The remarkable career of RI jazz singer Carol Sloane
In her distinguished career, she toured the world and sang with some of the greatest jazz musicians on the planet.
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Shaker: In memory of Rhode Island's Carol Sloan
All Rhode Islanders should note the recent passing of jazz great and Smithfield’s own Carol Sloan. She was considered a “pure” jazz voice with an amazing pitch. Her creativity with
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Five Questions With… Tom Shaker – 90.5 WICN Public Radio
Written by Emily Morrow on April 19, 2021 What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air? About 15 years ago, when I was the chair of the Communications Program at Dean College, I went out to WICN to look for internship opportunities for my students. I ended up talking to the PD about music and got one myself. This has to be the longest internship in radio history! What is your favorite WICN memory? One Monday night I got a call that a longtime listener of the show wanted to drop something off for me.
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Five Questions with…Tom Lucci – 90.5 WICN Public Radio
Written by Emily Morrow on April 5, 2021 What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air? I’m a lifelong lover of radio and always imagined myself putting together playlists and spinning tracks. In college (1969-73), I had a prime-time (i.e. 10 PM – 2 AM) “progressive music” show on WESU, 88.1 on your dial from Middletown CT, on which I played a lot of jazz, and was Program Director my senior year. Much as I loved radio, I realized there was no way I’d ever make a living at it. Fast-forward about 40 years; I had been on W...
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Sunday news shows in R.I., Jan. 24, 2021
Sunday news shows in R.I., Jan. 24, 2021 The Providence Journal Newsmakers (5:30 a.m., Ch. 12; 10 a.m., Ch. 64; 7 p.m., Ch. 64.2) Tim White, Ted Nesi and Eli Sherman break down the latest on the vaccine rollout in Rhode Island; U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., discusses President Joe Biden’s inauguration and when Gov. Gina Raimondo might be confirmed as commerce secretary. In the Arena (7 a.m., Ch. 6) Frank Picozzi, the newly elected Mayor of Warwick, joins Joe Paolino Jr. to discuss his grassroots campaign that led him to victory over an established Democratic candidate, and his top pr...
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