Energize your evening with two hours of mainstream jazz on Café Jazz. Tracy Ross gets the week started, Todd Hill picks up the jazz on Tuesdays, George Eldred takes it from there on Wednesdays and Dr. Brian Clardy tops off the week on Thursdays. Whether you're new to jazz or an aficionado, Café Jazz is the place to satisfy that fix.
Host Info
Tracy Ross began working for WKMS in 1994 while a student at Murray State. He left the station for a year to live in North Carolina; returning to WKMS as a full-time staff member in 2000. Since then, Tracy has served as WKMS' Operations/Web/Jazz Director, and host of All Things Considered. Tracy has a love of music that borders on obsession which serves him well as host of Beyond The Edge, which he revived in 2001 and more recently, Café Jazz on Monday nights. Tracy lives in or around Murray with his wife, son, and two dogs. In his spare time, Tracy enjoys food, water, oxygen, shelter, reading, writing, listening to music, and criticizing the status quo. |
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| Todd E. Hill is the Director of Jazz Ensembles at Murray State University. He leads his own well-known (The Todd Hill Quartet and Todd Hill and his Orchestra) throughout the southeast. He has performed with such diverse entertainers as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Gary Morris, Alex Harvey, Denise LaSalle, Mike Snider, Stella Parton, and The Moody Blues in addition to notable jazz artists Wycliffe Gordon, Byron Stripling, Allen Vizzutti, Chris Vadala, Ron Wilkins, Jamey Aebersold, Denis DiBlasio, Buddy Childers and Rich Matteson. He has also been a featured soloist with the Paducah Symphony "Pops" Series. Hill is included in Marquis’ “Who’s Who in America.” |
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| George Eldred has lived most of his life in Princeton, Kentucky except for a 15 year stint of studying music in Sewanee, Tennessee and Lawrence, Kansas and working in camera and photofinishing shops in the Washington, DC area. George first went on the air around the 4th grade when the local station in Princeton used to get elementary school students to read children's books from the library on the air. He joined the WKMS staff from 1994-1998 producing a classical music show. In 2001 he started producing Café Jazz one night a week and in 2005 began hosting Commonwealth Classics. Now he hosts Café Jazz on Wednesdays. |
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| Dr. Brian Clardy is an assistant professor of history and Coordinator of Religious Studies at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. His academic interests are primarily in 20th Century Diplomatic History, American politics, and the social and political protest movements of the 1960s. While living in Chicago, Clardy was a regular columnist for “Newtopia Magazine.” He was a member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and an auxiliary volunteer for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is also a regular contributor to the WKMS 91.3FM weekly radio program, “The Eisenhower Hour,” and he is a frequent commentator to the station on such issues as U.S. foreign policy and the development of American jazz. Clardy is also an ordained minister who preaches in a number of area pulpits. Living in Murray, Kentucky, Brian enjoys golf, cooking, jazz and classical music (especially Mozart). |
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If you like this show, check out these other shows on WKMS:
Suggestions, Requests, Comments? Send an email to tracy.ross@murraystate.edu,
george.eldred@murraystate.edu, todd.hill@murraystate.edu, brian.clardy@murraystate.edu
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