaming https://t.co/guIaonW5TL): 1st of 4 Mar programs celebrating women in jazz for Women's History Month. First hours feat 4 women; this wk: Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Geri Allen & Jane Bunnett. Don't sleep!

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Tonight's edition of Ancient/Future Radio (WPFW 89.3FM streaming https://t.co/guIaonW5TL 10-midnight) first hour will feature Ralph Peterson's music. During What's New we'll feature recent music fr Ralph Peterson's Onyx Records, as well as a few new vocal albums. Don't sleep!

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With pandemic-forced jazz venue closings, perhaps we've arrived at a moment where jazz enthusiasts should consider development of efforts to provide jazz performance platforms in their own community. Read about such developments of the past here: https://t.co/K8iTFcwJQx

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@johannhari101 would love to communicate re. a Billie Holiday project