Jazz Radio
88.5 KPLU hosts Saturday Jazz Matinee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Ken Wiley’s the Art of Jazz, and Jazz Northwest, in addition to its weekday NPR and late-night and prime-time jazz programs. For KPLU’s full jazz schedule, see kplu.org/schedule.
Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, Sundays, 2pm, features the artists and events of the regional jazz scene. Airing December 7: an SRJO concert celebrating Quincy Jones and Ray Charles. For JazzNW podcasts of archived programs, see jazznw.org.
90.3 KEXP, late-night Sundays, features Jazz Theater with John Gilbreath, 1am, and Sonarchy, midnight, a live-performance broadcast from the Jack Straw Productions studio, produced by Doug Haire. Full schedule information is available at kexp.org and jackstraw.org.
Sonarchy’s December schedule: December 7, Dub Championz, a powerhouse performance from the Pacific Northwest’s finest dub artists; December 14, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, with Wally Shoup (alto sax), Jacob Zimmerman (alto sax), Neil Welch (tenor sax) and Carmen Rothwell (bass); December 21, Eric Ring in a solo piano concert; December 28, Infernal Noise Brigade, a Sonarchy archive show from 2001 bringing drumline, breakbeats, loud hailers, Balkan fanfares, taiko and heavy sound pressure to your next political protest holiday.
91.3 KBCS, late Sundays and prime-time Mondays, features Floatation Device with John Seman and Jonathan Lawson; Straight, No Chaser with David Utevsky; Giant Steps with John Pai. More about jazz on KBCS at kbcs.fm.
94.9 KUOW, Saturdays, 7pm, features Amanda Wilde’s the Swing Years and Beyond, popular music from the 1920s to the 1950s. More at kuow.org/swing_years.php.
Jazz Radio Dropped Syndication
Jazz After Hours, previously aired on 88.5 KPLU, weekends from midnight to 4am, is no longer carried on the air waves in Seattle. Local broadcaster and jazz archivist Jim Wilke hosted the show for 30 years. It’s now hosted by Jeff Hanley and is no longer broadcast by a Seattle-area station. KPLU’s Jazz 24 programming airs instead.
In One Ear News
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