Sunday night on the MCG Jazz Spotlight at 6, we remember the life and career of jazz radio icon Tony Mowod, including memories of Tony from Bill Strickland. Frank Cunimondo, Sean Jones, David Budway, Paul Thompson, Mike Tomaro, Dr. Nelson Harrison, Michele Bensen, Joe Negri, and hosts Renée Govanucci and Marty Ashby. The program also includes excerpts from a 1999 interview of Tony by bassist Dwayne Dolphin (you can hear the whole oral history and see wonderful pictures at this link).
And a never-before broadcast of Tony introducing a 10th Anniversary MCGJazz concert with Roger Humphries, Rufus Reid, Gary Burton, Stanley Turrentine and Dr. Billy Taylor.
At 7pm, a reprise of our special edition of “The Scene,” with music that Tony loved, and sounds of Tony throughout his career, including WYDD, WDUQ and WZUM.
To start the evening off, at 5pm, we look back to the year 2020 and the many talented artists in the jazz community who left our midst in that year gone by. We play sounds from about a dozen of those to remember, including Annie Ross, Ellis Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Jimmy Heath, Bucky Pizzarelli, Johnny Mandel, Jeff Clayton, Frank Kimbrough, Freddy Cole, Jerry Byrd, Wallace Roney, Harold Betters, Richie Cole
An evening of music and remembrance, Sunday from 5-8pm on WZUM
