{"id":1148,"date":"2007-11-17T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T20:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2007-11-17T12:49:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T20:49:52","slug":"willis_conover_on_the_radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/11\/willis_conover_on_the_radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis Conover On The Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era when the  leadership of the United States all but ignores culture as a diplomatic tool and downgrades the Voice Of America, an hour with Willis Conover has a sharp poignancy. Conover, the VOA&#8217;s great jazz broadcaster for more than four decades, is the subject of a program airing tonight (November 17) at 11:05 EST on WFIU, 103.7 FM, in Bloomington, Indiana and tomorrow night at 10:00 EST on Michigan&#8217;s Blue Lake Public Radio. More important to <em>Rifftides <\/em>readers around the world, the program is permanently archived for online streaming.<br \/>\nHost and producer David Brent Johnson has been at work on the show for months. His meticulous research, knowledgeable music selection, canny interviewing and smooth production result in a valuable document of a man who for decades was the United States&#8217; most valuable cultural diplomat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Conover.jpg\" width=\"123\" height=\"82\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Willis Conover<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can hear <em>Conover&#8217;s Coming Over: Willis Conover and Jazz at the Voice of Ameri<\/em>ca by <a href=\"http:\/\/nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org\/2007\/11\/12\/conovers-comin-over-willis-conover-and-jazz-at-the-voice-of-america\/\"target=\"_blank\">going here<\/a>. The page carrying the streaming player also links to several <em>Rifftides<\/em> pieces about Conover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era when the leadership of the United States all but ignores culture as a diplomatic tool and downgrades the Voice Of America, an hour with Willis Conover has a sharp poignancy. Conover, the VOA&#8217;s great jazz broadcaster for more than four decades, is the subject of a program airing tonight (November 17) at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}