16-Station Georgia Public Broadcasting Newtork Expands Its Jazz Progra

[birdmonk]

Georgia Public Broadcasting is pleased to add another original program

to its jazz line-up. Beginning October 7 veteran jazz journalist and publicist

Mitchell Feldman will start producing and hosting "Jazz Without Borders"

from the studios of WACG/90.7FM in Augusta each week from midnight

Saturday until 3AM Saunday.

This new show expands the stylistic and geographic spectrum

of jazz currently heard during GPB's other jazz offerings such as

"The Jazz Spot," "Piano Jazz" and "Jazz With Bob Parlocha."

"Among my goals are: to air more progressive jazz (both historical and

current) in an effort attract younger listeners and establish an

audience base for the music in the years to come; to play new releases

often as a way to support the jazz music of the moment which is often

overshadowed by or gets ignored by mainstream jazz radio in favor of

popular and archival favorites; to play non-US artists not only

from Latin America and the Caribbean but also from Europe; and to

celebrate the heyday during the 1970s of jazz rock fusion and freer forms of jazz."

"Jazz Without Borders" will mix post-1950s modern jazz (i.e. the music of

such masters as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John

Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, etc.), classic fusion (electric

Miles, Weather Report, Return to Forever, John McLaughlin, etc.) and

freer forms of jazz from such creative music scenes as Chicago's AACM,

St. Louis's BAG and the lower Manhattan loft scene from their heydays

in the 1970s (the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Air, World Saxophone Quartet, etc,;

current releases by artists keeping the mainstream jazz tradition alive today

(i.e. Wynton Marsalis, Pat Martino, the Clayton Brothers, Cedar Walton, etc.);

established and emerging visionaries extending jazz's stylistic horizons (e.g.

Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Uri Caine, Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane,

Vijay Iyer, Chris Potter, Avishai Cohen, the Bad Plus, etc.); "Jam Bands" (Charlie Hunter,

Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive, etc.); and non-US artists from Europe,

the Caribbean, South America, Africa, etc. (Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu,

Gianluca Petrella, Michel Portal, Tomasz Stanko, Jan Garbarek, Chucho

Valdes, Oscar Castro Neves, Eddie Palmieri, etc.).

Mitchell Feldman has been publicizing, promoting and marketing jazz,

classical and world music and writing about the music as a freelance journalist

since 1976. As he says "My formative years that laid the foundation for success I would

have both in the U.S. and abroad were spent in Georgia -- on the Contemporary Concert

Committee and as Music and Jazz Director at WUOG-FM while attending journalism grad

school at the University of Georgia in the

late 70s; as Music Program Director and producer of the 1980 Atlanta Free Jazz

Festival and 1981 World Music Concert Series while working for the City

of Atlanta Department of Cultural Affairs; and as the weekly freelance

jazz critic for The Atlanta Constitution, music editor of Atlanta

Magazine and jazz columnist for Creative Loafing in the early-mid 80s."

From 2004-2006 Feldman hosted "Friday Night Jazz" on Jazz 89 KUVO in

Denver, the #1 major market jazz station in the U.S. He recently relocated

to Augusta, GA and will host "Jazz Without Borders" live each week from the

studios of GPB affiliate WACG 90.7 FM in Augusta.

Listen to Georgia Public Broadcasting Radio online at www.gpb.org

The GPB Network consists of: Albany 91.7 FM * Athens 91.7 FM *

Augusta 90.7 FM * Brunswick 88.9 FM * Carrollton 90.7 FM * Columbus

88.1 FM * Dahlonega 89.5 FM * Demorest 88.3 FM Fort Gaines 90.9 FM *

Macon 89.7 FM * Rome 97.7 FM * Savannah 91.1 FM * St. Marys 1190 AM *

Tifton 91.1 FM * Valdosta 91.7 FM * Waycross 90.1 FM

[ghost of miles]

Sounds like a great show, birdmonk! Are you Mr. Feldman, by any chance? I notice he recently relocated from Denver... which matches your Feb. '04 origin. Either way, keep us posted--I'll tune in for sure.

[alocispepraluger102]

Sounds like a great show, birdmonk! Are you Mr. Feldman, by any chance? I notice he recently relocated from Denver... which matches your Feb. '04 origin. Either way, keep us posted--I'll tune in for sure.

a great time....if one is not at a club.

looking forward.

thanks, mr. ghoul.

Edited September 10, 2006 by alocispepraluger102

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Georgia has 16 public radio statoins?!?

[Chuck Nessa]

Jazz pimps can do good and bad.

[Ken Dryden]

Georgia Public Radio is a statewide network using a bunch of repeaters around the state.

It's been a long time since Mitchell was host of of "Cruisin' with Abdul" on the University of Georgia's radio station back in the late 1970s...

[birdmonk]

Sounds like a great show, birdmonk! Are you Mr. Feldman, by any chance? I notice he recently relocated from Denver... which matches your Feb. '04 origin. Either way, keep us posted--I'll tune in for sure.

Thanks, Ghost of Miles!

[birdmonk]

Sounds like a great show, birdmonk! Are you Mr. Feldman, by any chance? I notice he recently relocated from Denver... which matches your Feb. '04 origin. Either way, keep us posted--I'll tune in for sure.

a great time....if one is not at a club.

looking forward.

thanks, mr. ghoul.

Thanx Mr. Ghoul!

[birdmonk]

Georgia has 16 public radio statoins?!?

ACtually it has more than 16 - the NPR affiliate in Atlanta, which strangely is NOT a part of GA Public Broadcasting, is WABE (run by Atlanta Board of Education)...Then there is the Peachtree Public Radio network. There is a community station in Atlanta called WRFg, etc,

[birdmonk]

Jazz pimps can do good and bad.

Chuck -

We have not been in touch since the 1980s when I was running CMP Records in Germany.

In your first communication regarding me since then you imply I am a pimp? Where is this bullshit coming from? Can't see what I ever did or did to you to come within miles of being called a pimp.

What does that make you? A jazz whore?

Am looking forward to playing the Nessa vinyl I have loving kept for decades on my program unless that's pimping?

Guess you missed taking your medication the day you read about my radio show.

Music always,

Mitchell

[birdmonk]

Sounds like a great show, birdmonk! Are you Mr. Feldman, by any chance? I notice he recently relocated from Denver... which matches your Feb. '04 origin. Either way, keep us posted--I'll tune in for sure.

Thanks - and yes I am Mitchell Feldman

[birdmonk]

Georgia Public Radio is a statewide network using a bunch of repeaters around the state.

It's been a long time since Mitchell was host of of "Cruisin' with Abdul" on the University of Georgia's radio station back in the late 1970s...

Those were the good ole days, weren't they Ken!