Don’t Give Up: The Hudson River Park’s Tom Fox Plus Arturo O’Farrill in The Jazz Room
Release Date: 07/16/2024
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,...
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Celebrating the Life of Saxophonist Claire Daly
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We’ve had the pleasure of featuring Baritone Saxophonist Claire Daly twice in the AWHY? Music feature, The Jazz Room. Host Joan Watson Jones first sat down with Clare at Studio 952 in New York City to talk about her CD "Baritone Monk", recorded at the North Coast Brewing Company. In our second interview Claire spoke to Joan regarding her recording, "The Mary Joyce Project-Nothing to Lose" which tells the story of her father's cousin Mary Joyce who crossed Alaska on dog sled alone in the mid 1920's. Learn more about Claire and her music at www.clairedalymusic.com
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The North Adams Opportunity Scene
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Our guest, Andrew Fitch is Communications Manager for , a Venture Capital Source pioneered by founders and government in the city of North Adams, MA. The last decade or more has seen a resurgence in young professionals rediscovering opportunities in the western half of Massachusetts. Opportunities in housing, urban development, entrepreneurship and life crafting. Much of Andrew’s time is focused on developing the capacity of the , centered in North Adams. Along with other surging organizations working in collaboration, the northern half of Berkshire County is redefining its...
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Innova802: Activate with UVM’s Kendall Fortney
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Kendall Fortney is an artist and designer based in Vermont who is currently the Program Director for UVM's VERSO the open-source program centered at the University. Kendall spoke with the Innova802 crew on the power of the open-source community in shaping a society that delivers human-scaled, beneficial solutions in technology. VERSO offers a vibrant community of problem solvers engaged in their accelerator. Also mentioned in our conversation
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Our Indigenous Peoples Day Special
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For our latest Are We Here yet? podcast we offer four perspectives sure to keep you contemplating on this upcoming Indigenous People’s Day. Our Season III guest Doug Harris, retired archivist for the Narragansett Tribe spoke to us regarding . We feature two clips here, the first focused on answering the question, ‘what is this place and who are we?’ The second which ends our podcast focuses on his groundbreaking work alongside Smithsonian documentarian , which has dispelled many falsehoods about the peoples of this part of North America. How they lived, traded and thrived for...
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Making Pee Pay w/ founder of BrightWater Tools plus Orrin Evans in The Jazz Room
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CEO Kimmerly Nace is dedicated to changing the narrative on how we see our waste. She’s passionate about making this planet, or rather making its people work better for a sustainable planet for all of us, creatures large and small. Imagine a world where our toughest waste issues become some of our most profitable revenue centers? Literally turning problems into profit; using our existing financial incentives for good and not greed. We spoke about her team at of Brattleboro, VT and it’s origin story in the international mission organization she also founded the . ...
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Innova802 Series: Why tech should START with employee ownership plus Orrin Evans in The Jazz Room
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Startup founders: today’s audio plat savoureux from the Innova802 crew focused on our guest Matt Cropp, executive director of the We discussed why you need to consider your future exit now at the onset of your enterprise and why you should take a serious look at forming an employee-owned enterprise and how. The history of tech and tech enabled companies since the post WWII years is a history of equity sharing so it’s often a short walk for companies to consider employee ownership (co-operative models, employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)). We defined how these models work...
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Solving the Housing Crisis in Rutland, VT w/ the RRA’s Ed Bove plus composer Maria Schneider
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We examine local real estate markets and the unique mix of property and economic development components at the local level here at the ‘Are We Here Yet?’ podcast so our listeners can find inspiration for their own local efforts back home. This episode host Scott Graves sat down with Ed Bove, Executive Director of the in Scott’s adoptive hometown of Rutland, VT. Scott found resonance with Ed in their shared interest in incremental development and generally a ‘Strong Towns’ approach to neighborhood building. The discussion centered on how Rutland and the RRA...
info_outlineSince 1975, Tom Fox has been at the forefront of urban park and waterfront development primarily in New York City.
His creative thinking, commitment to community engagement and coalition building, use of unique funding mechanisms, and knowledge of government and the media have resulted in revitalized waterfronts and waterways, new parks, greenways and community gardens that have made the city a more desirable and sustainable place to live, work, and visit.
A working class kid from Brooklyn, Tom’s work has required a lot of creativity when it comes to financial planning. It’s required knowledge of government, media and it’s also required an ever-refined sense for relationships and how to keep things moving.
Tom’s also been resilient. He’s seen the development of the Hudson River Park from the outset and he knows how to win, lose and just keep going. On top of also being a successful entrepreneur.
Tom is the author of ‘Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed and it’s the story he tells us here that’s why Tom is joining us today.
... In The Jazz Room We met Pianist, Composer Arturo O‘Farrill after his set at the Newport Jazz Festival. We talked about his Grammy winning album “Four Questions”. In part 1 we talk about the influence of Dr. Cornell West and the ”Four Questions” as the inspiration for his album. Learn more about Arturo at https://www.auturoofarrill.com.