JSMF PubHc Radio News Radio for People Who Listen

Volume 5 Issue No.4 December 1988

Seattle production facility-are major in JACK STRAW'S scope and will require work and dedication IMM EDIATE PLANS by all of those committed to state-of-art community radio. 1m., The Board of Directors and Management • change this past year has produced a new look for our organization. The Foundation has accomplished the internal, structural VOLUNTEER FOR changes ensuring organization and plan­ RADIO ning for long term goals in an effective manner. The Board has set four specific Right now, production projects are de­ goals to be finalized or on-going in the veloping rapidly as we prepare to go on air current FY 1988-89 budget year. with KSER in Snohomish County. In the • develop a regional radio production stu­ long run, we are also collecting taped ma­ dio at the JSMF headquarters in Seattle terial for national distribution. This means • build a community/educational PM ra­ jobs are opening up for volunteers in all dio station in Snohomish County with phases of radio production at the Jack Straw a scheduled on-air date of June 1989 Memorial Foundation. • continue the JSMF investment endow­ If you want to learn media production ment at the 1988 value and contribute to the public dialogue, and • develop and implement a capital and if you have some free time, talk with us and general fund campaign plan for contri­ consider applying for one of these volun­ butions teer positions: Perhaps more importantly there has oc­ Remote Tape Crew: curred a renewed philosophy and attitude to We'll train you to use our recording equip­ purposefully and actively pursue our mis­ ment, then ask you to take it into the field sion. JSMF's mission has always been to from time to time to record a wide variety provide unique, high quality, innovative of performances, talks and interviews. programming for regional radio access. This Tape Editors: coming year will see that on-going goal Learn the technical side of production, realized in KSER and the Seattle Production while auditioning and editing taped inter­ Facility. views,lectures, panel discussions and per­ The immediate priority is erecting the formances. KSER tower and developing an adjacent Production Coordinators: studio on Highway 99 in Snohomish County. Take charge of a particular area of infor­ Our goal for an on-air date is late spring, mation - music, the visual arts, interna­ 1989. The recruitment of community mem­ tional affairs, science, land use, econom­ bers to serve on an advisory committee and ics, social issues, health and consumer to be volunteer broadcasters is now under­ affairs. Keep abreast of visiting specialists, way. then coordinate between the experts, our The modest, but highly usable, Seattle interviewers and our technical people to production facility is seen as having a three­ schedule interviews. (This job can be done fold function: 1)generating radio produc­ largely at home.) tions by staff and volunteers; 2) a facility Do you have the time and interest in any available to other nonprofit organizations of these volunteer jobs? Do you know and independent radio producers; and 3) as someone else who might be interested? a local and regional training center. KSER-FM Call the Foundation office, 325-5110, and Both of these projects - the erection of 90.7 get involved in the kind of radio you'd like the KSER tower and the utilization of the to hear. JACK STRAW MEMORIAL FOUNDATION BOARD OFFICERS

PRESIDENT'S PRESIDENT Allan Swensson

VICE PRESIDENT MESSAGE Dave Gardner

SECRETARY Kathy Cain

Dear Friends, TREASURER Nick Johnson 1989 will be a special year for us all: after five years, we will finally return to BOARD MEMBERS the air. Most of that time has been taken up in the FCC application process for Mary Coney the Everett channel, but at long last we resume our mission of community Herb Levy broadcasting. Let me remind you of the call letters and frequency: KSER 90.7 Terry Morgan MHz. The primary service area will be Snohomish and North King County, but Simon Ottenberg many of us who live outside that area will be able to receive the signal with an Bob Rose external antenna on our PM radios. I use cheap TV rabbit ears on my set. We Craig Sanders are planning studios and an office at the antenna site on what is locally known as Kathryn Taylor Connie Veldink Gunny Sack Hill, in Lynnwood. As the highest land between Seattle and Mount Vernon, it is an excellent location. EDITOR 1989 will also be a big year for spending money. We project full staffing for Alison S. Beck the new station as well as the substantial start-up costs of construction and new equipment. Long-awaited remodelling at our Seattle studios is also planned, be­ GRAPHIC DESIGN ginning with a new roof. We will be spending some of our capital at last, and the Marie McCaffrey investment income from what remains will not cover the cost of operation, as I wrote in the last newsletter. In that issue, I compared our projected income to the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Carmen Ray budgets of KPLU and KUOW. I inadvertently reversed the figures for the two stations, for which I apologize, and restate them here: $700,000 for KPLU BROADCAST DIRECTOR (Seattle Times, 1/17/88), and $1,250,000 for KUOW (Seattle Times, 11/27/88.) Nancy Keith We now expect to get less than $150,000 a year from our endowment, so like any other community broadcaster, we will need your support. PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Finally, I want to welcome the new people on our board: Herb Levy, Bob DIRECTOR Rose, Craig Sanders, and Connie Veldink. With their infusion of energy and Joan Rabinowitz expertise, I look forward to a productive year at the board level. The list of our PROGRAM STAFF excellent staff and volunteers is also expanding. Jennifer Brandon The Jack Straw Memorial Foundation is growing again. Join us! Doug Haire Tim Leidig Yours, John LoConte Rachel McLain

ADMINISTRA TION J eni Greenlee

"NEW JAZZ NORTHWEST" "JSMF Public Radio News" (USPS 671-470) is published quarterly by the Nol'thWCSI Jazz Musicians: LIVE! JackStraw Memorial Foundation, 2212 South Jackson, Seattle, WA 98144- 2397. Second-class postage paid at Seattle, W A. POSTMASTER: Send Produced by the Jack Straw Memorial Fo undation address changes to JSMF Public Radio with the cooperation of Earshot Jazz and sUPilorL from SAC & WSAG. News, 2212 So. Jackson, Seattle, WA 98144-2397. DO YOU LIKE BEST IN THE MORNING, theNorth Seas Jazz Festival, andhisinter­ GOOD 6-10 A.M.? Send responses to this question national popularity has continued to grow. and comments on good radio to: Broadcast On "New Jazz Northwest" you will hear RADIO Director, Jack Straw Memorial Foundation, the Don Lanphere Quintet playing "Double 2212 S. Jackson, Seattle, WA 98144. Improv," "Midges's Late Valentine," Every week, the phones at the Founda­ NK "What," "Who Wrote this Thing," Trom­ tion ring dozens of times with the same bone/Soprano Ballad, "New U.S. Moon," questions: "Where are you guys? When are and "Infatuation." you coming back on? Give us something "NEW JAZZ Both KAOS (89.3) in Olympia and KBCS interesting to listen to." As we gear up to go (90.3) in Bellevue/Seattle will begin broad­ on the air in Snohomish county next Spring, NORTHWEST" casting "New Jazz Northwest" on Friday, and we keep poking and prodding the Se­ January 6, 1989 for 13 consecutive Fridays. attle PM band for a space to get KSER into We've just fmished production of 13, Air time on KAOS is from 6-7 p.m. and on Seattle, we need to pause and let you know one-hour programs entitled, "New Jazz KBCS from 7-8 p.m. KSVR in Mount that there is some very good radio available Northwest," based on the digital recordings Vernon plans to air it later on in the year. We around town. I've found some and I'm sure that we made of the first two seasons of are negotiating with other non-commercial that many of you have too. So I'd like to use Earshot's "New Jazz New City" concerts. stations around the state expressing an inter­ this space in the newsletter to start some dis­ This exciting new series presents highlights est in broadcasting the series. If you are cussion ofwhat makes good radio and where of performances by over 70 jazz musicians unable to receive KAOS or KBCS, call Joan from Vancouver, B.C. to Portland, Oregon it can be found. and she 'Ulet you know if there's a station in and will give you a taste of what's happening Good local radio? My favorite station your area that is planning to air the series. these days is KBCS, 91.7 PM. I lay me now in Northwest Jazz. Your host for this down to sleep one night recently with KBCS series is long time jazz producer, Nick on the box and a Bulgarian women's chorus Johnson, known to many of you as Captain sang me a lullaby. When they say "jazz" at Baltic of KRAB's Baltic's Song -Stop and KBCS, they don't mean synthesized saxo­ Bop-Stop. phones for elevators. Try KBCS on Wed­ "New Jazz Northwest" will begin with the nesday nights, 7-midnight, for a great se­ music of the Don Lanphere Quintet. lection of mainstream jazz and good infor­ Lanphere, on soprano and tenor sax, is joined mation about the music. KBCS also has a by Jeff Hay, trombone; Marc Seales, piano; solid jazz strip throughout the week from Cary Black, bass; and Dean Hodges, drums. 9:30 a.m to noon. At noon, folk music takes Reed player Lanphere, is one of the grand over. If you're an old KRAB eth'head, old players in Pacific Northwest jazz. Born KBCS is playing beautifully selected inter­ in Wenatchee, Washington, he began alto national music on several shows - Monday sax at the age of twelve. After sitting in with evenings and Saturday afternoons. Jimmy Lunceford while in a high school To my delight, KBCS is also playing old dance band, Lanphere, went through Chi­ radio drama and storytelling, and the latest cago, had sessions with Sonny Stitt, and omniphonic adventures of Tom Lopez's finally in 1948, moved to New York City. ZBS Media, all offered through the week at Once there, he recorded with Fats Navarro, Don Lanphere will be featured with the Don Lanphere 7 p.m. and repeated at 9 a.m. KUOW 94.5 Babs Gonzales and his own quintet before Quintet in the "NEW JAZZ NORTHWEST' series. PM also has a radio drama slot, nightly joining Woody Herman. Working on and off through the week at 10:30. I've heard some with Herman through the 50's, Lanphere "New Jazz Northwest" was produced by wonderful Ducks Breath Radio Theater sat­ retired from the road in 1961, returning to Joan Rabinowitz, Executive Producer; Nick ire there lately. They've just recently begun Wenatchee to run a music store. Since the Johnson, Producer and Host; Doug Haire, airing a reader's theater production of Sin­ mid 70's, he has become active as a player location recordist and post-production engi­ clair Lewis'sBabbit that's full of big name of major stature once again, honing his be­ neer; and John LoConte, production assis­ Hollywood actors. Radio puts a real spot­ bop style and carefully incorporating other tant. Special thanks to Earshot Jazz. "New light on their acting skills. related jazz idioms to create a rare and unique Jazz Northwest" was produced with support Now it's your turn. Let us know about the contemporary sound. from the Seattle Arts Commission, the good programming you've found on the Lanphere has created a sound steeped in Washington State Arts Commission and the local air. How about memorable programs his be-bop roots: lightning quick, articulate National Endowment for the Arts. you've heard elsewhere. Write to us with and clean, but which runs through an ex­ your ideas about what makes good radio. panded range of harmonic and rhythmic Tentative Series Schedule: We'll publish some of your letters here and possibilities. In recent years, he has re­ 1. Don Lanphere Quintet we'U use them as we design programming corded four albums on the HEP label, one of 2. Language Arts with Pax Wallace / KSER. which, "Out of Nowhere," was voted one of Blue Sky For a start, I'd like to hear from you on Europe's ten best records for 1985. That 3. 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(continued from page three) Veldink. The following are briefbiographi­ English/History and Communications from 4. The Rob Thomas Quartet / cal sketches of each new board member: the University of Washington. His commu­ New Art Orchestra Herb Levy currently is the grants ad­ nications study focused on media censor­ 5. The Chuck Metcalf Quintet ministrator at Cornish College of the Arts ship issues. He is currently instructor in 6. Rick Halley Sextet and has also been an instructor there of English and Chair of the Communications 7. The Floyd Standifer Octet / electronic music. Herb received a BA in Department at Bellevue Community Col­ Jay Clayton Trio English Literature from the University of lege. In 1973, he put the campus station, 8. Brief Encounter/ Washington and has taken advanced studies KBCS, on the air and served as station The Alan Youngblood Quintet at both the University of Wisconsin and manager for 13 years, supervising a student 9. Michael Bisio Quartet / Washington. As a community activist in the and volunteer staff. Denny Goodhew Trio performing arts, he has served as a panelist Connie Veldink is a sociology instruc­ 10. Bert Wilson & Rebirth/ and board member of many organizations. tor at Everett Community College. She has Lunar Adventures Bob Rose is a special staff assistant to been an instructor at Oxford University, 11. Randy Halberstadt TrioNoices the Commissioner of Public Lands. He London School of Economics, and the Uni­ 12. The Circular Cowboys earned his M.A. at State University in New versity of Mexico, Mexico City. Her gradu­ 13. The Linda Dowdell Ensemble York. Other positions Bob has held are ate training was at the University of Califor­ college instructor, carpenter, and apprentice nia, Santa Barbara. Connie has also been a NEW BOARD MEMBERS shipwright He has served as chair for many documentary flimmaker. community and advisory groups. He took There are four new faces among the part in poetry programming on KRAB in the JSMF Board of Directors. They are Herb 1970s. ii~~~ ~~ HAPPy I/o ~ Levy, Bob Rose, Craig Sanders and Connie Craig Sanders holds Masters degrees in .~ '(IDI1 Y S

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