Life Imitating Art: What’s wrong with Jazz Plus Claudia Acuna in The Jazz Room
Release Date: 07/10/2024
We Can’t Park in Rutland, Vermont! Plus new podcast announcement ‘Housers’
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Host Scott Graves is joined by fellow Vermont houser Stephen Box of Rutland. Our discussion focused on both the local discussion and a more global look at how parking is affecting housing in all of our communities in the United States. Stephan, a loyal resident recently received a parking ticket in front of his own house due to a winter parking ban (we know you listeners in Florida are scratching your heads). And our city is in the midst of discussion around a . At the local level, how can we craft our parking ordinances to encourage housing growth? And with the...
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Our Season Closer: The Jazz Room & Female Instrumentalists
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And in today's episode we show you some of the leading examples today. We end our season ten with host Joan Watson Jones look into some of Jazz’s unsung heroes. Women representing a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds have always been vital to the jazz community. With that said, most folks focus on the jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn. In this Jazz Room we look to the women as instrumentalists and largely from current times including Carol Sudhalter, Linda Presgrave, Jan Lear, Marion McPartland, Shirley Horn (yes, she...
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Re-thinking Commerce: Enter the Gifting Grove
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As we enter the winter solstice, exploring the dark that inevitably comes before the light, we’re considering new ways to think about gifting, yes, and what of commerce? What of a community that reverses the epidemic of loneliness pervasive in our modern society? Can we do better? That’s up in the latest Are We Here Yet? Podcast to close season X and 2024. I’m joined by Veronica Mangio, founder of the Minneapolis-based and once again by my good friend from Grand Isle County, Vermont based Byron Garcia of Natural Designs. Veronica is the inspiring founder of...
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The Can-Do of Camden, IN- Neil Mylet
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Neil Mylet is a do-er. He’s a farmer, a tech advocate and connecting rod. Neil is also putting his money and his talents where his mouth is, funding his own project, Camden Castle and ensuring a wide spectrum of top-tier programming and connections for his 600 neighbors in the village of Camden, Indiana. Neil sees great opportunity in a future rural economy leveraging AI, blockchain, among other tech and tech-enabled products and services yet to be developed. Students and their families from this village of are given opportunities to intern and engage with organizations in...
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Innova802: Pt II New Frameworks Plus The Jazz Room Celebrates the Saxophone
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We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure. But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more. Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to...
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Innova802: New Frameworks Plus The Jazz Room on Drummers
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We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace. New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration. Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure. But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more. Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to...
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Innova802: Snap, Crackle, Pop! Plus a Tribute to the legend Quincy Jones
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is a construction materials company manufacturing foam glass gravel, or in company parlance GLAVEL. CEO Rob Conboy sat down with the Innova802 crew to discuss what it took to bring this technology to market in the US. How are they leading in recycling and carbon sequestration, excellence in innovative construction materials how they plan for growth and what effect they can have contributing to solve the housing crisis. We recently toured their facility and give credit to the Glavel team for epitomizing what a Vermont rural innovation company should look like. Shout out...
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AWHY? Music feature Extra: We Remember Saxophonist Lou Donaldson
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Lou Donaldson passed away on November 10, 2024. In a career spanning more than seven decades, the alto saxophonist began as a stylist devotee to the bop of Charlie Parker, quickly evolving into a soulful and bluesy player which became his signature. Joan Watson Jones, host of the AWHY? Music feature The Jazz Room sat down to interview Lou in 2020 at Studio 952 in Harlem, New York City. In Part 1 of their interview Lou tells us how he got started in the business and why he took up the Saxophone. In Part 2 he tells us about working with Miles Davis, Jimmy Smith and offers his own...
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AWHY? Music feature: Celebrating Gershwin in Jazz
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Our music feature, The Jazz Room returns for a feature of the great American composer George Gershwin. Host Joan Watson Jones features many great musicians from a long list of recordings featuring the work of George Gershwin, one of the most prized composers of the American song book. For jazz musicians, Gershwin represents an endless source to be mined to create great improvisations and has been for over a century.
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The Case for Incremental Development
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Our guest is Noah Harper. I met Noah at the conference in Providence, RI. We were tasked by the organization to debate whether the Congress is positioned well as a leading voice in the current housing challenge before us all. Thus sparked some great discussion. Noah has been featured in He is a community planner for the firm J.M. Goldson. Noah is a strong advocate for incremental development and we're sure you will find inspiration in his seamless movement through themes of design excellence, craftsmanship to equity and democracy. In his own words,...
info_outlineErica Von Kleist is performing artist, educator, businesswoman, colorful commentator on any number of the more ridiculous intersections between art and modern life and wouldn’t you know, she plays the saxophone to top it all off and we have to acknowledge, just had the premiere of three new arrangements at no less than Carnegie Hall.
I’ve admired her work for many years now and thought about asking for an interview for the AWHY podcast, it was the commentary of many of our peers in and out of music to a social media post by a third party some months ago that finally brought us here.
It seems that within music education circles, art is certainly imitating life. With one comment by a young-ish undergrad regarding the behavior of collegiate faculty in music departments that we got a whole lot of ‘Boomer’ and ‘kids these days’ type of repartee.
So what gives when we’re all just trying to get along? Wouldn’t we be more useful to each other by crossing the threshold of generational divides? I thought that was what Jazz was all about anyways, we’re hoping Erica can set us straight.
And in the Jazz Room… We had a fun interview with Grammy nominated, singer/composer Claudia Acuna at the Newport Jazz Festival. She talks about the inspirations for her songs. You’ll hear cuts from her albums “Duo” and ”Turning Pages” . Learn more at www.claudiaacuna.com