When Tony Frank isn't working the door at The Shelter Cocktail Lounge or playing a mean trumpet at the Armitage Wine Lounge and Caf, he runs tucsonjazzradio.org, an Internet radio station dedicated to exposing local and national jazz talent to the online world.
Frank, 37, has been a serious fan of jazz music since stumbling across his friend's father's vinyl collection -- with its Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck albums -- as a teen in Detroit. He first got the idea for Tucson Jazz Radio after he was let go as a DJ from KUAZ in 2003.
Frank had worked as an afternoon jockey for three years before management decided to limit that station's jazz broadcasts and gave him the boot.
He started investigating his online options. He gathered some investors, bought equipment, computer hardware, software, a server provider, microphones. It wasn't long before Tucson Jazz Radio was up and running.
Frank, 37, has been a serious fan of jazz music since stumbling across his friend's father's vinyl collection -- with its Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck albums -- as a teen in Detroit. He first got the idea for Tucson Jazz Radio after he was let go as a DJ from KUAZ in 2003.
Frank had worked as an afternoon jockey for three years before management decided to limit that station's jazz broadcasts and gave him the boot.
He started investigating his online options. He gathered some investors, bought equipment, computer hardware, software, a server provider, microphones. It wasn't long before Tucson Jazz Radio was up and running.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
