You’re Invited To Our Fall Listener Party!
Jazz90.1 invites you to a party! Join us Friday October 24 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. for live jazz by Laura Dubin and Antonio Guerrero, refreshments, and tours of the Jazz90.1 studios. […]
Check Out Our Fall ’25 Thank You Gifts!
Our fall pledge drive is right around the corner, and we have some amazing thank you gifts available. Whether it’s a new hooded sweatshirt, a new knit winter cap, or […]
ARTICLE: Overseas Record Companies Can Avoid Trump’s Tariffs
Overseas Record Companies Can Avoid Trump’s Tariffs For Purchases Under $800 A few weeks ago I started to get a trickle of emails from European record companies informing me that […]
August 2025 Blog Post
It’s Time For Public Media To Do Some Reflecting Last month, a massive federal spending cut was passed. As part of that bill, $1.1 billion was eliminated for the Corporation […]
JazzKids 2025-26 – Week 2 – John Pizzarelli
By: Jaclyn Breeze — John Pizzarelli is a jazz guitarist and vocalist, born in April 1960. He is known for expanding the Great American Songbook repertoire to include the music […]
Save The Date: First-Ever Jazz90.1 Used Record Sale Happens October 11
Jazz90.1 is giving YOU the opportunity to own some amazing albums from our music library! We have SO much music here, that we must let some of it go. On […]
Jazz90.1’s Nate Jones Remembers Akiko Tsuruga
“Fond Memories from the 2023 Rochester International Jazz Festival” By: Nate Jones (Host of “Jazz Wavelengths”) It was the last week of June 2023, and thick Canadian wildfire smoke had […]
Is Spotify Napalming The Music Ecosystem?
Update – September 12, 2025 Unfortunately, CD and Vinyl Shipments Are Worse Than Previously UnderstoodMy previous blog post was too sanguine about the possibilities of overseas shipments of CDsand vinyl […]
ARTICLE: Charlotte Zwerin and Ella Fitzgerald: Sweating in the Spotlight
My path to rediscovering the Ella Fitzgerald documentary (Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For) began with an article about Charlotte Zwerin, the documentarian. Zwerin isn’t as well known as the […]
Join Us For Jazz at The Beach This Spring, Summer and Fall
Jazz90.1 WGMC-FM and The Ontario Beach Park Program Committee are pleased to announce seven FREE spring, summer and fall jazz and big band concerts to be held at Tropix Nightclub […]
ARTICLE: Charlotte Zwerin and Ella Fitzgerald: Sweating in the Spotlight
My path to rediscovering the Ella Fitzgerald documentary (Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live For) began with an article about Charlotte Zwerin, the documentarian. Zwerin isn’t as well known as the […]
GM Blog – July 2025
By The Hair on Our Chinny-Chin-Chin! No. We aren’t channeling The Three Little Pigs, but we do use this term to describe the end of our 2024-25 fiscal year. It […]
JazzKids 2025-26 – Week 1 – Darmon Meader
By: Jaclyn Breeze — Darmon Meader is a jazz vocalist, arranger, and saxophonist. He served as the main arranger, composer, musical director, and as a singer in New York Voices, […]
June 2025 Blog Post
‘Ain’t Nothing But a Family Thing With the Rochester Int’l Jazz Fest right around the corner, I can’t help but feel excitement. Sure – I’m excited to see the many […]
ARTICLE: Chuck Mangione Was a Real Mensch: Lewis Porter On His Years at Eastman
You can count on Lewis Porter’s Substack blog to deliver wonderful jazz lore and analysis. A recent two-part post gives us a glimpse inside the Eastman jazz program in the […]
The Dave Koz Radio Show on Jazz90.1
Dave Koz is a multi-award winning musician with nine Grammy nominations under his belt and his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Dave Koz Radio Show […]
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