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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

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Tom Reney and Christopher Lydon

Courtesy of Open Source

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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