Bryan S. Wright, Ph.D., is a pianist and musicologist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is presently an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the founder and owner of Rivermont Records, a label specializing in ragtime and jazz.
A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, Bryan first showed musical interest as a toddler and began classical piano lessons with Sandra Horwege at age 5. Violin lessons were added two years later. In his early teens, Bryan became keenly interested in ragtime, jazz, and related styles, adding pieces by Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and others to his repertoire. By 15 he was host of a popular weekly radio program, Sunday Night Nostalgia, heard in C...
as a young boy, Jack Ellsworth began collecting records -with a dream to one day share his favorite music and have his own radio show. After his work as a Marine combat correspondent during WWII, being sought after by MGM for movies and developing friendships with the likes of Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and even Frank Sinatra, Jack decided to pursue his dream of radio.
In 1948, Jack walked into WHIM in Providence, his record collection under one arm, hoping for a job. Fortunately, a smart program director heard Jack's golden voice, noted his amazing knowledge of current music, hired him on the spot and...
Beth has extensive on-air radio DJ and production experience, as well as conducted exclusive interviews with artists such as Keb’ Mo’, The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thornton), Bruce Iglauer (Alligator Records), Mitch Mann (Fiddleworms), David Hood (The Swampers), Jimmy Hughes (“Steal Away”), James Counts (The Midnighters), Paul Thorn, Kenny Neal, Southern Halo, Phil Vassar and so many more. Her “Beth’s Blues Break” segment can be heard worldwide and be on the lookout for a new radio show called “Boppin’ With Beth” coming soon. Beth digs deep to find unique airplay opportunities for each artist....
Sid Mark (born Sidney Mark Fliegelman in 1933/1934)) is an American radio disc jockey based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who hosts weekly syndicated radio programs featuring the music of singer Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), interspaced with commentary, interviews, trivia facts etc. to add color and context.
His Philadelphia-area shows include Sunday with Sinatra, airing Sunday mornings on 1210 WPHT, and The Sounds of Sinatra, which is syndicated nationally through the Westwood One radio network. The first version/iteration, Friday with Frank, began airing in 1957 over WHAT-FM, where Mark was a disc jockey, and has been running continuously ever since. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia i...
Kat Lively was born October 15, 1993 in Denver, Colorado. She is an American Musician, Actress, Artist and Podcast Host. At 3 months old, Kat was adopted by her Paternal Grandmother and Step-Grandfather where she moved from Denver, Colorado to Visalia, California. At the age of 8 she was placed in acting classes by her adoptive Mother, where she regularly performed in local musicals and plays. It was also at this time she began taking choir class and also learning violin in school.Simultaneously she began painting and writing poetry around this time. At the age of 13 she began to play Guitar. She was enrolled in a class in middle school, though later dropped out after learning basic chords, ...
Kooper himself is a man who lives the Cocktail Nation life full-time, wearing vintage attire, living in a penthouse bachelor pad, and driving the 1964 Austin Healey sports car. He hosts Cocktail Nation, an internationally Syndicated radio show across twenty radio stations along with the very popular podcast.This Man's Man, Ladies Man and Man about Town provides the globe with the best in new and vintage Exotica and Lounge music each week plus he talks to the movers and shakers of the lounge and tiki scene.He is a DJ, writer and voiceover artist, known around Sydney town as a hepster always on the lookout for some crazy music. He mostly listens to lounge and exotica and loves the n...
Swing Thing..
‘in the making since Fred first interviewed Helen Forrest back in 1945. Since then he has done hundreds of interviews with the singers, song-writers, sidemen band leaders and arrangers directly involved in the ongoing evolution of that uniquely American musical idiom including it’s many off-shoots and derivitives that we now call Swing. These remarkable shows span the entire gamut of early American music, which includes Swing, early Jazz, and Dixieland.
About Fred – Excerpt from his introduction to Dialogues In Swing
I had grown up with music. A sister played in string quartets, we never missed the NBC Symphony or New York Philharmonic broadcasts and I list...
