What will the jazz radio of the future sound like? This is part two of our Talking Jazz series on jazz radio — our panelists are making the radio of the future today and will tell you how they do it as they prepare for changes to come for radio producers and listeners. Panelists: Arturo Gómez became an on air-host at WDNA-Miami in 1989 and music director a few months later. Since 2003 Gómez has been the music director at jazz89 KUVO-Denver, winning Gavin Music Director of the Year and three Jazz Week Music Director of the Year honors. In 2014 he received the Jazz Week Duke Dubois Jazz Humanitarian Award. He is heavily involved in community and cultural affairs, music education and organizer of the annual 5 Points Jazz Festival of Denver. Katie Simon is the executive producer of NPR Music’s Jazz Night in America, produced with WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center and was recently named Senior Producer for National Programming at WBGO, Newark Public Radio. She has been a senior producer for Story Corps and has also reported for WBGO, Newark Public Radio, and written for NPR’s JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Katie’s work has twice been awarded the George Foster Peabody Award. Jim Wilke has hosted and produced live and recorded jazz radio shows since 1957, including Jazz After Hours on PRI, which he recently retired from after 30 years. A JJA Jazz Hero and winner of the Willis Conover-Marian McParkland Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, he’s mixed and produced hundreds of s on-location programs featuring Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, among many others. He continues to produce a weekly Jazz Northwest show focusing on the regional jazz scene; his new website is www.hatchcover.co Moderated by JJA President Howard Mandel. This Google Hangout was part of the Jazz Journalists Association's Talking Jazz series supported by the Jazz Cruise.

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