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The Brown Bag Concerts are produced by 90.5 WICN & Mechanics Hall. Brown Bag Spring 2025 Concert Series Wednesdays at Noon, March 12th, 19th & 26th Free Admission Mechanics Hall 321 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01608; 508-752-5608 Broadcast live on WICN 90.5 FM and streaming at wicn.org For over 35 years, Mechanics Hall and WICN […]
Close friendships between jazz musicians don’t always translate to a combination that creates a chemistry and bond, professionally and personally. Yet in the case of David “Fathead” Newman and R&B giant and bandleader Ray Charles, their friendship connected them to a decade-long musical relationship from which the most seminal work of Charles’s career was recorded. Both […]
by Tom Lucci, Host, Standard Time, Mondays 3-6pm and WICN Board Member Nearly 500 enthusiastic jazz fans gathered at Jazz Congress 2025 on January 8 and 9 at the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex overlooking New York’s Central Park. Among them were yours truly, WICN Standard Time host Tom Lucci and Image Archivist Kofi Poku, […]
December 1, 2023: Evening Sky Band November 17th, 2023: Blueprint Jazz Club October 6th, 2023: Ricky Kole September 14th, 2023: Nick Noble’s 800th Show August 4th, 2023: Organ Fairchild July 14th, 2023 – Moshi Music A sound experience formed by 4 wanderers searching for peace through music. Formed in the basements of Boston, Moshi dives […]
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Melba Liston, a self-taught trombonist, arranger, and composer, represented one of the first mainstream gender breakthroughs in the 1940s after she stepped onstage with legendary bandleaders like Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie. As a female jazz musician, Liston would face the inherent challenges of a male-dominated stage and recording industry in the genre. The “on-the-road” […]
I have to confess, I don’t much listen to music on the radio anymore, which might seem odd for someone who most professionally identifies as a music journalist, but there you are. I have a short commute to work, wherein I usually listen to NPR or a local community radio channel, and if I have […]
Once a month WICN Public Radio hosts a concert focused on Emerging Artists from across the jazz landscape with two hours of fresh Jazz+ music. These live performances can be found in a myriad of shows. From The Blend to Colors of Jazz to Bluegrass Junction, and more. We will feature music from emerging artists […]
WICN Hosts: 2024 Best-Of Lists Tom Nutile’s Top 12: As a lifelong reader of jazz magazines, who notes with interest their top ten lists, their five-star reviews, and who pays attention to the JazzWeek charts when planning my weekly Standard Time show on WICN, I have come to realize that all these lists mean… very […]