Review: Newport Jazz Fest 2014
by Ken Laster, August 2014
This year's Newport Jazz Festival was a very wet affair, but that didn't keep Jazz fans from showing their love and devotion to this art form. Thousands endured the rainy weather t...
Newport Jazz Festival 2014
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The Newport Jazz Festival celebrates its 60'th anniversary and WHUS will be there to report live. The Festival runs from August 1 through August 3 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport Rhode Island. Yo...
NB’s Ripples
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Noah Baerman joins our program to celebrate the release of his new CD Ripples. Noah and I discuss not only the music on this fine recording, but the interaction of music with activism to strive for a bette...
Conversation with Noah Preminger
In the Groove hosted by Ken Laster, interviews jazz artist Noah Preminger prior to his gigs in Connecticut and New York City. We speak of expanding the jazz audience, various influences that shaped Noah’s pla...
Review of Newport Jazz Festival 2013
I have been covering the Newport Jazz Festival for WHUS FM for the last 5 years, and the 2013 festival is one of the best I've had the pleasure to attend.
Musically, the festival covered a wide range of jazz ...
Favorite Jazz releases of 2013
These are my favorite jazz releases of 2013. I hesitate to call this a Best Of list, as one can't possibly claim to have heard all of the jazz releases in this age of independently produced recordings. While se...