16-Station Georgia Public Broadcasting Network Expands Its Jazz Programming with Jazz Without Borders

Georgia Public Broadcasting is pleased to add another original program to its jazz line-up. Beginning October 7 veteran jazz journalist and publicist Mitchell Feldman will start producing and hosting “Jazz Without Borders" from the studios of WACG/ 90.7FM in Augusta each week from midnight Saturday until 3AM Saunday.

This new show expands the stylistic and geographic spectrum of jazz currently heard during GPB's other jazz offerings such as “The Jazz Spot," “Piano Jazz" and “Jazz With Bob Parlocha." “Among my goals are: to air more progressive jazz (both historical and current) in an effort attract younger listeners and establish an audience base for the music in the years to come; to play new releases often as a way to support the jazz music of the moment which is often overshadowed by or gets ignored by mainstream jazz radio in favor of popular and archival favorites; to play non-US artists not only from Latin America and the Caribbean but also from Europe; and to celebrate the heyday during the 1970s of jazz rock fusion and freer forms of jazz."

“Jazz Without Borders" will mix post-1950s modern jazz (i.e. the music of such masters as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, etc.), classic fusion (electric Miles, Weather Report, Return to Forever, John McLaughlin, etc.) and freer forms of jazz from such creative music scenes as Chicago's AACM, St. Louis's BAG and the lower Manhattan loft scene from their heydays in the 1970s (the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Air, World Saxophone Quartet, etc.), current releases by artists keeping the mainstream jazz tradition alive today (Wynton Marsalis, Pat Martino, the Clayton Brothers, Cedar Walton); established and emerging visionaries extending jazz's stylistic horizons (e.g. Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Uri Caine, Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Chris Potter, Avishai Cohen, the Bad Plus, etc.); “Jam Bands" (Charlie Hunter, Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive); and non-US artists from Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, etc. (Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella, Michel Portal, Tomasz Stanko, Jan Garbarek, Chucho Valdes, Oscar Castro Neves, Eddie Palmieri, etc.).

Mitchell Feldman has been publicizing, promoting and marketing jazz, classical and world music and writing about the music as a freelance journalist since 1976. As he says “My formative years that laid the foundation for success I would have both in the U.S. and abroad were spent in Georgia--on the Contemporary Concert Committee and as Music and Jazz Director at WUOG-FM while attending journalism grad school at the University of Georgia in the late 70s; as Music Program Director and producer of the 1980 Atlanta Free Jazz Festival and 1981 World Music Concert Series while working for the City of Atlanta Department of Cultural Affairs; and as the weekly freelance jazz critic for The Atlanta Constitution, music editor of Atlanta Magazine and jazz columnist for Creative Loafing in the early-mid 80s."

From 2004-2006, Feldman hosted “Friday Night Jazz" on Jazz 89 KUVO in Denver, the #1 major market jazz station in the U.S. He recently relocated to Augusta, GA and will host “Jazz Without Borders" live each week from the studios of GPB affiliate WACG 90.7 FM in Augusta.

Listen to Georgia Public Broadcasting Radio online at www.gpb.org

The GPB Network consists of: Albany 91.7 FM * Athens 91.7 FM * Augusta 90.7 FM * Brunswick 88.9 FM * Carrollton 90.7 FM * Columbus 88.1 FM * Dahlonega 89.5 FM * Demorest 88.3 FM Fort Gaines 90.9 FM * Macon 89.7 FM * Rome 97.7 FM * Savannah 91.1 FM * St. Marys 1190 AM * Tifton 91.1 FM * Valdosta 91.7 FM * Waycross 90.1 FM