Community/independent college WMBR producer/host Ken Field has come up with a brilliant idea, a jazz funeral in conjunction with Eric Jackson's final weekday evening program.
From Ken: "WGBH Radio's management has recently demolished its jazz programming by firing Steve Schwartz and relegating Eric Jackson to weekends. Join others in saying goodbye to decades of weeknight jazz programming on WGBH by participating as a musician or listener in a short New Orleans style jazz funeral outside WGBH studios (http://www.wgbh.org/about/Directions.cfm) on the final evening of Eric Jackson's weeknight program."
Hundreds attended the funeral held Thursday, July 5 ourside the studios of "public" radio station WGBH in Brighton.
A second funeral, not limited to the passing of jazz but of all music forms (folk and blues were killed in 2009, classical was shuffled off to an inferior carrier in 2010, and Celtic, the only remaining form, could be next) will be held Friday, July 27 in Copley Plaza. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/259272814182000/
45 minute HD recording from Videosphere [Cambridge, MA]
