The Jazz Format, swinging you around and driving you home. WHPK’s
famed DJs play the sounds of Jazz from the inside to the outside; their musical
knowledge will educate, enlighten, and entertain. Jazz broadcasts every weeekend
and most evenings with a variety that includes Latin Jazz, Be Bop, Swing,
Big Band, Free Jazz, the sounds of yesterday and tomorrow.
Monday |
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6:30pm |
9:00pm |
Zoundz!
Zoundz! A free, wild adventure in jazz from ragtime to the far future, and from many galaxies around the universe. Every Monday evening from 6:30 to 9, hear Zoundz! With your hosts Michael Rock and John Litweiler, right here on WHPK.
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John Litweiler
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Tuesday |
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7:00pm |
9:00pm |
Jazz Port
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Yaounde Olu
& Neysa Scott |
Wednesday |
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7:00pm |
9:00pm |
Crossroads: Where Jazz Meets Blues
You’ll hear everything from bebop to boogie woogie, from acid jazz to West Coast cool, featuring the greats and the up and comers who know how to swing. Musicians heard regularly on the program include Ray Bryant, Lou Donaldson, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Harris, David “Fathead” Newman, Joe Pass, Duke Robillard, Jimmy Smith, Clark Terry, Stanley Turrentine, and Dinah Washington.
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Leslie Keros |
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Jazz Gumbo
Hot and cool, familiar and new. Like a good gumbo, this show blends
flavors from sources around the world of jazz. From the classic and
modern masters to the inner and outer reaches of individual
improvisation and group empathy, I invite you to enjoy the tastes of
jazz and some of its unexpected delights.
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Matthew Goldwasser |
Thursday |
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7:00pm |
9:00pm |
The Jazz Supreme Show
Listen to The Jazz Supreme Show with Host/DJ Vaughn Wilson Thursdays from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM on WHPK 88.5 FM. Wilson plays classic jazz (such as John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone) and contemporary jazz (such as Roy Hargrove, Wynton Marsalis, Somi, Portico Quartet), discusses issues, provides humor, offers prize giveaways and has an infectious enthusiasm. You can also listen to The Jazz Supreme Show with Vaughn Wilson on the Internet at www.whpk.org. Bebop your ears and feet to the show!
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Vaughn Wilson |
Saturday |
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6:00am |
9:00am |
Alice in Jazzland
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Alice Brown |
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Velvet Hours
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Tundi |
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9:00am |
12:00pm |
Jammin John's Merri-Go-Round
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John Sanders |
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12:00pm |
2:00pm |
iRock Jazz Radio
iRock Jazz Radio features a progressive blend of innovative classics and music by today's NEW traditional jazz pioneers.
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Bonnie DeShong
& John Moultrie
& Dedry Jones |
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Urban Aspirations
Eavesdropping with Urban Aspirations" is the home of the curious jazz enthusiast, featuring an eclection (eclectic collection) of various jazz genres from Armstrong to Zawinul or "A to Z". You can Eavesdrop on Mark Coulter and Marcus Burks, altrenating Saturdays from noon until 2pm. "There's no telling what you might over-hear.
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Mark Coulter
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Sunday |
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3:00am |
6:00am |
Community Cultivations On The Air
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Lionel Abdul Haqq |
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6:00am |
8:00am |
Jazz Kicker's Den
Jazz Kicker's Den features Mainstream/Straight Ahead and other forms of America's musical gift to the world known as Jazz.
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Pete Mosby |
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Morning Jazz
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Michelle Drayton |
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8:00am |
10:00am |
The Laws of Jazz
Jazz at its best, with flavorful commentaries and
insightful, thought-provoking informational tidbots. Laws is
a law unto himself: relentless in his presentation of
top-notch jazz and extremely knowledgeable of
the musicians that present the sound.
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Andy Laws |
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The Tune-Up Show
Incorporates a variety of recordings—sometimes
focusing on a particular year, sometimes a specific artist.
Thomas presents historical and educational tidbits
only—no sidetalk.
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Rickie Thomas |
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10:00am |
12:00pm |
Jazzwalk
If Big Band Jazz is what you want to hear, or music from
legendary local musicians—especially from DuSable High
School—you
won’t want to miss this show. Daspit is witty and fun to
listen to, and his knowledge of
the music is amazing.
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Gil Daspit |
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The School of Jazz
Jonathan plays classic jazz, especially those performances of note that were of great influence, extraordinary in some capacity or representative of a particular movement in jazz.
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Jonathan Horwich |
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12:00pm |
2:00pm |
Jazz Rapp with the Impressario Al Carter-Bey
The impressario - the musical host of over 30 years of jazz radio experience. The host with a musical library of 30,000 recordings; keeping the musical history of jazz alive; jazz being america's only orginal art form, as the American Classical Music within the idiom of jazz". if your musical tastes vary and jazz pleases you the most join the impressario al carter-bey.
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Al Carter Bey |
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2:00pm |
4:00pm |
Journey Into Jazz
Journey into Jazz
focuses on the popular sounds
of jazz and the journey that the current local musicians
take to personalize their sound. Gentle Smooth Lady Phillips
dedicates most of her
show to uplifting local artists by playing their
recordings (usually renditions of jazz standards).
Phillips also conducts regular interviews with local
celebrities and keeps her listening community informed of
all the local happenings. She also often has
free giveaways for exciting events.
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Brenda Philips and Linda Hall (the Twins) |
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What Is This Thing Called Jazz?
WHPK's longest running jazz show, since 1976, with new music and guest interviews
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Lofton A. Emenari III |
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4:00pm |
6:00pm |
Jazz for Dessert
Jazz for Dessert serves up
beautiful jazz, from Third Stream classically-influenced, to
blues-influenced, to be-bop, to traditional, to cool, to contemporary;
the gamut of what is jazz for the discerning listener’s ear.
Like dessert, it’s all luscious, sweet, and so
satisfying.
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Sharon Masters |
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Straight Ahead Jazz
Yamaide plays principally acoustic jazz, based on the hard
bop tradition and sensibilities. Straight Ahead Jazz has a
few characteristic structural components; the typical
performance consists of a melody,
followed by improvisation on its chord
changes, improvised solos, and then the melody is repeated.
Some compositions, however, do go beyond these structural
bounds.
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Yamaide |
