WNUR

[Lazaro Vega]

http://jazz.wnur.org/jazzshow/bestof07/

[alocispepraluger102]

a note from andy pierce:

Friends:

I will be back on-air, every other week, beginning Sunday, March 2, 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. on WHPK, 88.5 FM. Most people will only be able to hear it online, www.whpk.org.

I'll also be subbing on WNUR, 89.3 FM, on Friday, Feb. 29, from 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., for Alain. WNUR can be heard on the north and northwest side, and south all the way to the stockyards -- depending on the weather, the moon and other unknown factors.

Playing jazz and creative music.

Unfortunately, things are kind of grim at the WHPK studio. The collection looks as if the last 30 or 40 years did not happen in jazz. I felt like an archaelogist going through the stacks. The place is very much stuck in time but functioning. It reminds me of the line from early Star Trek: "We've sustained damage but we are still able to maneuver."

Therefore any and all sharing of cds will be appreciated. I will get them play and encourage other jazz djs to do the same. Most of the deejays bring their own (straight-ahead) stuff. I will help building the new, local section.

The archives are interesting but spotty. I found an early Henry Grimes album ... and Fred's second and third LPs...

Andy Pierce

[johnlitweiler]

It's good that Andy is joining WHPK. The station is a U. of Chicago student organization, all volunteers, and the jazz d.j.s are mostly older South Siders, long past our student years (and most of us never attended the U. of C. anyway). His criticisms of the library and studio are on the mark, but most jazz d.j.s play from their own collections. It's a 100-watt station heard from the Loop to the west and south city limits. The AACM used to have a weekly show there when it was a 10-watter and Ed Wilkerson and I and others did shows there in the 1980s when the balance was toward outside jazz. At present Zoundz! (Mike Rock and I, Mondays, 6:30-9 pm Central time) is the only mainly outside show, but maybe Andy willbe adventurous, too.

[alocispepraluger102]

It's good that Andy is joining WHPK. The station is a U. of Chicago student organization, all volunteers, and the jazz d.j.s are mostly older South Siders, long past our student years (and most of us never attended the U. of C. anyway). His criticisms of the library and studio are on the mark, but most jazz d.j.s play from their own collections. It's a 100-watt station heard from the Loop to the west and south city limits. The AACM used to have a weekly show there when it was a 10-watter and Ed Wilkerson and I and others did shows there in the 1980s when the balance was toward outside jazz. At present Zoundz! (Mike Rock and I, Mondays, 6:30-9 pm Central time) is the only mainly outside show, but maybe Andy willbe adventurous, too.

andy is quite adventurous (he works or worked at the velvet for quite a while).

Edited February 20, 2008 by alocispepraluger102