JazzKidz Week #30 – Nina Simone
By Jaclyn Breeze — Nina Simone (born Eunice Waymon) was a singer, pianist, and composer, spanning many genres including classical, gospel, jazz, and pop. Her music was often inspired by […]
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JazzKidz Week #29 – Quincy Jones
By Jaclyn Breeze — Quincy Jones was a trumpeter, composer, conductor, producer, and bandleader. Born in Chicago in 1933, he began learning stride piano from his next-door neighbor when he […]
JazzKidz Week #28 – Glenn Miller
By: Jaclyn Breeze — Glenn Miller was an American conductor, arranger, composer, and trombonist in the early 1900s. He was born in 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa, and had one of […]
JazzKidz Week #26 – Son House
By Jaclyn Breeze — Edward James “Son” House Jr. was a blues singer and guitarist. He was born in Lyon, Mississippi in 1902. He was very vocal in his early […]
JazzKidz Week #27 – Ma Rainey
By Jaclyn Breeze — Gertrude Rainey, known as Ma Rainey was a singer born in Georgia in 1886. Called the “Mother of the Blues,” she combined vaudeville (a comedic theater […]
Two on The Aisle Hosted By Dawn Kellogg
Jazz90.1 WGMC-FM is excited to announce that Dawn Kellogg will join the station as its new Broadway host in January. Dawn will step into the stations already successful “Two On […]
JazzKidz Week #25 – Art Blakey
By: Jaclyn Breeze Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and was a full-time musician by the time he was in 7th […]
Jazz90.1 Recognized By The New York State Broadcasters Association
Jazz90.1 WGMC-FM was recognized by The New York State Broadcasters Association with two “Serving New York” awards – one for our work with GRASP (Greece Residents Assisting Stray Pets) promoting […]
JazzKidz Week #24 – Jason Robert Brown
By Jaclyn Breeze — Jason Robert Brown is an American pianist, composer, and playwright born in 1970. After growing up in New York City, he attended the Eastman School of […]
JazzKidz Week #23 – Wynton Marsalis
By: Jaclyn Breeze — Wynton Marsalis is a trumpeter, bandleader, and composer born in 1961 in New Orleans to a family of musicians. He began trumpet at 6 years old […]
ARTICLE: JazzRochester Battles the Pink Robots
JazzRochester Battles the Pink Robots — Curated by North Star Sounds co-host Jon Greenbaum — If you were a jazz-hating pink robot who dropped onto earth with a mission to […]
JazzKidz Week #22 – Louis Armstrong
By Jaclyn Breeze — The cornet is a brass instrument that looks similar to a trumpet but is more mellow and a bit smaller. Trumpets have straight bells, and cornets […]
JazzKidz Week #21 – Miles Davis
The trumpet is a brass instrument. The oldest trumpet dates back to at least 2000 BC when they were used to signal events. They began being used for music later […]
JazzKidz Week #20 – Joshua Redman
By Jaclyn Breeze Joshua Redman is a tenor saxophonist and composer. Born in Berkeley, California in 1969, he began playing saxophone at age 10. He was in music groups throughout […]
JazzKidz Week #19 – Toshiko Akiyoshi
By Jaclyn Breeze – Toshiko Akiyoshi is a pianist and composer born in China to a Japanese family in 1929. When she was a teenager, her family moved back to […]
Remembering Kim Corcoran
We are heartbroken to announce that Jazz90.1 DJ Kim Corcoran has died. She was 69 years old, and passed away on July 26. Kim had been with Jazz90.1 for over […]
Jazz90.1 Receives Largest Equipment Donation In Station’s History
(w/o) Jazz90.1 is pleased to announce the largest donation of equipment in our 50-year history. The station was gifted a new broadcast transmitter by Greece Community Broadcasting Inc. earlier this […]
JazzKidz Week #18 – John Coltrane
By Jaclyn Breeze John Coltrane was a saxophonist and composer born in 1926 in North Carolina and was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. He […]
JazzKidz Week #17 – Samara Joy
By: Jaclyn Breeze Samara Joy was born on November 11th, 1999 in the Castle Hill neighborhood in the Brox, NY. She comes from a family of musicians and attended Fordham […]
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