Honoring
One of our Own --
A True Jazz Connoisseur
ndrew "Jazzman" Smith, who produces "The Jazzman Show," which airs on Sundays at 2 p.m.on WKMS, leads a full jazz life. His home serves more to shelter a 70,000 recording strong collection than as a personal domicile. We are very lucky that he finds it fun to travel to WKMS from White Bluff, Tennessee, to record his programs with the assistance of George Eldred.
Traveling is also a big part of Jazzman's life as an officer of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC). He is currently registering guests for the group's 2006 Convention in Nashville June 21 through 24. Last year's meeting was in Copenhagen and Andy was there. He travels with a videocam and records concerts, like a hot boogie-woogie house party with Phillipe Lejeune, a French pianist for whom Andy has just produced a new CD. You jazz cats ought to browse IAJRC.org to learn about the organization's quarterly journal, catalogue of jazz recordings, and monographs for members. There you will also find all the registration information you need to join Jazzman at the Nashville Convention in June, at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel. There will be live jazz, conversation about jazz, and more. There's a $115 registration fee that you send to the Jazzman. You can e-mail him at Jazzman9@bellsouth.net for more information.
For the program of the 7th International Festival of Boogie Woogie of La Roquebrou, France last August, Jazzman wrote, "Je viens souvent en France pour ecouter du jazz; j'apprecie egalement son charme et son histoir, ses chateaux et son passé. J'adore Paris et le jazz qu'on y joue, mais je dois dire que le Festival de La Roquebrou a vraiment unde dimension supplementaire par rapport a Paris." (Translation: I often come to France to listen to jazz. I appreciate its charm and its history, its castles and its past. I adore Paris and the jazz one can hear there, but I must say that the Festival of Roquebrou really has that something extra that you just can't find in Paris.") His picture with Claude Bolling graces the program article. The local paper picked up on Jazzman's enthusiasm for the festival and mentioned him in its coverage.
With his wide connections in the world of jazz cats, Jazzman also spreads the word about WKMS. In this year's March 20th KnoxNews, columnist Robert Booker writes of Jazzman having sent him color posters of a 1950's Louis Armstrong concert at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tennessee (Jazzman met Armstrong at that concert and several that followed at the same venue), as well as posters of a Duke Ellington concert at Gordon's Town House on Cumberland Avenue in the same fair city.
All to say, when you listen to "The Jazzman Show" you're hearing from an informed, authentic jazz cat, and it doesn't get much better than that. Thanks, Andy!
PRI's The
World Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
It is the primary mission of PRI's The World to bring international news to U.S. radio listeners. Each day The World illuminates international events and issues, and examines their impact on Americans. When broadcasting of the program began in 1996, "globalization" was used to describe the future. Today globalization is here. The World's job now is to examine how the nations and peoples of the world interact. The program seeks to help Americans increase their knowledge of an increasingly interdependent world. The World uses radio journalism, carefully crafted words and sounds, to spark listeners' imaginations. They consider each listener to be an accomplice in their mission.
What's The World to you?
Tell PRI what The World means to you! They're
collecting stories from listeners who were inspired to take action
by something they heard on The World, and will feature the best stories
at The World Online. If they use your story, we'll send you
a 10th Anniversary T-Shirt from PRI's THE WORLD. 
Send an email to Listener Stories Editor, Stephen Snyder:
stephen.snyder@bbc.co.uk.
For more details, click here.
May
14th is Mother's
Day
And
Did You Know...
In the U.S., Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community--a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day." Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else.
In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother's Day. In 1914 Anna's hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday.
At first, people observed Mother's Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother's day tradition.
Despite Anna's misgivings, Mother's Day has flourished in the U.S. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers.
("Mother's Day History." Online Posting. Found 28 Apr. 2006. http://mothers-day.123holiday.net/)
Poetic Notions
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
- A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -and gazed -but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
Do you have a poem you'd like to include in Wired? If so, contact Stephanie Nutter-Osborne @ 800-599-4737, or click here.
Madisonville
Relay for Life
Yardsale
Employees of the Kentucky Department of Highways District
two office in Madisonville hold a yard sale Saturday, May 6 to benefit
the American Cancer Society's RELAY FOR LIFE. The yard sale starts at
8 a.m. If you would like to donate items for the yard sale or for more
information call 270-824-7080.
Click here for more Regional Events
March 1, MSU moved all campus phone numbers in the 762-exchange to begin with 809. June 1 begins the official date of the new phone number use, but the new number is in use now. WKMS's new phone number will be 270-809-4359, along with our same toll free number of 800-599-4737.
The Kentucky Derby celebrates its 132nd running
this Saturday,
May 6 -- post time 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Whether you are
attending Churchill Downs, or joining friends and family to view a live
broadcast, the Derby is a cherished Kentucky tradition!
DERBY PIE
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
4 teaspoons bourbon
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 cup pecans (you can chop them if you like, for a smoother texture.)
6 oz semisweet chocolate chips
In large mixing bowl, beat eggs and add sugar. Mix in melted butter and bourbon. Stir until you've a gritty paste. Stir in cornstarch, then pecans and chocolate chips.
Pour mixture into nine-inch piecrust and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool for about an hour. Derby Pie should be served warm with a dollop of whipped cream on top. (The pie can also be refrigerated overnight and reheated before serving.) ENJOY!
(Baker, Jesse."Kitchen Window." Online Posting. 5 May 2006. NPR.org.)
STORIES FROM
THE BACK YARD
Do you have a story, or a bit of local news you would like to share with fellow WKMS Members? If so, we'd love to share your piece in Wired! Contact Stephanie Nutter-Osborne today at 800-599-4737, or click here.
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