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David Basse

Member profile details

Membership level

Jazz Journalist (professional- voting member)

First name

David

Last name

Basse

photo/avatar

City

Kansas City

Country

I am a jazz

writer
photographer
audio producer
other
radio/tv program host/producer

"Other" means. . .

commentator, drummer, and vocalist

website/blog URL 1

http://davidbasse.com

website/blog URL 2

http://kansaspublicradio.org

'Friend' me on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/david.basse.14/

Follow me on Twitter at:

@jazzbasse

View my LinkedIn Profile at:

http://linkedin.com/davidbasse

I am the author/producer of

Jazz with David Basse, Jazz Scene on KPR

Available at (URL or ISBN #1)

http://davidbasse.com

I am also the author/ producer of:

Editor - JAM Magazine

Available at (URL or ISBN #2)

http://www.kcjazzambassadors.org/blog

Other key Publications/Productions

http://jazz.org/swingU

My interests in jazz are:

The history that is unique to jazz. The way that jazz people view the world and translate that unique view into music.

More about what I do:

I became a professional musician in 1969. I was 14-years-old. I came to jazz 5 years later, when I landed in Kansas City, following 2 years of rough and tumble touring. I began making radio around the turn of the century. On Jazz with David Basse, I have created thousands of hours of jazz, a long-form-continuing-history of the music.

I support the JJA because

At 56-years-old, I realized that jazz really was a hard life, as folks had always told me. I enrolled in college and graduated in 2018 with a degree in Communications and a minor in writing. Now,I play the gigs I choose to play, and I write and create radio 7 days a week. I feel this organization is my new found home.