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WBGO s Gary Walker, winner of the Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Achievement in Broadcasting.
Longtime WBGO host and music director Gary Walker and the podcast Jazz United are among the winners of the 2021 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.
They join bassist Ron Carter, honored for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz, and
Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead, recipient of Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism, along with others recognized in a total of 47 categories.
Gary Walker won the Marian McPartland-Willis Conover Award for Career Achievement in Broadcasting, which has also been bestowed on WBGO’s Rhonda Hamilton and Michael Bourne. Jazz United, hosted by Greg Bryant and Nate Chinen, won Podcast of the Year in its first year of eligibility; last year the award went to WBGO’s The Checkout, produced and hosted by Simon Rentner.
Blake Mills and Pino Palladino
If you ve been following Jazz United for any length of time, chances are good that you are already familiar with The Checkout a long-running WBGO podcast and radio program hosted by Simon Rentner, who also produces the show. Every week, Simon turns the spotlight to an artist or subject from what he calls the other side of jazz, exploring new hybrids and swirling currents around the world.
So this week, we re mixing things up a bit with a podcast episode swap rolling out a recent edition of The Checkout through our Jazz United feed.
We handpicked a good one, featuring electric bass extraordinaire Pino Palladino and multi-instrumentalist and producer Blake Mills. They open up with Simon about how they first met, on a session with John Legend; how the cloistered environment of the recording studio informed the palette of their new album,
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