Jazz à la Mode

Welcome to Jazz à la Mode, which airs weeknights between 8-11 p.m. on 88.5FM WFCR.  Hosted by Tom Reney since 1984, Jazz à la Mode draws on the rich and varied traditions of jazz from the 1920's to the present. Whether it's a classic recording by Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, a great standard by Cole Porter or George Gershwin, modern jazz landmarks by Miles Davis or John Coltrane, or the latest by Karrin Allyson or Wynton Marsalis, Jazz à la Mode has plenty to satisfy your tastes.

Further information:

Click here for Tom Reney's "Desert Island" Jazz selections.

Read Tom Reney's Tribute to the late Marion Brown published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 12, 2010

Click here to listen to Tom Reney's interview with Bob Wilber.

Click here for Part 2 of Tom Reney's interview with Bob Wilber.

Click here for Tom Reney's interview with jazz critic Gary Giddins about Sonny Rollins' receipt of this year's MacDowell Colony Medal.

Read Tom Reney's interview with Wynton Marsalis here.

Listen to Tom Reney's interview with Steve Kuhn where the pianist discusses his recording Promises Kept, and his long career with Serge Chaloff, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Stan Getz, Sheila Jordan and others.

Tom Reney interviews Paul Winter about the 50th anniversary of the first jazz band to play the White House. 

Tom Reney interviews clarinetist Evan Christopher 

Tom Reney speaks with the playwright Terry Teachout and the actor John Douglas Thompson

Recent Playlists

Jazz Blog

06/19/2013
Django in June, as sure a sign of summer in the Valley as the Bright Moments Festival used to be, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week in Northampton.   Kudos to Andrew Lawrence...
06/14/2013
Dizzy Gillespie has gradually emerged as the musician I've written about most since the inception of this blog nearly two years, so when I discovered this footage of his Bebop...

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