Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement is a one hour program devoted to seven classic Jazz recordings which focuses on the Civil Rights Movement. The subject matter pays attention to the sit in movement, the National Guard intervention to prevent integration at Little Rock Central High School, the Freedom Riders, the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama, Rosa Parks and the Selma Marches.

The music is performed by Charles Mingus, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Clark Terry, Grant Green, Blue Mitchell and Art Blakey.

This one hour program is divided into three sets with room for the News, PSA's and announcements.

I created and broadcast this show one week after Michael Jackson's death. Like most people I was in shock for almost two days. I was overrun with E-mail before and after the broadcast. Most people wanted to know when it would be re-broadcast, because they had missed it. Some people just wanted to tell someone else, how Michael Jackson affected their lives. I don’t think any of us knew how important Michael Jackson was to most people of all ages, races, nationality and religion all over the world.

This variety show highlights the career of Michael Jackson from 1966 / 1967 until the present. We only focused on his musical history. We highlight some of the recordings from the Jackson Five’s Steel Town Record (of Gary Indiana) period circa 1966 through 1968. They only achieved a local regional hit at the time which was called Big Boy. The years in-between 1969 and 1976 were the group’s Motown period, plus the debut of Michael Jackson’s solo career. We highlight most of these recordings on this show. In 1976 the group left Motown and Joined Epic Records. The Sound of Philadelphia’s song writing team of Gamble & Huff were assigned to the new Jacksons group. They were backed up by MFSB and more hits continued. One of their biggest hits during this period was Enjoy Yourself.  By 1979 Michael Jackson released his ground breaking Off The Wall album, preceding Thriller, Bad, Dangerous and the rest.

In this three hour broadcast, I cover the high level of Michael Jackson’s career. Because of time constraints and the vastness of the Jackson Five and Michael Jackson discography, I could not include any Jermaine Jackson or Janet Jackson solo music. I hope that you will enjoy my tribute to one of the true geniuses of our life time.

Howard Burchette

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They are Rock, Soul, Funk and hit makers. They are Rare Earth. Gil Bridges talks about the history of Rare Earth. The band was created in the early 1960's calling themselves The Sunliners. They recorded their first album on Verve Records with help from Dennis Coffey. By 1969, they were at Motown and worked with Norman Whitfield and help to form the Psychedelic Soul sound. On this show we will listen to the many sounds of Rare Earth, plus the Temptations, Edwin Starr, The Undisputed Truth, Rose Royce and many others.

Now, Let's celebrate with RARE EARTH!

Jazz Time's Halloween Jazz Party is hosted by Igor . He spins the music from his master the Doctor's record collection. Good fun and Halloween Jazz music includes the "Theme from The Adams Family ", "The Theme from the Munsters ", "Dracula ", "Frankenstein ", "Blues For Dracula ", "Halloween Spooks ", "The Witches Pit ", "Devil May Care ", "Prince of Darkness ",  and much more.

Jimmy Smith was also known as The Incredible Jimmy Smith was a Jazz musician who became popular by playing the Hammond B-3 electric organ. He recorded around 40 albums for Blue Note Records in just eight years beginning in 1956. He switched to Verve Records in 1962 and was accompanied by a big band on many of the sessions. He also recorded with other artists like Michael Jackson on his successful album “Bad”. This program is an introduction to the great Jimmy Smith and gives examples of how his style incorporates the Blues and Soul.

I've Got the Blues and I've Got Soul! The Incredible Jimmy Smith is a one hour program divided into three sets leaving room for PSAs, the news, announcements, station IDs etc.