Here is the message I sent to the WUSF-FM administration today (10-31-22) regarding the end of jazz programming: Speaking for the Palladium and our audience, we remain very upset with the decision to remove jazz programming from the radio. From our viewpoint, the decision was made without a chance for[…]
Everyone in the Tampa Bay music world was shocked and saddened to learn last week that WUSF radio plans to cancel all jazz programming at the station at the end of October, officially ending a 56-year commitment to presenting jazz in our community. WUSF’s “All Night Jazz” has been a[…]
The Palladium has become Tampa Bay’s home for jazz and that continues this Thursday night in the Side Door. We are welcoming Bill Cunliffe, a Grammy winning pianist and arranger, to our intimate nightclub. Mike Cornette, jazz director of WUSF Radio, will be doing a interview with Cunlife, on[…]
I hadn’t been at the Palladium long when I looked up from my desk to see a sporty-looking gent with a manchu-moustache and a bald head, standing in my doorway. “I’m Stan Hunter,” he said. “When you gonna give me a gig?” I recognized him from a Palladium[…]
