jazz Archives - WORT 89.9 FM

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Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Music Assistant: Aaron Scholz – musicass@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

Tandem Press Friday Jazz Series — Contemporary Jazz Ensemble

August 30, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us at Tandem Press for the annual Friday Jazz Series featuring students from the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music’s Jazz Studies Program, led by Johannes Wallmann, the John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies. The 2018-2019 series, beginning on October 5, 2018, includes three concerts during the fall season and three in […]

Brennan Connors & Stray Passage at the Mason Lounge

March 13, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Brennan Connors & Stray Passage is an Experimental/Free Jazz trio led by saxophonist Brennan Connors. He is joined by Brian Grimm playing contra-cello and electric bass and Geoff Brady playing drums and percussion. The band is primarily an improvising unit encompassing a broad range of textures, grooves, and intensity levels. We also perform some original […]

Podcast: People-to-people contact with bassist Nick Moran

March 7, 2019 by Tone Madison

If you go out to see live music in Madison with any kind of frequency, it’s pretty impossible not to see Nick Moran playing bass. His projects over the years have included the Afro-Peruvian jazz quartet Golpe Tierra, the New Breed Jazz Jam on Tuesday nights at the North Street Cabaret, Phat Phunktion, MadiSalsa, and […]

Hot Charts: New Discs with a Difference!!

March 1, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

Check out this week’s charts!! Also, on Friday March 1st, Beat Orgy A Go-Go presents a special pledge program at 8pm. Host Bill The Walkin’ Dr.,in an effort to boost ratings, has coerced The Other Mr. S. into co-hosting the show. Please call 608-256-2001 to show your support or pledge securely online. As an incentive […]

Tandem Press Friday Jazz Series — Jazz Standards Ensemble

August 30, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Marilyn Fisher & Paul Hastil @ Bandung

January 28, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Jazz vocalist/percussionist, Marilyn Fisher and pianist, Paul Hastil perform at Bandung Indonesian restaurant/The Nutty Bar at 600 E Williamson Street on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of every month, from 7 – 9 pm. No cover!

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