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This Week On Radio Free Athens: Nov. 16, 2024
< < Back toRadio 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 or click HERE to listen.
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6 p.m. – 9 p.m.: Jazz Excursions with Dr. Art Cromwell
Saturday Excursions commemorates the transition of two artists, and the birthdate of a third, all part of subsequent generations of Jazz artists. Collectively they are:
Roy Haynes (d. Nov. 12 at 99), Lou Donaldson (d. Nov. 9 at 98),
and James “Jabbo” Ware (b. Nov. 16 d. Dec. 29, 2022 at 80).
The Transitions: Drummer Roy Haynes was among the last of the drummers who developed a distinct propulsive approach demanded by Bebop’s velocity. Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson emerged in the Hardbop period, became a prodigious Blue Note records artist, and was involved in the evolution of the tangential Soul Jazz era.
Birthdate Commemoration: James “Jabbo” Ware was among the contingent of Jazz artists who emerged from St. Louis’ Black Artists Group (BAG), alongside Chicago’s AACM, represented a new wave of Midwestern Jazz artists who made significant contributions to NYC’s Loft Jazz period,
Join Excursions Sat. Nov. 16 from 6-9 pm EST for our recognition of these contributors an 80 year-long wave of creativity that became America’s gift to the world.