ENCORE: FGCU's Jazz Quartet Live in Studio

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Mike Kiniry

Published August 30, 2018 at 11:40 AM EDT

We’re re-airing an hour of live music from our performance studio with FGCU’s Jazz Quartet which originally aired in January. If you like live jazz music on the radio, mark your calendar for Thursday, October 4th when we’ll be having another group of jazz musicians from FGCU’s music program back on the show for another hour of live tunes.

We were joined by Florida Gulf Coast University’s Director of Jazz Studies, Brandon Robertson, and the school’s jazz quartet, which featured Alec Prorock on trumpet, Jonathan Ingram on bass, Joel Law on piano, and Miguel Azcuy on drums. We met the musicians and learned about their backgrounds and side projects, and explored where jazz fits into the modern music scene.

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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