Jazz PHX’s Blaise Lantana Interviews Jazz Icon George Benson
10-time Grammy-winner and NEA Jazz Master George Benson sat down with KJZZ Music Director Blaise Lantana to talk about his latest album, Dreams Do Come True: When George Benson Meets Robert Farnon. The album was actually recorded in 1989 and only recently rediscovered!
Know an experienced events manager? KJZZ and KBACH are hiring a person to be responsible for organizing, planning, and fully executing all aspects of fundraising and donor appreciation events through best practices and use of CRM and event software.
That’s right! Be part of our Movie Club when you give $10/month or more to KJZZ or KBACH. Then you can enter special drawings to attend film screenings at local theaters, often before they’re released to the general public!
We recently gave away tickets for Touch and Fly Me to the Moon.
Did you know August is National Make a Will Month?
You already make a difference in our mission. What if you could continue that for many years to come? A will or trust can ensure that your contributions will benefit the people and causes you love.
Ticket Giveaway: Southwest Shakespeare’s The School For Lies
Running August 10 & 11, it’s back by popular demand! It’s 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of Célimène, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue that she’s being sued for it. Surrounded by shallow suitors, whom she lives off of without surrendering to, Célimène has managed to evade love since her beloved husband died — until today when Frank appears.
With a cast of colorful characters and a rollercoaster ride of verbal acrobatics and clever word play, this wild farce is sure to leave you laughing out loud. The cast is “..luminous…hilarious…truly inspired.”
Ticket Giveaway: Buddy Guy’s Damn Right Encore! Tour
Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound.
He has received 8 Grammy Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”