Jazz Decades – WGBH Alumni Network

Steve Schwartz, 74, Radio Jazz Host

May 15, 2017 |

Eric Jackson: “Steve was this warm presence who invited you in when he was on the air with the sound of his voice and the music he played.”

Ray Smith, 87, 30-year voice of Jazz Decades

March 3, 2010 |

Via QuickNooz Jazz fans lost a good friend with the death on February 26 of longtime WGBH Radio host Ray Smith, who was 87. Since 1972, Ray shared his encyclopedic knowledge as host of 89.7’s The Jazz Decades, bringing ragtime, blues, swing, and the great jazz of the 1920s and ’30s to the ‘GBH airwaves.…

Just How Far Have We Come?

January 1, 2000 |

Television and radio, New Television Workshop, educational services, more From Don Hallock – 2000 Just how far have we come? How many programs, series, co-productions and other projects have borne the WGBH logo over the past 50 years? In that time, an enormous and varied community of richly talented human beings have transformed a modest…