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Jazz Beat #6 - Bob Dylan And The Butterfield Blues Band

New England Public Media | By Tom Reney
Published September 11, 2015 at 2:57 PM EDT
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Bob Dylan And The Butterfield Blues Band

On Jazz Beat, Tom Reney focuses on the Newport Folk Festival fifty years ago, when the Paul Butterfield Blues Band brought the electric blues to Newport and Bob Dylan followed suit.

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Tom Reney
Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a bachelor's degree from UMass Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.


Email Tom at tom_reney@nepm.org.
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