Jazz with David Jaye

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Monday 1-5am
Monday 1-5pm
Tuesday 1-5am
Tuesday 1-5pm
Wednesday 1-5am
Wednesday 1-5pm
Thursday 1-5am
Thursday 1-5pm

For more than 20 years, David Jaye has been entertaining crowds of all kinds. Trained as a classical singer, his talents soon took him to acting on the stage and screen. His television credits include numerous commercials, as well as TV movies such HBO's "Criminal Justice" and NBC's "Stuck with Each Other."

David Jaye been a familiar jazz radio personality on Pittsburgh radio for 30+ years -- WDUQ/90.5, WYJZ/860, WJAS/1320, WJJJ/104.7 & WWCS/540. He was the jazz arts director for the Shadyside Summer Arts Festival (1981-2001) working with such jazz greats as David Amram, Joe Beck, Don Braden, Ed Calle, Ravi Coltrane, Hank Crawford, 'Papa John' & Joey DeFrancesco, Charlie Earland, Robin Eubanks, Slide Hampton, Johnny Lytle, Ray Mantilla, Susannah McCorkle, Jay McShann, Bob Mintzer, Mark Murphy, Jackie Paris, Houston Person, Emily Remler, Rosanna Vitro, Jack Walrath, Carla White & many others.

He's also written jazz record reviews, articles and/columns for Pittsburgh Music Makers, Talk Magazine, Downbeat, Carnegie Magazine, Spotlite Pittsburgh and the McKeesport Daily News. His liner notes have appeared on some 20 jazz albums for artists such as Eric Kloss, Red Rodney, Charles Earland, John Hicks, Johnny Costa, Jimmy Ponder, 'Papa John' DeFrancesco, Larry Coryell and Kenny Blake, among others. Since 2007, he's compiled and produced a series of six jazz 'songbook' albums spotlighting compositions of Horace Silver, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Cedar Walton and Thelonious Monk as recorded by various artists on the HighNote and Savant Record labels.

David was honored by the Pittsburgh/Mellon Jazz Festival in 1986 for "Outstanding Contributions to Jazz in Pittsburgh." His 1990s weekly program "The Jazz Place" (on WWCS Radio) won an A.I.R. Award as Western PA's "Outstanding Specialty Program" in 1997.

He's been a voting member of NARAS, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences -- the Grammy® granting organization -- for nearly 20-years.

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