KEDM2 Jazz

KEDM2 Jazz features music by the masters and new artists, with Jazz classics and the latest releases 24 hours a day, seven days a week. KEDM2 Jazz offers engaging and enlightening hosts, and topical information for the Jazz listener.

KEDM2 Jazz artists include Clifford Brown, Billie Holiday, Max Roach, Herbie Mann, Dianne Reeves, Ray Charles, Art Pepper, Harry Connick, Jr., The Modern Jazz Quartet, Paul Desmond, Shirley Horn, Benny Carter, Charlie Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Ramsey Lewis, Joe Turner, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Etta Jones, Wes Montgomery, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Gene Ammons, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Abdullah Ibrahim, Red Garland, Scott Hamilton, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, and many, many more.

Jeff Fox
Jeff is an Associate Professor of English and Japanese at the College of Southern Idaho, and he is also a working musician who plays guitar, bass, and saxophone. He has played in the CSI Jazz Orchestra, which played at Montreux, Switzerland Jazz Festival which has appeared in New York City at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in 2001. He has fronted several jazz groups over the years ranging from an eight-piece little big band to a duo featuring sax and guitar. Jeff has also performed on and produced several CDs for local jazz artists. Jeff has been involved off and on in jazz radio for more than twenty years. He also hosts a local show which airs on public radio stations in Idaho.

Bonnie Grice
For more than 20 years, Bonnie has programmed some of the most listened-to music on public radio. Her wealth of radio experience, producing/hosting and interviewing, add up to a standard of professionalism that she has spent a lifetime developing. She hosted her first live talk show at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio, while pursuing a Master's Degree in Mass Communication at Miami University. She was the fine arts editor and daily music host at WKSU in Kent and then the morning drive host and producer/host of a weekly arts magazine for KUSC in Los Angeles. Bonnie’s tenure as producer/announcer in public radio includes other NPR affiliates such as WNYC in New York and WGBH in Boston, plus a variety of commercial stations including KKGO in Los Angeles and its sister station in San Francisco. Bonnie leads a busy life outside of radio. She is a librettist and author. Bonnie is also a flutist and an aspiring singer. She has spent some time in the theatre as both actor and producer. Plus, she is an avid fan of football and fast cars.

Tony Mowod
Tony Mowod, Executive Producer/Jazz, at WDUQ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is also the President and Founder of the Pittsburgh Jazz Society, and has been one of Pittsburgh's most enduring champions of jazz for more than four decades. Even as a teenager, Tony dazzled by the tremendous number of jazz greats from his native Pittsburgh, responded to them not only as a fan does, but as a young musician himself. (The vibraphone was his instrument of choice after studying classical piano as a youngster.) While attending Duquesne University, Tony embarked on his broadcasting career at WDUQ. Since then, he has been associated with WAZZ, WTAE, WKPA, WYDD, WAMO, and finally, coming full circle back "home" to WDUQ. He now serves on the board of the American Federation of Jazz Societies. Tony has also been involved in theater. Appearing off-Broadway and on television, as well as local pursuits in professional summer stock, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Children's Theater, and Duquesne University's Red Masquers, among others.

Scott Hanley
Scott has experience in most aspects of broadcasting, especially public radio, in a twenty-plus year career. A former reporter, arts producer, music director, news director and program director, he is active with a number of influential public broadcasting organizations and is a regular leader or panelist at national conferences. A trained musician, Scott had an active performing career in years past, including vocal work in choral, operatic, musical theater and jazz combo settings, plus instrumental work as a trombonist. Although he performs infrequently, he is most likely to be heard these days singing jazz in a small group setting.

Bob Studebaker
Bob Studebaker joined the staff of WDUQ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in December 1997. He hosts DUQ's morning jazz program, Monday through Fridays from 9 a.m. to Noon, and also serves as the station’s production director. Bob is a Pittsburgh native. In addition to his independent work in audio production, he has worked since 1980 with various radio stations in the Pittsburgh market including WNUF, WWCL, WXXP, WORD, WQKB, WMXP, and WJJJ. With an avid interest in history, Bob has taught the "History of Jazz" at Carnegie Mellon University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning, tracing the roots of jazz from 17th century West Africa to the many influences and experiences that have contributed to the evolution of "America's classical music."