by Kile Smith | Nov 30, 2015 | Jazz, WRTI Arts Desk
[First published in WRTI’s Arts Desk, 30 Nov 2015.] December 6th is Dave Brubeck’s birthday, and WRTI’s Kile Smith looks at the secret behind the legacy of this giant of jazz. Dave Brubeck may be the most unlikely of jazz pianists. He almost was tossed from...
by Kile Smith | Dec 11, 2012 | American music, Jazz, WRTI
As much as I enjoyed writing about Dave Brubeck here, nothing matches sitting down with WRTI’s own jazz legend, Bob Perkins, to ask him for his thoughts on what Brubeck means to music. What a gentleman Bob is, and in Philadelphia, BP is jazz. Listen to my...
by Kile Smith | Dec 11, 2012 | American music, Jazz, WRTI
[Originally published at wrti.org] https://kilesmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/brubeckmix.mp3 [podcast of this article, with audio samples] In Jailhouse Rock, Elvis plays an ex-con rube hoping to make it in the music business. He’s dragged to a swanky party,...
by Kile Smith | Apr 28, 2012 | CDs, new music, Now is the Time, Radio, WRTI
This Sunday, Apr 29, 10–11 pm. Steven Burke. Nervosa. Dave Brubeck. Strange Meadow Lark. Dave Brubeck. It’s a Raggy Waltz. Philip Koplow. Variations on a Hymn Tune. Patrick Beckman. Stomp. Denman Maroney. I’m Yours. Kile Smith. American Spirituals, Book 1. Eric...
by Kile Smith | Nov 5, 2010 | CDs, new music, WRTI
We started WRTI’s HD2, Sunday night, 10:00 to 11:00 p.m., all-contemporary, all-American show on June 1st, 2008. Program #100 airs next Sunday, November 7th. Hard to believe I’ve done a hundred of these! Folks around the world tune in to hear all types of contemporary...
