All Night Jazz

Jazz on WUSF is moving to Arts Axis Florida come Monday. We celebrate some of the voices who brought it to listeners over the years.

Starting Oct. 31, the All Night Jazz format will move to the digital Arts Axis Florida platform.

George Geiger and friend Michael Scott started "Jazz Night" on WUSF in 1966 in the basement of the USF library.

Mike Cornette has been running All Night Jazz for the last five years. But his most recent stop at WUSF was a homecoming. He was our jazz director in the 1970s, and "re-appeared" as an announcer several times through the years.

Mike Cornette, WUSF All Night Jazz director, fondly remembers Chick Corea, renowned jazz keyboardist and Clearwater resident who touched the life of Cornette and countless others. Corea died at age 79.

Dozens of notable jazz musicians died this year, many from COVID-19. Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead remembers some of the legends lost, including Bucky Pizzarelli, Ellis Marsalis and Jimmy Heath.

When Herb Snitzer was photo editor for the jazz magazine, Metronome, in the early 1960's, he occasionally got complaints from subscribers. Why, they…