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Jazz Beat 42 - Charles Neville

Charles Neville
Steven Sussman

Tom Reney pays memorial tribute to Charles Neville on this edition of Jazz Beat. 

Neville was the saxophone-playing member of the world-renowned Neville Brothers, New Orleans’ first family of funk. But as a longtime resident of western Massachusetts, he was also a local hero who was a ubiquitous presence on area bandstands for over twenty years, and an artist who made significant contributions to the cultural vitality of the region.

The podcast features cuts by Charles, as well as Larry Williams, Bobby Marchan, and the Neville Brothers.

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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