Jazz Beat

Jazz Beat

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Jazz Beat is a jazz and blues podcast from New England Public Media’s Tom Reney. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.

Recent Episodes

  • Max Roach Interview, 1979

    1 year ago
  • Houston Person

    2 years ago
  • Jazz Beat #59 - Jazz critic Gary Giddins on Sonny Rollins

    3 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 58 - Billy Boy Arnold Part Two

    3 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 57 - Billy Boy Arnold Part One

    3 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 56 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Three

    4 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 55 - Peter Guralnick Interview, Part Two

    4 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 54 - Peter Guralnick

    4 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 53 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Two

    4 years ago
  • Jazz Beat 52 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney Discuss Louis Armstrong, Part One

    4 years ago