Nov 7
"Shaft"Turns 40
Language Universal Founder Jack Marchbanks co-hosts
a weekly jazz program entitled Jazz Sunday on 90.5-FM
WCBE Columbus, Central Ohio's "most listened to public radio
station." To note the fortieth anniversary of the late Isaac
Hayes's remarkable accomplishment of writing, performing and producing
the Grammy-award winning and Academy Award-winning soundtrack for
the Gordon Parks-directed movie, Shaft, Jack and Jazz
Sunday host K.C. Jones interviewed Patricia Lewis, leader of Isaac
Hayes's back-up vocal group, Hot, Buttered Soul. Ms. Lewis is a Facebook
friend of Language Universal Co-Founder SIDney Howard, who put her
in contact with Jack for this informative Autumn 2011 interview. Listen
now.
Used by permission of 90.5-FM WCBE Columbus ©2011
Sept 5
The 32nd Annual Detroit Jazz Festival
If it's the Labor Day Weekend, you know where Jack Marchbanks and his better half, Alice Flowers, most likely are: The Detroit Jazz Festival. For the fifth consecutive year, Jack covered this largest free jazz festival in the world for his hometown NPR affiliate, 90.5-FM WCBE Columbus. And, although a nasty thunderstorm forced the cancelation of the Saturday evening concerts on September 3rd, the 2011 edition of Detroit Jazz Festival, or "DJF" as it is affectionately called by Motor City jazz fans, was still a solid success.
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Sept 3
Aaron Diehl Takes Detroit Jazz Festival by Storm
Well, after the storm, actually. A powerful thunderstorm blew through the Detroit Jazz Festival (DJF) Saturday evening, September 3rd, with stinging airborne gravel and horizontal rain propelled by 60 mile per hour winds.
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May 15
Rock Hall's 2011 Spring Benefit
The women indeed rocked at The 2011 edition of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum's annual "It's Only Rock and Roll" Spring Benefit fundraiser.
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Sep 3
The 31st Detroit International Jazz Festival
WCBE’s (90.5-FM Columbus, Ohio) “jazz ambassadors” represented the station
well at the 2010 Detroit International Jazz Festival. Happily continuing my
tradition of covering the event “live” since "Jazz Sunday" host "K.C.
Jones" tabbed me as a co-host in 2007, I took in three full days of
the three and one-half day jazz spectacular, reporting by telephone to Jazz Sunday
guest host *Wayne Self* on Sunday, of course, September 5th.
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May 24
It's Only Rock and Roll: The Rock Hall's Party With A Purpose
If you enjoy
multi-generational musical mash-ups, you owe it to yourself to
attend the next "It's Only Rock and Roll" Benefit for the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. It's a grand party with a
great purpose. Rock Hall of Fame member musicians and potential
future inductees deliver inspired live performances, trying to
outdo each other and, if they are not yet inductees, trying mightily
to impress the Rock Hall board members in attendance.
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Jan 23
NEA 2010 Jazz Masters Ceremony & Concert: Greats Glow In Gotham
If great music is light, and in a way, it is illumination
to the soul, then the sumptuous sounds emanating from
the Lincoln Center on Tuesday evening, January 12th
beamed a beacon into the heavens brighter than all the
combined marquees in Manhattan.
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Nov 8
HEAR RODNEY HOSKINS
Interviewed by
Jack Marchbanks at KCRW in Santa Monica
Hear Rodney Hoskins iinterviewed by Jack Marchbanks at KCRW in Santa
Monica, CA.
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