Soccer Although the organization folded, I kept the title of The New Thing Root Music Show through the seventies. Lamont's Entertainment Complex 4400 Livingston Rd Indian Head, MD 20640. The people who have been here the longestthe Von Martins and the Tom Coleshave never been in the management. The series is created in partnership with the Radio Preservation Task Force, an initiative of the Library of Congress. I first met him when he was playing bass with Julie Moore Turner in a club at Fourteenth and Rhode Island Avenue, NW, when it was a rough neighborhood. Another programmer on the station was a Georgetown student named Ken Steiner, who got hooked on jazz while attending a Duke Ellington concert on campus and later became an Ellington scholar. they can be deemed national treasures. Membership Department All inquiries regarding your membership (pledge gifts, tax statements, membership status) please email membership@wpfw.org. You tune into WAMU, or WTOP, or WOL, or WNEW for news on your morning drive. Photo courtesy of Miyuki Williams. // I dont remember the exact date of my first broadcast. Also, Miyuki will be talking with trombonist Craig Harris about the upcoming Baraka celebration. Even if the listeners and programmers of WPFW beat back Hughes proposed changes, how long can the magic reasonably last? Other programs that had been cut were offered their old slotspartially quelling the programming outrage. In 2002, while acting as general manager at Pacificas WBAI in New York, Daughtry was axed during a foundation board meeting broadcast on all five stations; he sued Pacifica and settled. Olympic Sports, Savage Love I interviewed Albert Murray. But even then, because fundraising covered only a fraction of the costs and Pacificas bylaws wouldnt let stations accept any kind of corporate underwriting, the foundation footed some of the bill for years. WPFWs deficit is small enoughbetween $150,000 and $200,000, Hughes saysthat its easy to imagine a few sponsors making up the difference. Focus on the silver lining., After a momentary pause, she said, Look for the Silver Lining by [jazz trumpeter-vocalist] Chet Baker. We are 89.3 in Washington, DC. It was probably in January 1966, the beginning of second semester of my junior year. The reshuffled programming grid, the volunteer hosts slowly learned, would largely separate nighttime music shows during the week from daytime talk programmingmuch of it syndicated from other stations around the country. Certainly, those are among the underserved communities Hughes was talking about. The weekly cumulative listenership climbed into the low six figures in the early 1980s. One afternoon during my junior year I was drinking beer with friends when I noticed another student holding some jazz albums. In the early years Bamberger had five hours to explore early jazz, with an hour of Duke Ellington to start. What a tremendously delicious jazz anthology. Reese flew to D.C. this week to attend a WPFW community meeting that drew around 200 people, as well as talk with the stations staff and board. There were the commentaries of Communist activist Dorothy Healey; the feminist and lesbian program Sophies Parlor; analysis from pro-ayatollah Iranian-Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis. Ill play that record., #Bob Levey Mumble Sauce, About Us Jerry Washington would mix in philosophical and political commentary, discussions about what went down at the barbershop, and laments about fights he had with his girlfriend, Denise. //