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"The Living Is Easy" -- and It Really Swings: We're Offering a "Summer" Theme on All This Jazz

Tune in for the next All This Jazz, beginning at 9pm on Saturday the 2nd, right here on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS-FM...and online by way of "live stream" at PublicRadioTulsa.org. Our program delivers three hours of modern jazz -- across a wonderfully wide range of styles -- each and every Saturday night, from 9 o'clock till midnight. (We also offer a 7pm re-airing of ATJ on Sunday evenings, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is Public Radio Tulsa's all-jazz HD Radio channel.) From Art Farmer to Duke Ellington, Art Taylor to Duke Jordan, and Art Blakey to Duke Pearson, All This Jazz is delighted by modern (and post-modern!) jazz in its many forms, and we dig sharing the same with our listeners.... And in the theme-driven, 11-to-midnight hour of our forthcoming program -- as we celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend -- our theme will be Summer Tunes. Thus we'll hear classic themes like “Summertime” (from Porgy and Bess) and “Summer Night” (a pop standard dating back to the 1930s) as well as more recent tracks such as “Summer Dance” (from wunderkind violinist Zach Brock) and “Summer in Central Park” (a lilting 1972 gem from the great Horace Silver). And elsewhere in our show, we'll dig the music of (among others) Marshall Gilkes, Abdullah Ibrahim, George Coleman, and Mark Murphy.... Join us! If you're a jazz fan, then you've come to the right place. (Two final points: ATJ playlist data can be found...if you scroll down a bit...right here. And we also maintain a Facebook page for our show. Thank you.)

Scott Gregory started working at Public Radio Tulsa in 2006; he started listening to public radio circa 1980, when he and NPR both marked their tenth birthdays (although only one of them commemorated the occasion with a party at Skate World). Scott became this radio station's Operations Director in the summer of 2023; he also hosts and programs All This Jazz, which airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5-1 from 9pm till midnight.