The 78-rpm records Gill plays and vinyl 33-rpm albums are "the difference between glass and plastic," said Crawford. "He literally would hot-wire the soundboard" to hook up the turntable, said station manager Tom Crawford. He started out playing his dad's old 78-rpm records and, for years, brought in his own turntable. But "after a period of time the show became pretty well institutionalized," said Gill, who during the rest of the week is a painting contractor. The smile in Gill's hoarse, high-pitched voice suggested he told the anecdote before.
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"They'd say 'Play some Ozzy,'" referring to Black Sabbath singer Osbourne, and, "I'd play some Ozzie Nelson," who was a bandleader before becoming a film and TV star. When he started at the alternative-music, all-volunteer station in 1981, playing big band music "was the only way I could get a show." And for years, younger listeners called in wondering where the rock music was. "My parents liked it and we had a jukebox in the basement." "I grew up on that stuff," said Gill, 62. But radio host Dewey Gill can and does, every Sunday from 9 a.m. My knowledge of jazz is limited to "Compared to What," "Kind of Blue" and "Treme." I can't tell big band from swing.
"It's the idiot deer standing in the open field," he said. A broadcast analyst once told me jazz, classical and easy listening formats died because "radio likes easy money, and the easiest way to make the easiest money" is by appealing to the broadest demographic. But the film rests on a false premise: that young people are passionate, much less know, about jazz. The film's title is based on a composition by the late arranger and saxophonist Hank Levy other tunes performed in the film include Duke Ellington's "Caravan." They are played by an honors class jazz orchestra that includes the young drummer played by Miles Teller. It's about a music teacher and the young prodigy he psychologically and physically abuses.
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The movie "Whiplash," which opens Friday, is one of the best films of the year.
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