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Jazz Beat 45 - Tom Reney on Open Source

New England Public Media | By Tom Reney
Published August 26, 2019 at 3:53 PM EDT
Tom Reney and Christopher Lydon
Courtesy of Open Source
Tom Reney and Christopher Lydon

Jazz Beat host Tom Reney appeared on Open Source with Christopher Lydon on WBUR. They discuss jazz and r&b and classical music and Tom Reney reveals eight essential recordings and one book that he would take to a desert island. 

This special episode of Jazz Beat is shared with NEPR courtesy of Open Source. To hear more Open Source go to radioopensource.org
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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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