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Encore: FGCU Jazz Combo Performs Live!

WGCU | By John Davis,

Published December 27, 2018 at 8:00 AM EST

The Florida Gulf Coast University Jazz Combo returns to our studios for a live on-air performance! Members of this quartet are considered some of the top musicians at FGCU’s Bower School of Music & the Arts.

We’re joined by FGCU’s Emmy nominated Director of Jazz Studies, Brandon Robertson, along with his students Isaiah Suriel on alto saxophone, Jose Cordero on flute and piano, Miguel Azcuy on percussion, Steven Giro on trumpet and Jonathan Taylor on bass.

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John Davis

John Davis has been a full-time Reporter/Producer for WGCU since 2009. He is the local host for NPRââââ

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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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