Mary McCann
Jazz HostMary McCann is a poet and performer and madly in love with music. She?s written three one woman shows and had her poetry published by Arizona State University. Broadcast radio was her life from age 17 on. In 1999 she had a pioneering role in Internet radio during the dot com boom in Silicon Valley. Mary is currently the World Music Director at AOL Internet radio and one of the narrators for BirdNote. She started at KNKX in June of 2008 as the host of the Saturday Jazz Matinee.
Her most memorable KNKX moment was my first fund drive: "It was a thrill to talk to people about shared values through music. It still is, every time I take the mic."
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A project of Jazz Appreciation Month, the KNKX and Jazz24 music teams are walking through the history, the decades and the innovators of jazz. In this first installment, Mary McCann goes back to the beginning with early jazz and Dixieland. -
Pianist Chick Corea was involved with and influenced everyone in his sphere. Chick was there with that pick and shovel when the artists were entering groundbreaking mode. Armando Anthony Corea flourished under this kind of pressure. Mary McCann has a tribute.
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In honor of Black History Month, we are taking a look into the career highlights of African American artists and their contribution to the world of jazz…
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Blues guitarist and vocalist Elvin Bishop recently stopped by the KPLU performance studios and, as is usual with an Elvin Bishop show, a good time was had…
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Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and New Orleans native Terence Blanchard and his sextet stopped by the KPLU Seattle studios for a performance and interview…
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During the 1960s there was a golden age of soul music in America. Some of the greatest songs from that era came from the Stax Recording Studio in Memphis,…
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On a tour to promote their first collaboration, Crossing The Imaginary Divide, Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio stopped by the KPLU Seattle studios…
