Jazz Journalists Association - Member public profile

First name

Tim

Last name

Masters

photo/avatar

City

Bethesda

Country

United States

I am a jazz

writer
audio producer
other
radio/tv program host/producer

"Other" means. . .

Consultant & Lecturer (Music, Jazz)

website/blog URL 1

wpfw.org

website/blog URL 2

facebook.com/wpfwjazzmasters

'Friend' me on Facebook at:

facebook.com/wpfwjazzmasters

Follow me on Twitter at:

@wpfwjazzmasters

Other key Publications/Productions

Host/Producer, Jazz Masters (WPFW 89.3 FM / WPFW.org)

City Paper of Washington, DC (freelance)

My interests in jazz are:

My primary interest in jazz as both a broadcaster and writer is to share my love of jazz with a wider audience and to help preserve the legacy of the music, as well as the artists who create and perform it. I continually strive to show the connections that exist between all forms of music, and hope to introduce both long-standing jazz lovers and newcomers to the music that there is "a type of jazz for them." I have also spent a great deal of time working to document and preserve the history of the music for this and future generations through scholarly research, interviews, and community outreach.

More about what I do:

I have hosted and produced jazz programming since 1978, first at WERS 88.9 FM in Boston, MA, then, from 1982 to 1997 at WDCU 90.1 FM (Jazz 90) in Washington, DC. I spent a few years with WRNR 103.1 FM in Annapolis, MD, and since 2007 with WPFW 89.3 FM (WPFW.org). My program is Jazz Masters and airs Thursday evenings from 7 to 10pm ET.

I have also worked as a researcher/interviewer for the Time-Life "Giants of Jazz" series and have written freelance articles on jazz and blues for Washington's City Paper.

I support the JJA because

I value any organization that helps to spread the word about jazz and believe that by working together we can educate, inform, and "open ears" to this valuable art form. I also think it is tremendously important to keep the music and its practitioners alive for this and future generations...so everyone will know and appreciated the contributions of names like Armstrong, Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Waller, Parker and others...AND ALSO...lesser known names (to the masses) like Teagarden, Garner, Russell, Allen, Cheatham, etc.

Tim Masters

Member profile details