October 5 Listen Before You Buy: Co-Host Anna Williams will play recent jazz piano releases.
October 12 October 12: Co-Host Ron Steeds surveys jazz and blues recorded on October 12 between 1927 and 1996.
October 19 Boswell Sisters: Co-Host Anna Williams plays the recordings of the Boswell Sisters – the first and the best female jazz vocal trio.
October 26 Funding Drive Program: Animated by Co-Hosts Alnoor Allidina, Ron Steeds & Anna Williams.
November 2 Funding Drive Program: Animated by Co-Hosts Susan Galvin, Jim Reil and Ron Steeds.
November 9 Favourite Singers: Co-Host Anna Williams plays recordings by favourite jazz singers born in November.
November 16 Stephen Neale: Guest host Stephen Neale fills in tonight. The first hour will feature selected works from blues singer and pianist Charles Brown (b. 1922; d. 1999). In the second hour, Stephen pulls out various jazz selections from the CKCU-FM library.
November 23 November 23: Co-Host Ron Steeds provides us with a chronological survey of jazz and blues recordings recorded on November 23.
November 30 Listen Before You Buy – Vocalists.
December 7 Listen Before You Buy – Instrumentals.
December 14 December 14: Co-Host Ron Steeds provides us with a chronological survey of jazz and blues recordings recorded on December 14
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December 21 An Indo-Jazz Update: Co-Host Jim Reil will explore some recent fruits of a particularly fertile tree — jazz influenced by the music of India.
December 28 Best of 2011:
“In A Mellow Tone” is on CKCU every Wednesday from 9:00 to 11:00pm at 93.1FM in Ottawa, and around the world on the Internet at: http://www.ckcufm.com/audio.html
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Bill Coleman, 1904-1981
About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
