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WGBH Fundraising Spot for Jazz #1

From: WGBH Radio Boston
Length: 01:56

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Playing: WGBH Fundraising Spot for Jazz #1
From: WGBH Radio Boston

Default-piece-image-2 Mark Paskind, a jazz fan, talks about discovering jazz for the first time and the passion he then found for John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. It's a fundraising spot that concludes with the listener asking other listeners to contribute to WGBH.

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Piece Description

Mark Paskind, a jazz fan, talks about discovering jazz for the first time and the passion he then found for John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. It's a fundraising spot that concludes with the listener asking other listeners to contribute to WGBH.