Askia Muhammad, Morning Jazz: The programs on WDCU were included along with Paul Anthonys on WGMS. A comprehensive dialogue with Wpfw programmers can be viewed on Dctv on Robyn Holden's Anc and You program as per the following schedule . Maybe youre listening to a local radio broadcast over the air, or maybe youre listening to a station from another city (or country) over the Internet. Photo courtesy of Miyuki Williams. Beer Former volunteer programmer Clinton Yates made the same charge in his column for the Washington Posts Root D.C. website. The proposed changes would have moved Caribbeanawith its mix of Caribbean public affairs talk and music from 7 p.m. Saturday to 10 p.m. Sunday. To Hughes detractors, however, the changes represent a violation of the stations progressive, minority-serving brief: WPFW is supposed to be an alternative to NPR and PRI. //--> Music served a conscious-raising purpose. I feel fortunate that I am still on the air attempting to educate and entertain listeners with the music I first heard on the radio as a kid. Miyuki also answers to Miyuki D Williams, Williams Dmiyuki, D M Willimas, Miyuki Diane Williams and Diane Williams, and perhaps a couple of other names. In the Radio Farrakhan years, the station followed the radical drift of some schools of black nationalism; as the rhetoric became angrier and more violent, Muhammad says, the station pulled backor depending on your viewpoint, became more P.C. What we do in this business goes to your head and your heart. He understands where the outcry comes from, he said. Yorkes profile of Grant focused on his Saturday afternoon show on WRC-AM, mentioning his earlier thirty-year tenure as WMALs nightly jazz authority. . document.getElementById('cloak29915').innerHTML = ''; Isre 19th Century Property With View In Voiron, Auvergne Rhne Alpes So who the hell does want to hear Cornel West on WPFW? document.getElementById('cloak25885').innerHTML += ''+addy_text25885+'<\/a>'; Olympic Sports, Savage Love The 1990s is when I discovered WPFW. Film/TV But Rusty, you will always be the Don of the DC airwaves when it comes to hipness, deep knowledge and broadcast style my friend. Pacificas then-executive director declined to comment on Daughtrys elimination at the time; last week, so did Hughes. var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; The DJ told the caller, If you think you can do a better job, come on in, and Ill teach you.. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say covered traditional jazz, while Since Mintons featured bebop and beyond. Sometime next year, 2390 Champlain St. NW is slated to be demolishedand although Hughes says its close, WPFW still hasnt locked down a new home. A DJ looks back on 50 years on jazz radio in the nation's capital 202-588-0999 ext. Today's Playlist But the on-air relationship and the stories were made up. Yes, we need to stay true to our ethos. Membership Department All inquiries regarding your membership (pledge gifts, tax statements, membership status) please email membership@wpfw.org. Denise was a real person; Wash introduced me to her at a WPFW fundraiser at the Panorama Room in Southeast. they can be deemed national treasures. Cream, Were Going Wrong, Jim Dombrouski, Morning Jazz: Miyuki Williams, one of the stations more prolific fundraisers, said last weekend on her Sunday Kind of Love program that while she was grateful for the extra hour she now has each week, she wished it hadnt been at the expense of some of the stations Sunday-night Latin music programming. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. He is currently a professor at American University. Jerry Washingon, better known as "The Bama" was on the air. We became close friends, and I enjoyed his stories about hanging out at the stage door of the Howard Theatre with his childhood friend Nap Turner in order to see Charlie Parker, or about the time he spent on Rikers Island incarcerated with Ike Quebec. Hughes looked haggard as he stepped out of the studioweathered, unshaven. DJ Beloved, Reggie Steele, Aaron K. Gray. Students at Howard University struck for the inclusion of Black Studies in the Eurocentric curriculum and jazz in the music program, where Donald Byrd would become its first director. We don't have one. Theyve seen the managers come and the managers go, and theyre still here. Also, Miyuki will be talking with trombonist Craig Harris about the upcoming Baraka celebration. Jazzing up the Radio: Maintaining Tradition | District of Columbia Other programs that had been cut were offered their old slotspartially quelling the programming outrage. I still listen to Mr. WPFW News Celebrating the Life of Harry Belafonte The legendary performer and human rights champion Harry Belafonte joined the ancestors on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the age of 96. One Saturday afternoon he could not make it to the station and Jerry Washington had to do the show on his own. And the aforementioned Nina Simone, she said, was an immense pianist, [who,] thwarted in her dreams of becoming a classical pianist because of racism, perseveres and pushes through. I also interviewed New York saxophonist Noah Howard, who had come to Washington for a performance at the New Thing that didnt work out. Hughes, who is 61, has insisted in interviews and on the air that his proposed changes arent just in keeping with the stations progressive, alternative ethos; theyre about rescuing it. I grew up hearing Julie Andrews sing My Favorite Things, and singing it [myself] in choir. We are here to serve underserved communities.. Like Washington City Paper, which also has its office in the building, the stations lease is up at the end of December. Greg Sashi Kearse (former jazz columnist at Howard University, Afro-American Newspaper), Hi Greg, sorry that we didnt previously provide a link. She added that I would start the same weekend as Felix Grant, who would be hosting a show on Saturdays. Music She was an incredible artist who was incited to become an activist because of the killing of four little girls in a Birmingham churchShe sacrificed for the greater good.. First, theres tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane. READ on for inf. I dont see any intelligent reasons behind why these decisions are being made. A few heads nodded in agreement. We also mail copies to subscribers throughout the United States. The FCC ruled that commercial stations could not simulcast all of its programming on both AM and FM. Now, a faction of supporters is petitioning Pacifica to fire Hughes, who must implement his changes, move the station, win back the confidence of his volunteer and paid staffs, and convince listeners that WPFW deserves their money, even though no ones sure what the stations schedule will look like in a few weeks. This email address is being protected from spambots. A lot of creative people, a lot of ideas, a lot of churning.. document.getElementById('cloak9275').innerHTML += '' + addy9275+'<\/a>'; Throughout the week after Thanksgiving, Winter and other programmers at WPFW, the Districts progressive talk and jazz station at 89.3 FM, learned their shows had been changed, rescheduled, or canceled with little notice.