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I have been listening to Dick Buckley since 1955, except for the few years in the 60s when jazz was doing so poorly on radio that he was forced to announce “the world’s most beautiful music” on WAIT. Buckley plays artists from Armstrong and Morton to Coltrane and Mingus, and knows how to program so that the music connects.
Malatia seems to have a very strange idea of when the jazz audience is awake. Jazz From Lincoln Center has been moved to 5 AM (!) on Sunday. Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz is on at 10 AM on Sundays, and Buckley’s Sunday program has been moved from its previous 1 PM to 4 PM period to 11 to 2–obviously when all the jazz fans who have been out Saturday night (when Buckley does his other three hours) are there to listen. Buckley is constantly mentioning that people think he isn’t on anymore. After 2 on Sunday there is more news.
