A Follow Up to the Inauguration with Brian Clardy
ListenMurray, KY – Murray State Professor and WKMS comentator Brian Clardy attended President Obama's inauguration and also took an audio recorder to document his experience. Chad Lampe speaks with Dr....
View ArticleSinger-Songwriter Debora Iyall Talks Life and Career on Café Jazz
This is the extended, un-cut version of the interview. A shorter version of this interview aired on Café Jazz Thursday, March 8, 2012.
View ArticleThe Joys of International Travel
There’s never a bad time to travel, but the summer is a good time to start! Commentator and History Professor Dr. Brian Clardy reflects on the the joys of international travel and recommends Murray...
View ArticleGood Read: I Am Not The Same Girl: Renewed by Stacy Lattisaw Jackson
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View ArticleArchives: Commentary - Von Freeman and the Definition of Celebrity
RIP Von Freeman, Chicago jazz legend, who passed away at 88 today. (Article from Chicago Tribune). We pulled this commentary from the archives by Cafe Jazz host Brian Clardy, recorded in 2007.Earl...
View ArticleCommentary: If I Were In Danville...
We’re gearing up to air special live NPR coverage of the Vice Presidential Debate from Center College in Danville, Kentucky Thursday night. Commentator and History Professor Dr. Brian Clardy imagines...
View ArticleCommentary: Open Letter Candidates on Foreign Policy
We’re gearing up to air special live NPR coverage of the Second Presidential Debate, from Hofstra University in New York, tonight. Commentator and History Professor Dr. Brian Clardy writes an open...
View ArticleCommentary: Remembering George McGovern
Tom Brokaw once called him “one of the country’s most decent and thoughtful public servants.” Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern passed away at the age of 90 yesterday....
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Commentary: The Necessity of a 2nd Madrid Conference
Enlarge imageListenThe Madrid Conference of 1991 was an attempt by the international community to start a peace process through negotiations involving Israel, Palestine, and neighboring Arab countries....
View ArticleA Cafe Jazz Conversation with Pianist Taylor Eigsti
Café Jazz host Dr. Brian Clardy recently spoke with jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti, for A Café Jazz Christmas with Brian Clardy(aired: 12/19 at 9 p.m.). They talk about Taylor's influences, memories of...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Kwanzaa
Click here to download the mp3.Recorded in December 2007Since its creation in 1966, African Americans have celebrated their cultural heritage with the celebration of Kwanzaa, which derives from Swahili...
View ArticlePianist and Composer Kelly Brand on Cafe Jazz
Chicago area pianist, composer, and band leader Kelly Brand has been on the music scene for well over a decade and a half entertaining jazz lovers with her innovative compositions and arrangements. Her...
View ArticleJazz Vocalist, Artist Solitaire Miles on Cafe Jazz
Classically trained vocalist Solitaire Miles has the range and sound that echoes the musings of jazz singer Anita O'Day and Ella Fitzgerald, and opera singer Fredericka Van Staad. Her brilliantly...
View ArticleRemembering Chicago Jazz Icon Franz Jackson
One of the great music innovators in the second half of the Twentieth Century, and the formative years of the Twenty-First, was the Chicago based iconic artist Franz Jackson. Having performed with...
View ArticleFrom the Archive: Remembering Jazz Pianist Mulgrew Miller
Jazz pianist and educator Mulgrew Miller passed away today at the age of 57. He was said to be a leader among contemporary jazz pianists. In this commentary recorded in 2007, Dr. Brian Clardy, Murray...
View Article50 Years Later: The Assassination of Medgar Evers
Today marks 50 years since civil rights activist Medgar Evers was gunned down in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. His murder and the subsequent trial...
View Article50 Years Later: Reflections on President Kennedy's Berlin Speech
On this day 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy gave his famous "ich bin ein Berliner" speech to West Berlin, underlying support for the West 22 months after Soviet-supported East Germany erected...
View Article50 Years Later: The Cultural Significance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I...
On this day 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd of over 200,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March...
View Article50 Years Later: September Mourn, The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
50 years ago this Sunday, an explosion at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama killed four little girls in an act of racially motivated terrorism, marking a turning point in the 1960s...
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