2012 Jazz Appreciation Month

WBGO Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with
the WBGO Jazz Appreciation Month Student Broadcast Festival

Live In-Studio Performances Showcase Youth Jazz Ensembles

WBGO will once again bring bright, new jazz talent to its airwaves with the annual student jazz ensemble live broadcast event, WBGO's Jazz Appreciation Month Student Broadcast Festival.

The series will air throughout the month on weekdays from 2-3pm in the afternoon, and feature ...some of the area's best student jazz ensembles both live from the WBGO Performance Studio as well as recently recorded on location.

WBGO listeners will get a glimpse into the future, as these students of today are on their way to becoming the jazz legends of tomorrow. WBGO's Vice President of Programming and Production, Thurston Briscoe, said "There are a number of jazz musicians known to all of us who came out of, or are teaching in one of these schools." Briscoe joins forces each year with Martin Mueller, Executive Director at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music to build this student broadcast festival.

Produced with support from Berklee College of Music Summer Programs.

WBGO will broadcast these live, in-studio performances on the following days:

• Monday, April 9 : New Jersey City University (sextet)

• Tuesday, April 10 : Julliard Jazz Ensemble

• Wednesday, April 11 : Manhattan School of Music

• Friday, April 13 : New York University – Wayne Shorter ensemble - (Public Radio music Month Jazz Day showcase)

• Monday, April 16 : Berklee College of Music's Berklee Global Jazz Institute

• Tuesday, April 17 : SUNY Purchase

• Wednesday, April 18 : William Paterson University

• Thursday, April 19 : LaGuardia High School Big Band

• Monday, April 23 : The New School