@miyuki_williams . (She later received a one-week suspension for saying the URL of a site, thepeople4pfw.wordpress.com, about the current controversy, in violation of the Local Station Boards election rules. BACK TO ME (ABICAH SOUL REHASH) Back To Me. A couple of factors changed this. Gloria Minnot (sp) was one of my favorite programmers. In 1983, just short of his thirtieth anniversary, the station dropped him permanently. 91106. The station broadcast performances from the university auditorium, including the annual battle among the bands of Howard University, University of Maryland, and the University of the District of Columbia. Hopefully well meet again, but that may not be the case. My show was shifted from Monday evening to late Thursday night. Music served a conscious-raising purpose. Which is a shameespecially when you want to hear, say, world-class jazz presented with a D.C. sensibility and you realize, now that WAMU only plays trad jazz on Saturday nights and the genres real estate on WPFW is shrinking, you cant always find it. Mwiza Munthali 49. W. Royal Stokes, a freelance writer for the Washington Post, had two shows. You can buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/DC-Jazz-Stories-Music-Washington/dp/1626165890. I grew up hearing Julie Andrews sing My Favorite Things, and singing it [myself] in choir. Later that year, Sgt. He passed the hipness test and we talked about the music. Email: shepperd@cua.edu, Chicanas who stepped up to the microphone for the first time were not only hearing their own voices audibly broadcasted over public airwaves, they also were announcing the arrival of a sonically distinct Chicana public sphere.. wpfw wpfw 89.3fm-pacifica radio "wpfw the kulcha shak wpfw-fm business matters with andy shallal Wpfw Global Presence Search All Employees Key Employees of Wpfw Askia Muhammad News Director Phone Email Ma Minott Hughes vision for WPFW, as embodied by his proposed new grid, retains plenty of the stations eccentric programming, and despite its faults, it makes tuning in much simpler: Theres talk during the day and jazz at night. var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; Local Dining Guide, City Lights Suggestions by WPFW programmers to allow limited underwritingseveral people I interviewed dream of Bens Chili Bowl sponsorshiphave almost always been rebuffed. We know that Miyuki is single at this point. The station officially went on the air in February 1977not with the traditional Star-Spangled Banner, but with Duke Ellingtons Take the A-Train.. var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; Democracy Now! I agree. Spirits Known and Unknown continued with its workshop concept for young African American announcers, and in 1980 Hot Jazz Saturday Night, with Rob Bamberger, premiered and is still on the air today. Since I knew him before he went on the air, I wondered when he broke up with his wife. Current. He and my father-in-law, Tom Barrett, shared a close friendship with John Malachi. National Public Radio also played a major role in getting jazz on the Washington airwaves. A recent radio show on WPFW began with a quote from Shakespeare's. I was also working at WRC/NBC TV and sometimes WMAL-AM during those hours so I had many guest hosts sit in the air chair and spin their faves for that diverse listening audience including; Vincent Thomas, Wayne Tucker, Kahlil Wheaton and Sheila Eldridge from WHUR-FM, Art Cromwell, Tom Porter, Chip Donelson and sometimes Mr Black Fire Jimmy Gray. Required fields are marked *. var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; document.getElementById('cloak9275').innerHTML += '' + addy9275+'<\/a>'; 360, This email address is being protected from spambots. The people who have been here the longestthe Von Martins and the Tom Coleshave never been in the management. Some of the music was headier and harder than the handful of other local jazz stations. District Line Daily: Our news, politics, arts, food, and sports coverage in one email every weekday. Freelancers Guide He eventually returned to WPFW, where he'd been a programmer and a staffer beginning in the 1980s, and eventually became interim programming director. Neither of these NPR affiliates broadcast jazz offerings from the network such as Piano Jazz or JazzSet. WGTB evolved into a free-form underground rock station while maintaining much of its jazz programming. For three days, WPFW was off the air. Those additions wont be implemented, listeners learned later in the week, until the station has moved. At Georgetown, meanwhile, WGTB was featuring a womens collective called Sophies Parlor and health advice from the Washington Free Clinic. addy9275 = addy9275 + 'wpfw' + '.' + 'org'; We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation. 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 thinks he knows the way to WPFWs future. All inquiries regarding your membership (pledge gifts, tax statements, membership status) please email. var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; The show is now three hours. One of the things I appreciate is how the Japanese revere elders and artists. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. But he insists hes been listening to the communitys feedback. How Dangerous Is Getting Shot in the Shoulder? This comprehensive, searchable directory covers The program was hosted, as it has been for the past 36 years, by longtime D.C. resident Miyuki Williams. 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. Saxophonist Byron Morris had a program named after Rahsaan Roland Kirks Bright Moments. Tom Cole started a Sunday morning show focusing on guitar music called G-Strings that is still on the air today. In the early years Bamberger had five hours to explore early jazz, with an hour of Duke Ellington to start. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. //-->, This email address is being protected from spambots. Philip Pannell Collapsed at a Statehood Rally. Baseball document.getElementById('cloak39617').innerHTML += ''+addy_text39617+'<\/a>'; You need JavaScript enabled to view it. For the stations audience, some of WPFWs personalities became legendary: There was Martin, whose Caribbean programa hybrid of news and musicled the way for a diverse lineup of Haitian, Jamaican, Afrobeat, and Latin shows. The presence of people of color does not necessarily mean the presence of the proper ideological or philosophical perspective. Porters confederates took to the air, opening up the phone lines to supporters. But changes with programmers and talk shows started changing at PFW in a way that was confusing to many listeners. Housing Complex Food News He made me understand improvisation and appreciate it. 360 Development Director 202-588-0999 ext. Focus on the silver lining., After a momentary pause, she said, Look for the Silver Lining by [jazz trumpeter-vocalist] Chet Baker. Washington, are you serious? You need to roll [the programing changes] back quick, fast, and in a hurrysay Look, no one was consulted, say This was done in secrecy, was nontransparent, and we want this to stop right now. Young & Hungry var addy_text39617 = 'news' + '@' + 'wpfw' + '.' + 'org'; Certainly, those are among the underserved communities Hughes was talking about. The jazz aficionado hosts "A Sunday Kind of Love" at noon on Sundays on WPFW 89.3 FM. WPFW has seen a corresponding drop in fundraising, Hughes says, leading to several years of offandon six-figure deficits on its operating budget of $1.6 to $1.8 million. //