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This Week On Radio Free Athens: Sept. 7, 2024
< < Back toATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – Radio Free Athens (RFA) is broadcast Saturdays on WOUB 1340 AM and allows community volunteers and Ohio University students to present music and interview content through a format-free, host-driven program. Find the schedule and details about Saturday’s programs below. Listen to 1340 AM at this link.
A number of years ago Sonny Rollins shared a few backstage moments with me during rehearsal for Dizzy Gillespie’s 75th Birthday Concert at Wolf Trap Park for the Performing Arts in Virginia. In spite of the comings and goings of musicians in the hall, and periodic bellowing from loudspeaker announcements overhead, we managed to focus our brief time for a short interview, later shaped into a segment for a radio special.
In celebration of Sonny’s 94th birthday (Sept. 7), I retrieved the interview from my archives in hope that you will enjoy these brief moments I had with one of the last of that great generation of Hard-Bop artists. Saturday on Excursions, from 6:06-9:00 pm on WOUB.