Swingin' Years-Sundays at 8pm-Hosted by Chuck Cecil

Peconic Public Broadcasting ^ | 11/1/2015 | WPPB/Peconic Public Broadcasting

[Nextrush]

A musical expression called "Rock n' Roll" was just developing in 1956 when Chuck Cecil started a radio show call the "Swingin' Years". The idea was to perpetuate the memory of swing music by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, The Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Guy Lombardo, Count Basie......

[Nextrush]

My favorite radio show and maybe yours is still around after all these years (Chuck Cecil's "Swingin' Years") Sunday nights at 8pm Eastern.

If you click the triangle with the circle on it near the top of the page, you can hear the radio station live.

[warsaw44]

Thanks for posting this.

I am always looking for stations that broadcast jazz, big band etc.

The local public radio station here in the Boston area wiped out most of the jazz programs not too long ago. A real shame.

Its the only reason I ever tune in.

The MIT radio station WMBR has as wide a range of musical programs as you can imagine. THey are online of course.

Tonight at 6:00 to 8:00 is Captain Al’s program which is all Motown. Lots of good stuff on that station.

[Nextrush]

I first heard this show as a child in the 1970’s. I’ve enjoyed it a lot for entertainment as well as the historical knowledge of the music that’s shared including Chuck’s extensive files of live interviews with the musicians and singers of the “Swing Era”.

“Swingin’ Years” was dropped from the schedule of KJAZ in Long Beach, CA a few years back and I just found its new location a few months back.

[x1stcav]

I spent many a late night driving and listening to Cecile in the 70’s and 80’s.

Still listen to the music from that era on Pandora.

[Cecily]

Do you get the Riverwalk Jazz program on any of your NPR stations?

http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/programs

[warsaw44]

Will certainly take a look at the Riverwalk Jazz programs but will most likely find them outside of the Boston NPR circuit.

The local public broadcasting, WGBH, massacred the jazz programming a few years back: Steve Schwartz’s “ Jazz Decades “ was removed, Eric Jackson’s nightly jazz program was moved to weekends only.

It was a pretty big deal around here with both Schwartz and Jackson being much loved and highly influential in the jazz world.

Its a shame.

Online I still find programs here and there. I listen to Jazzradio.com which is really quite good. Pandora is also good.

There is WEIB a western Massachusetts station which has a mix of smooth and urban jazz ( other genres mixed in too ). I think if I really searched the net I’d find plenty of public radio jazz.