Paige Hansen
Midday Jazz HostPaige Hansen has been heard on radio station 88.5 KNKX-FM for over 20 years where she’s hosted news & jazz. You can currently hear her hosting jazz weekdays & Sundays. She is also an active musician, writer and singer. She directs the original jazzy soul pop group Playtonics and sings with the dance band Candy Shoppe. She has been passionate about the performing arts for most of her life and feels it brings healing and health. Follow her (& her bands) on social media for information on upcoming releases and gigs. She lives in the Tacoma area with her husband and sons.
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Hear Cory Wong, master of rhythm guitar, performing with his band in the KNKX studios.
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You got the music – and I have the words! But more than that - it’s a singer-songwriter taking a musical line and singing original lyrics. It’s mutual appreciation of poetry and vocals. Paige Hansen walks us down the ‘vocalese’ road and it's role in jazz as part of KNKX and Jazz24's A History of Jazz project.
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New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz but “America’s music” did some growing up in Kansas City. For Jazz Appreciation Month, Paige Hansen details the differences that made Kansas City jazz stand out.
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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. Debuting before the Great Depression, the swing era brought about big bands, new dances and spotlight solos still enjoyed today.
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A giant in the world of big band music, Sammy Nestico lived a life filled with swing and beyond – and he worked with the biggest stars of the earlier era like Sarah Vaughan to modern rockers like Phil Collins. Paige Hansen has a remembrance.
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Avant-garde and free-jazz saxophonist Sonny Simmons died this year. Paige Hansen says that his weaving and winding music ended up mirroring his topsy-turvy life.
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His obituary said he was “an accidental jazz critic with no formal musical training. His instrument was the typewriter.” Paige Hansen has a remembrance of beloved jazz writer W. Royal Stokes.
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Beloved mandolinist in the folk and jazz community, Peter Ostroushko was heard for years on the popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion. He died in February. Paige Hansen looks back on Ostroushko's life in music.
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His playing influenced Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and no – we’re not talking about a horn player. We’re talking about pianist Ahmad Jamal. Paige…
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When you hear Bill Charlap on piano, you have the sense of someone lost – so lost in the music we may never be able to exist on that mountain with him.…