Dominic Endicott believes we can redraw our maps for the 21st century. He has a vision for how knowledge-based ecosystems can create the proliferation of entrepreneurship, jobs, real estate and services in demand for a wider spectrum of rural and urban communities. He spoke with us to talk about his vision as expressed in ‘Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as talent magnets’ which he co-authored with David J. Staley of Ohio State University. Dominic is a partner at NorthStar Ventures an...
Dec 29, 2023•55 min•Season 8Ep. 133
To spend some time re-imagining the story of what came well before us on the North American continent has importance for understanding our future path towards a more equitable and just society. Our modern obsession with consumerism and modernity, emphasizing technology to solve our key issues isn’t working because people, not machines are at the core of our solutions. Our discussion with award-winning documentarian Ted Timreck invites you, our listener, to more closely examine epigenetics in a r...
Sep 02, 2023•36 min•Season 7Ep. 132
Three for the Price of One: We had to take a brief break for summer vacation. So M the Media Project is giving you three for the price of one! Joan’s two part interview with our generation’s progenitor of the great American Songbook, none other than Michael Feinstein plus we feature Claire Daly, all in the latest Jazz Room.
Sep 02, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 6Ep. 105
Authors John DiCicco, Ph.D. and Robert Cuomo, Ph.D. of ‘The Authentic Leader’ have shared their wealth of experience honed in business ownership and academia in order to complete a crusade of sorts. A crusade to make change where it counts. Engage with The Authentic Leader John and Bob will join Startup Rutland (anticipated fall 2023) in developing a program to engage emerging business leaders to better prepare them for the moral hazards sometimes inherent in complex business models. They are at...
Jun 30, 2023•35 min•Season 7Ep. 131
From her 2021 Interview from the summer phenomenon known as the Newport Jazz Festival, host Joan Watson Jones spoke with the fantastic alto saxophonist Tia Fuller. Enjoy as you imagine the Newport bridge view, the sea salt air and the magic of thousands of friends gathering to hear their favorite jazz artists. Click here to learn more from Tia Fuller
Jun 30, 2023•31 min•Season 6Ep. 104
Host Scott M. Graves sat down with Dan Cummings and old pal Steven Harnois from PermaGrin, the fantasmic music project that originated as a pandemic project which has resulted in the album, ‘Ode to Entropy. We entice you to listen in with four aural excerpts from said album. From the moment I heard this album I was enthralled and wrote a friend, ‘Brah, it’s like these dudes went to sleep with Hot Rats and The Grand Wazoo on repeat and then woke up the next day to the rest of their lives…’ We hop...
Jun 22, 2023•37 min•Season 6Ep. 130
I spoke with Ryan Munn, tech professional and devotee to trends in emerging technology about what potential we have in northern New England, particularly Vermont-centric possibilities in industries such as financial services, building materials, renewable energy and climate tech. Ryan is a resident of White River Junction, VT and works throughout the central VT region. Garner ideas and reach out to us and let us know your new ideas. Join the conversation in our comments section. Click here to fi...
Jun 17, 2023•37 min•Season 6Ep. 129
In Part 2 of this feature Eddie tells us about the many musicians he has collaborated with through the years to make his music not just Latin and not just Jazz but his own brand and style. He also shares stories about his performances across the globe. Learn more about Eddie Palmieri at www.palmierimusic.com
Jun 17, 2023•32 min
When is it useful to study an outlier? While we may find phenomena that represent an extreme less useful at times, there are times that discounting an outlier would prevent us from a highly valuable opportunity to explore, to discover and to learn. Dr. John Schlichtman takes outliers seriously. When he first came across the city of High Point, NC two decades ago, he had to see it for himself. Thus began a near two decades relationship John has cultivated with the people and places in High Point,...
Jun 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 128
We have a spirited conversation with Latin Jazz Legend Eddie Palmieri. In Part One, of this feature he tells about his early beginnings and about his brother Charlie Palmieri getting him started in music. He also tells us who were his major influences in Jazz. Learn more about Eddie Palmieri at www.palmierimusic.com
Jun 08, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 102
We recently hosted Vermont Small Business Development Center’s ‘She Means Business’ event for women in business at our headquarters The Hub CoWorks in downtown Rutland, VT. THis event hosted women business leaders, entrepreneurs in the making, banking professionals and other concerned stakeholders who wish to advance the work women are doing in our region to build our economy. We garnered perspectives from a host of attendees including Sarah Nadler, newly appointed Community Development Speciali...
Jun 02, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 127
Another in the series "Kitchen Table Chats" from Studio 952 in New York City. We talk with Vocalist Judi Silvano. She talks about her CD "Women's Work" . Judi talks about her husband Saxophonist, Joe Lovano, improvisation and personal style in jazz. Learn more about Judy at judisilvano.com.
Jun 02, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 101
We met with Orchestra Leader/Composer Maria Schneider at the Newport Jazz Festival. This show is a bit different as per Maria’s request she asked I play 30 seconds of music and one full composition. As you listen to this interview she talks not only about creating her music, but defending her copyrights of her work in this world of free music streaming and music distributors charging artist exorbitant fees for their use digitally. Click to learn more about Maria...
May 25, 2023•30 min
When Al Wakefield, Bob Harnish, Barbara Pulling and Bill Cohen set out to encourage the 247 Vermont cities and towns to adopt their Declaration of Inclusion the goal was rooted in economics, class and above all doing what’s right by people. ‘Vermont has started to see people moving here,’ said Wakefield during this episode, ‘but (sic) other young people have been leaving and they’re not coming back.’ This draws on what many of us in economic development already know. People of all ages and backg...
May 23, 2023•40 min•Season 6Ep. 126
This month we present two interviews that take you behind the scenes in the music business. Meet Artist Manager Judith Humenick and Jon Catherwood-Ginn, program director for the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech. Judith Humenick is from Ottawa, Canada. She an Artist Manager who was at the Newport Jazz Festival representing The Royal Bopsters behind the scenes. She talks about a few of the artists she manages and you’ll hear a bit of their music. Learn more about Judith We met Jon Catherwoord-Gin...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 99
In this AWHY? Podcast Scott is joined by two new friends made since relocating to Vermont in December 2022. Bill Ramage is a professor emeritus of Art, Castleton University and founder 77Art, established to help affect Rutland’s well-being in preparation for what he believes could be a post-retail economy. His collections can be found in, among other places, The Williams College Museum of Art; The Wexner Museum, Ohio State University and Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art (NNEMoCA),...
May 11, 2023•49 min•Season 6Ep. 125
Meet saxophonist, Stan Chovnic and pianist, Linda Presgrave. Stan talks about his CD “ Love Vibrations for Planet Earth”. Learn more about Stand and Linda at Metropolitan Records - An independent jazz record label located in NYC (metropolitanrecordsnyc.com)
May 11, 2023•31 min•Season 5Ep. 98
This month we pay homage in memory of Jazz Legend, Pianist Ahmad Jamal. This interview at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2010 was my very first interview with a major artist! It was loads of fun to meet someone I had listened to and admired since I was a teen. In part 1 he talks about his latest CD "A Quiet Time" and the use of his own compositions. Learn more about Ahmad Jamal at https://www.ahmadjamal.com (updated since this interview) In Part II Jamal gives advice to Jazz musicians as to how to...
Apr 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 97
Devon Neary is the Executive Director of the Rutland Regional Planning Commision (RRPC) of Rutland County, VT USA. We spoke about the need to orchestrate the viable connective opportunities between rural towns for solutions in infrastructure, financing, technology, broadband access and new business. Devon kindly spoke to the ways his organization is helping project management for towns without such capacity, for stewarding small towns from a bottom up rather than top down approach to capital and...
Apr 13, 2023•55 min•Season 6Ep. 124
This is a special show as it’s one of our first with half hour features. Pianist Frank Wilkins joined us in the studio with his keyboard to play live , talk about his projects at the time and our first project together. Yes, we even jammed a bit together. While you listen you’ll hear about the many well known, and up and coming artists at that time. Learn more about Frank at WeJazzUp (bandvista.com) .
Apr 13, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 96
In today's audio essay we're focused on Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur, incubator director and community developer Scott M. Graves is pondering the future, more specifically how we build a better one. 'Could we create a great tipping point where a society, devoid of the means for cultivating its great creative class warriors, cease to provide the know-how to create more ‘tech’ to feed the AI revolution. How Ironic.' 'Revolution? Or de-volution. It’s for us to decide.' About Scott Scott M....
Mar 30, 2023•6 min•Season 6Ep. 123
Meet pianist Bertha Hope . She talks about her husband Elmo Hope and her CD “Nothing But Love” featuring drummer Jimmy Cobb as part of her ensemble. For more information Bertha Hope’s Biography (thehistorymakers.org) This show we remember pianist, Onaje Allan Gumbs . We chat about his CD “Sack Full of Dreams” and his experiences working with jazz legends during his long musical career. Sadly, Onaje passed away in April of 2020. Learn more at Onaje Allan Gumbs, Jazz Arts – Onaje – New York, New Y...
Mar 30, 2023•58 min•Season 5Ep. 94
Nattie Hussey is Director of Business Acceleration for the Brattleboro (VT) Development Credit Corporation. The organization has participated has recently worked with the Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) to develop its programming targeting the development of rural Windham county’s business ecosystem. Nattie is no stranger to small business development as both his parents and his grandfather owned a multiplicity of small businesses over the decades. Nattie shares the idea with our host that cre...
Mar 16, 2023•54 min•Season 6Ep. 122
We talk with drummer William Hooker. He came to visit us at Studio 952 in NYC for one of our Kitchen Table Chats. Not your typical drummer he describes his presentations as an installation and experimental. Listen to his vision for performing drums and be amazed. Learn more by clicking here.
Mar 16, 2023•31 min•Season 6Ep. 93
Evolve Rutland is focused on an effort to recognize exceptional business leadership with across the gender spectrum. The organization, now re-energizing following the global health crisis, was formed when women in the Rutland (VT) regional business community saw a need to recognize women in leadership while also encouraging more entrepreneurship and leadership of organizations by women. We spoke with Kiki McShane, founder of FarVision Consulting regarding Evolve Rutland’s current efforts and why...
Mar 09, 2023•29 min•Season 6Ep. 121
Meet vocalist, Jackie Lennon who is president of the non-profit organization International Women in Jazz. Jackie and I talk about IWJ, it’s purpose and various projects they plan for members and those who love Jazz. Learn about IWJ at www.internationalwomeninjazz.org .
Mar 09, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 92
The Entrepreneurial Legal Lab is a new resource that, when coupled with other offerings unique to the Green Mountain state, makes Vermont ever friendlier to those who wish to deliver innovation to the economic ecosystem from the great state of Vermont. Learn more about VLS's Entrepreneurial Legal Lab or schedule a referral We discussed the program within a greater discussion regarding the challenges of small businesspeople in determining when and how to engage an attorney or navigate a legal rel...
Mar 02, 2023•51 min•Season 6Ep. 120
We talk with Todd Bryant Weeks. We had a conversation about his best selling Biography about Trumpet player "Hot Lips" Page titled “ Luck’s in My Corner” You may find Todd's book at Amazon.com.
Mar 02, 2023•32 min•Season 6Ep. 91
Jeff Dejarnette came to entrepreneurship the way many in a place as special as Vermont often do. A combination of meeting practical needs with work that benefits both team and town while building value. Key community assets brought together Jeff, his future team and mentors like long-time business innovator Rick Gile. Assets like the MINT Makerspace and StartUp Rutland at The Hub. Click here to learn more about the MINT Cick here to find out more about The Hub Tacitly was launched by Jeff with f...
Feb 16, 2023•52 min•Season 6Ep. 119
On this episode of The Jazz Room we meet, drummer Bruce Jackson. We chat about his CD "Don't Step on Your Dreams" Bruce talks about being a Bandleader and the emotions that go into creating a CD. Also we talk about our mutual experiences with Singing legend Joyce Bryant.
Feb 16, 2023•32 min•Season 6Ep. 90
