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HD radio consumer report GLT HD3 highlights Staff gift ideas GLT Jazz Host Laura Kennedy amazing writer, arranger, big band leader and bassist, was the first person who shook recommended Sara Gazarek as the 2009 me and said, "You have absolutely nothing to be scared of or ashamed of. Everybody GLT Jazz Master. Though young in both has their own path and as long as you're doing your homework to keep learning and age and years working as a jazz singer, keep growing, and keep bringing your music to the highest level that it can be, you Gazarek has impressed the rest of the GLT really have nothing to be ashamed of." staff as one of the elite performers in jazz ASTERS today. When you see her live, we think LK: You make some interesting choices of songs to perform. One favorite here at GLT is you'll agree that she has already earned the your rendition of Blackbird/Bye-Bye Blackbird. How do you choose your material? moniker. SG: For me a song has to have a sentimental value or I have to be really inspired Laura Kennedy: You grew up in Seattle. What sort of impact did the city have on and moved by the lyrics. With Blackbird my band and I thought it would be kind of your musical growth? tongue-in-cheek to put both songs together. We put a lot of heart and soul into that arrangement. Sara Gazarek: For some reason - I think it's something in the water - Seattle has an amazing high school jazz program. The educators are all involved in the LK: An interesting thing about your music is that it's constantly evolving. You don't Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and are incredibly passionate about it. They're just arrange a tune and then say "Okay, that's it - it's perfect" and never change geared towards giving kids a lot of different opportunities to perform and see other another note. artists perform, plus have educational experiences outside the classroom. I went to Roosevelt High School to focus on theatre, but was kind of taken under the wing SG: We've been doing many of the songs for three years now. If we do them three of the jazz instructor, Scott Brown. He's just so passionate about jazz and passing on or four times a week, it's going to get stale really fast. I've always told my band that the "gospel". When we would learn a song, we wouldn't just get up on stage in our we have the freedom to change up the arrangement on stage so long as the musical sequined outfits and perform it; we would learn the history of the song, who wrote choices we're making are better than tl1e ones decided upon previously. When it, we would learn different solos to the songs and people would write different audiences come to the show, it's always something fresh. words to those solos. He really afforded us the opportunity to understand a piece of LK: So give us a preview of what you're going to do at the GLT 2009 Jazz music. In looking back I think it's pretty neat that I knew who Bird was! Masters concert. LK: It's great that we have people like Scott Brown to reach students like you SG: I tl1ink it'll be 80% jazz standards arranged in a fresh way, probably 10% because you really weren't into jazz before high school. American contemporary standards, and 10 % original compositions. Our sets are SG: I had a pretty warped view of what jazz was, like most kids my age. When I very jazz standard heavy, but we're all under 30 and can't deny that we have finally found out the beauty and the improvisational nature and the freedom in jazz, other influences. It's going to be very musical and exciting and we hope to see I was just really excited and inspired. When we do clinics in schools now, I think everybody there. a lot of kids are just shocked at how cool jazz is. [Sara will present an afternoon On pgs 8-9, Gazarek reviews some of the CDs that th Masterclass on February 7 • Class is free and open to all. Details at wglt.org.] have influenced her, and Laura reviews Sara's LK: You won Best Collegiate Vocalist in the Downbeat Student Music Awards in two CDs. 2003 and then right out of the chute, right out of college you've done exceedingly well. Has all this success corning to you at an early age made you at all nervous? sponsored by: SG: A couple of important people in my life growing up made it seem like a Dunbar, Breitweiser bad thing to have success at an early age. So, I was initially scared when I was & COMPANY, LLP approached by major labels. A dear friend of mine, John Clayton, who is an All Songs Considered Bloomington Native by GLT Program Director Mike McCurdy Helps GLT Listeners GLT HD3 News & Ideas isn't all talk. t" You also hear a little music and some by GLT News Director Willis Kern from WBUR Boston and NPR talk about music with the show All Songs Considered. It debuted after Many of you have already discovered On Point, one of the NPR news and NPR received countless letters from information programs we've added to the schedule every weekday morning listeners who wanted to know more and evening on GLT HD3 News & Ideas. On Point is a two-hour hybrid of talk about the music played between program and news magazine that puts each day's news into context and provides stories on NPR's evening news a lively forum for discussion and debate. Host Tom Ashbrook, born and raised in program, All Things Considered®. Bloomington, unites distinct and provocative voices with passionate discussion All Songs Considered was born in as he confronts the stories that are at the center of what is important in the 2000 as an online show. world today. "It was obvious to me that listeners On Point digs past the surface into the core of a subject, exposing each of its real of NPR were also lovers of music," world implications. Each hour of the broadcast opens with a news brief analyzing says host Bob Boilen. "But what also became obvious was that the web was going the day's biggest stories, followed by an in-depth conversation decoding a single to be the place to discover new music and that we wanted to be the premier site topic with newsmakers, thinkers, and callers, and closes with compelling personal for music discovery." reactions to news and important issues, including radio diaries, excerpts from All Songs Considered is your guide to discovering new music below the radar. Every speeches, or special series segments. News analyst Jack Beatty, Senior Editor week, Boilen and producer Robin Hilton go through hundreds of new CDs to find at The Atlantic Monthly, also guides the program by providing his own unique sneak previews of music worth getting excited about. perspective to the conversation. Recent On Point topics have ranged from the increase in inflation, to the horrors of rape as told by a victim. Sometimes artists or critics stop by All Songs Considered with their top picks. Online or on the air, the show is now a destination for artists such as Lily Allen or Bright Ashbrook is the son of Dave and Norma Eyes to spin their favorite tunes, or musicians such as Wilco, Bjork, Sigur Ros or Ashbrook of Bloomington. Raised on a McLean Ben Gibbard to webcast their live concerts. In one recent week, the show featured County farm, Tom attended Yale University music of indie-rock-meets-chamber-string band, Ra Ra Riot, and a sneak preview of and worked as a surveyor and dynamiter in the new, mesmerizing album from Argentinean singer Juana Molina. It's the perfect Alaska's oil fields before becoming a foreign show when you want to stay current, but don't have the time to listen to everything correspondent. He spent time in Asia before online. landing at the Boston Globe where he directed coverage of the end of the Cold War and the On GLT HD3 News & Ideas, you can hear the show three times every weekend. Gulf War. Ashbrook was a Nieman Fellow at Listen at 11 pm on Saturday, 3 pm on Sunday and 3 am Monday morning. Harvard University and is autl1or of the book The Leap where he chronicled his four-year Boilen not only loves presenting music ... he also writes it. He composed the plunge into Internet entrepreneurship. original theme for NPR's Talk of the Nation®, which you can hear Monday through Friday on HD3. (See pg 21 for the GLT HD3 schedule.) Listen to On Point weekday mornings at 9 am and weeknights at 10 pm on GLT HD3 News & Ideas.