GLT serves jazz almost as many was as a Denny's cook serves eggs. You can hear it on the air on 89.1 and 103.5 FM. There's a GLT Jazz Radio available anywhere you have a computer or with our GLT Mobile App for your iPhone, iPad or Android. It's on demand and archived with our GLT Jazz Next podcasts. Order your jazz and get it served your way, whenever you want.
While GLT Jazz works to play the best of new and classic jazz, Laura Kennedy and Don Munson work at reminding you of jazz's origins. During SwingTime, Monday at 8 PM, you hear music from the 1930's and 40's swing era, sometimes a little earlier. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong's early bands Laura showcases. You'll also hear Laura's favorite singers: Ella, Billie and Sinatra. During Radio Munson you're sure to hear a generous dose of Sinatra, but chances are it won't be Sinatra who sang with Dorsey, but the Sinatra who was a top Las Vegas draw. Don's music swings hard...but it's swing of a newer era. Hear Radio Munson Thursday evening, 7-9 PM.
Husband/Wife duo John Pizzarelli and Jesssica Molaskey broadcast Radio Deluxe from their deluxe living room high above Lexington Avenue in New York City every Tuesday night from 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Radio Deluxe with has enjoyed visits by many memorable guests since its first show on December 3, 2005. Regis Philbin dropped by on Christmas weekend; Janis Siegel, of the Manhattan Transfer, brought biscotti; Margaret Whiting broke into a live song about her "Uncle Johnny" Mercer; Liza loved what John and Jessie had done with the apartment; Keely Smith told about being engaged to Frank Sinatra; and Stacey Kent revealed her favorite ski resorts and why none of them are in Holland. Other guests have been Tony Danza, Steve Tyrell, Kenny Rankin, Peter Cincotti, Ann Hampton Callaway, and of course, the members of the John Pizzarelli Quartet, along with daughter Madeline Pizzarelli and her grandfather, Bucky Pizzarelli.
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Don has entertained central Illinois radio listeners for nearly 50 years. He helped build the radio powerhouse WJBC and spent most of his career there. During his tenure as program director, WJBC was the highest rated AM radio station in the nation. GLT now claims this radio legend and during his show Radio Munson you'll hear the great swing bands, the hot vintage jazz combos, the Vegas headliners and the veterans of smokey jazz clubs in Chicago, New Orleans and New York--they are all a part of the finger-snapping, toe-tapping stew that is Radio Munson. It’s music presented like radio once was, with stories behind the songs of Basie and Benny, Ella and Lady Day, Django and Satchmo, and today’s keepers-of-the-flame like Diana Krall and Michael Buble. Hear Radio Munson at 7 PM Thursday.
