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WDCB and their Jazz Thursdays

by balaspa on July 17th, 2008

Every week I rave about Chicago radio station WDCB and what they do. I can’t help myself. Here in Chicago, our options are very limited when it comes to listening to jazz on the radio. At one time the local NPR outlet, during the nighttime hours, used to broadcast classic jazz music. Then someone decided that they should do other things and jazz fans lost a major outlet. Fortunately, this has been a major boon to humble College of DuPage, publicly-funded, suburban radio station WDCB.

They do a program just known as “All Things Jazz” and it runs all day long. In the evenings and on weekends, they break the all-jazz format and do news and community affairs programming. Granted, I would prefer a 24-hour all jazz radio station, but I don’t have to run a radio station on a college campus and that’s community funded. If anyone would like to front me a ton of money I’d love to start an all classic jazz radio station (you could even do that on AM since so many of those original jazz albums were recorded in mono) here in this town.

But I digress…

They do a lot to promote jazz and the exist entirely by donations and subscriptions from people like you and me. It’s pretty cool. It is a small price to pay for a few membership drives just to hear the British morning DJ who refers to himself as “Your British-American Buddy.” See, the entire station just oozes cool.

They also do and sponsor a lot of shows and it is all out in the suburbs. That means that you Chicago suburb-dwellers can enjoy great jazz just as much as those of you who live downtown. One of the things they sponsor is the WDCB JAZZ THURSDAYS which go all summer long.

From their website, here is information about those Jazz Thursdays for summer of 2008:

WDCB Jazz Thursdays

WDCB presents Jazz Thursdays (most) Thursdays from 7 to 10 p.m. at Adelle’s in Wheaton. No cover!

Upcoming Schedule
Thurs. July 03: Marcus Jefferson/Scott Lies Duo
Thurs. July 10: Paul Abella Trio
Thurs. July 17: Andy Meacham Duo
Thurs. July 24: Chris Bernhardt Duo
Thurs. July 31: Grasslands Gypsy-Jazz & Swing Duo

Venue: Adelle’s
Address: 1060 College Avenue
City: Wheaton
State: IL
Zip Code: 60187
Telephone: (630) 784-8015

RADIO STATION INFO:

Name: WDCB Public Radio
Telephone: (630) 942-4200
Email Address: WDCBMktg@cod.edu

Check out the station, check out their awesome website. You can tune in via the internet no matter what part of the globe you live on. Donate if you have the means. Also, tell them you heard about the station right here and, finally, check out one of their sponsored shows.

Enjoy!

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