Produced by:
KBOO
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Air date:
Wed, 09/10/2014 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Don Manning -- a Portland Bebop Legend! Tribute to longtime KBOO jazz host Don Manning.
Nick Gefroh gathers a few of the friends of KBOO's former jazz programer Don Manning, professor of Bebop-ology, for a live tribute program. Portland jazz historian Bob Dietsche co-hosts. If you have a Don Manning story to share, come down to 20 SE 8th or call in during the show at 503-231-8187 (as time permits). Don hosted Bebop Spoken Here for decades on KBOO, ending in 2005. He interviewed many famous jazz musicians he knew , like Dizzy Gillespie, live in KBOO's old Yamhill studio, in about 1980. The show will include some archived material from Don's shows. Online comments about Don or the show can be shared with Don's family after the show...go to http://www.kboo.fm/jazzlives and click "add comment" to comment on the show.