A Broad Spectrum

A Broad Spectrum A weekly Jazz radio show celebrating women composers and lyricists airing Sundays 3pm - 5pm EST on the HD2 Channel (Jazz and What's More) at www.wfdu.fm.

I’m thrilled to announce my debut on WFDU 89.1 FM hosting a weekly show every Sunday from 3PM to 5PM streaming on their HD2 channel, Jazz and What's More - just go to http://www.wfdu.fm and click on “Listen to HD2”, you’ll be given a player for your device and will hear the channel instantly. There's also a free app you can download for both iPhone and Android. The program is called A Broad Spectr

um and offers up an assortment of music by Women Who Inspire - Writers, Composers, Instrumentalists and Vocalists (and yes, there will be airplay of male artists too, in the Honorable Men-tion slot). Hope you’ll get a chance to tune in. If you would like to send promotional material for airplay on A Broad Spectrum, please mail to the address listed below:

Mary Foster Conklin
MockTurtle Music
PO Box 528, Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10011

or contact me via email at [email protected] . Digital files are welcome as long as you include a song list with complete writers' credits. Please bear in mind that the focus of my radio show is music written and/or composed by women - Instrumentalists and Vocalists both male and female are welcome. If you miss the live show, never fear - here's the link to the archives - http://wfdu2.streamrewind.com/

Shows are archived for two weeks, which you can hear by using the drop down menu.

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)This broadcast inclu...
07/21/2025

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)
This broadcast includes new releases from Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn and Allan Harris, with birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Carolyn Leonhart, Suzanne Pittson, Marina Albero, Iris Ornig and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

Thanks for tuning in to the show this afternoon. For those who missed the broadcast, go to the show page here: https://b...
07/20/2025

Thanks for tuning in to the show this afternoon. For those who missed the broadcast, go to the show page here: https://bit.ly/3S88l50
You’ll be able to listen anytime you wish for the next two weeks. There will also be a repeat broadcast on Tuesday at midday, following The Jazz Deli with Russ Kassoff.

1st HOUR
Henry Robinett — The Way You Look Tonight/Jazz Standards Vol. 1: Then (2020)/Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields/Nefertiti
Bobby Short — My Personal Property/Songs Of New York (1995)/Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields/Telarc
Claire Martin — I Feel A Song Coming On/Almost in Your Arms (2024)/Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh, George Oppenheimer/Stunt Records
Akua Dixon — The Sweetest Taboo/Akua’s Dance/Sade Adu, Martin Ditcham/Akua’s Music
Jimmy Scott — On Broadway/The Source/Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil/Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller/Atlantic
Lois Deloatch — Occassional Brilliance/Love Always (2024)/Lois Deloatch/Self Released
Mary Osborne — How High The Moon/A Girl And Her Guitar/Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton/Archive Music Revisited
Nicole Zuraitis — You Oughta Be In Pictures/Siren Songs Vol. 2 (2025)/Dana Suesse, Edward Heyman/La Reserve
Maria Muldaur feat. Taj Mahal — Gotta Have What It Takes/One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (2025)/Victoria Spivey, Harold Grey/Nola Blue
Jane Ira Bloom — Better Starlight/Songs In Space (2025)/Jane Ira Bloom/Outline Records
Jeffrey Gimble — In The Glow Of The Moonlight/Brand New Key (2025)/Meredith d’Ambrosio, Dena DeRose/Café Pacific
Marlena Shaw — Blue Moonlight/Benny Carter Songbook Vol II/Benny Carter, Dana Suesse/MusicMasters Records
Nicole Glover — March/Memories Dreams Reflections (2025)/Miki Yamanaka/Savant

2nd HOUR
Luciana Souza — At The Fair/Speaking In Tongues/Luciana Souza/Sunnyside
Cynthia Scott — The Man In the Street/Dream For One Bright World/Cynthia Scott/Ttocs
Samara Joy — Flor de Lis (Upside Down)/Single (Flor de Lis)/Djavan, Regina Wernick (Eng. Lyric)/Verve
The Empress — Instant Composure/Square One (2025)/Michael Lutzeier/Cellar Music Group
The Diva Jazz Orchestra feat. Carmen Bradford — How Do You Keep the Music Playing?/live from JALC Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola/Michel Legrand, Alan & Marilyn Bergman/DivaJazz
Sarah Wilson — Incandescence/Incandescence (2025)/Sarah Wilson/Brass Tonic Records
NYO Jazz with Sean Jones and Alicia Olatuja — Under the Moon Over The Sky-radio edit/Live In Johannesburg (2025)/ Angela Bofill, Haras Fyre/Carnegie Hall
Julia Hűlsmann Quartet — They Stumble, They Walk/Under The Surface (2025)/ Julia Hűlsmann/ECM
Allan Harris — With You I’m Born Again/She Walks In Beauty/The Poetry of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (2025)/David Shire, Carol Connors/Lord Byron/Blue Llama Records
Phoebe Snow — Isn’t It A Shame/Second Childhood/Phoebe Snow/Columbia
Vivien Garry Quintet — A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/Vivien Garry/PNR

Good morning to all on this hot and humid Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go ...
07/20/2025

Good morning to all on this hot and humid Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go seek out an air conditioned club for relief. The new program has been loaded to the HD2 channel and you can hear it live at 3:00pm EST at this link - https://wfdu.fm/
Go to "Select Station" to select "WFDU HD2" then click on “Listen” and you will hear the channel instantly.

Today's broadcast celebrates the 56th anniversary of the moon landing with celestial songs and new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Nicole Glover, Samara Joy and Sarah Wilson, plus birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dorothy Fields, Akua Dixon, Jimmy Scott, Mary Osborne, Luciana Souza, Cynthia Scott, Lauren Sevian, Carmen Bradford, Julia Hulsmann and Phoebe Snow, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear - see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman’s Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for tuning in.

A Broad Spectrum is a jazz-based mix of standards, blues, pop and originals composed and/or with lyrics by women - you'll hear both instrumentalists and vocalists (with airplay of male artists too, in the Honorable Men-tion slots)

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Nicole Glover, Sama...
07/19/2025

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Nicole Glover, Samara Joy and Sarah Wilson, with birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dorothy Fields, Akua Dixon, Jimmy Scott, Mary Osborne, Luciana Souza, Cynthia Scott, Lauren Sevian, Carmen Bradford, Julia Hulsmann and Phoebe Snow, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear - see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman’s Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for tuning in.

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)This broadcast inclu...
07/14/2025

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)
This broadcast includes new releases from Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trembley, Katie Thiroux, and Sinne Eeg, plus a single from Lakecia Benjamin, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Brandee Younger, Madeline Eastman, Susan Krebs, Caroline Davis, Nancy Erickson Lamont, Rhoda Scott, Natalie Cressman, Monika Ryan and Lezlie Harrison, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

Thanks for tuning in to the show this afternoon. For those who missed the broadcast, go to the show page here: https://b...
07/13/2025

Thanks for tuning in to the show this afternoon. For those who missed the broadcast, go to the show page here: https://bit.ly/3S88l50
You’ll be able to listen anytime you wish for the next two weeks. There will also be a repeat broadcast on Tuesday at midday, following The Jazz Deli with Russ Kassoff.

1st HOUR
T***s Thielemans — Strutting With Some Barbecue/Smooth and Easy/Lil Hardin Armstrong/Original Jazz Classics
Duchess — On the Sunny Side of the Street/Laughing At Life/Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields/Anzic
Wild Iris Brass Band — 9 to 5/Way Up (2025)/Dolly Parton/Ear Up
Hot Toddies Jazz Band — Exactly Like You/Live From Somewhere Nowhere (2025)/Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields/Prohibition Productions
Maria Muldaur — Funny Feathers (feat. Tuba Skinny)/One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (2025)/Victoria Spivey/Nola Blue
Carol Morgan — Night/Post Cool Vol. 1: The Night Shift (2017)/Carol Morgan/Self Released
Kieran Brown — You’re Gonna Hear From Me/Loving You (2025)/Andre Previn, Dory Langdon Previn/Cellar Music Group
Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano — Will You Love Me Tomorrow/I Want To Talk About You/Painting The Town (2025)/Carole King, Gerry Goffin/Billy Eckstine/Human Child Records
Dawn Clement — Outstretch/Delight (2025)/Dawn Clement/Origin
Carolyn Leonhart & Wayne Escoffery — Big Noise New York/Tides of Yesterday (2010)/ Marcelle Clements, Donald Fagen/Savant
Sumi Tonooka & The Alchemy Sound Project — For Stanley/Under The Surface (2025)/Sumi Tonooka/ARC

2nd HOUR
Peter Lin – AAPI Jazz Collective — Tank!/Identity (2025)/Yoko Kanno/Origin
Billy Eckstine & Count Basie — Don’t Cry Baby/Basie/Eckstine Inc./Saul Bernie, James P. Johnson, Stella Unger/Parlophone Records
Suzanne Pittson — We’re Having a Crisis (Crisis)/Out of the Hub: The Music of Freddie Hubbard/Freddie Hubbard, Suzanne Pittson/Vineland Records
Joni Mitchell — One Week Last Summer/Shine (2007)/Joni Mitchell/Hear Music
Anna Laura Quinn & Ed Barrett — Blue Motel Room/Just…Quinn & Barrett (2025)/Joni Mitchell/Self Released
Marina Albero — First Step Of The Journey/A Nomad Of Sound (2024)/Marina Albero/Self Released
Tessa Souter — Rayga’s Song (Gymnopedie No. 1)/Shadows & Silence-The Erik Satie Project (2025)/Erik Satie, Tessa Souter/Noanara Music
Iris Ornig — End of a Summer Night/Storyteller (2019)/Iris Ornig/Self released
Allan Harris — Autumn-Wild Geese/The Poetry Of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (2025)/Allan Harris, Mary Oliver/Blue Llama Records
Mavis Staples — We Go High/If All I Was Was Black (2017)/Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples/ANTI-Records
Vivien Garry Quintet — A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/Vivien Garry/PNR

Good morning to all on this humid overcast Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times. The...
07/13/2025

Good morning to all on this humid overcast Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times. The new program has been loaded to the HD2 channel and you can hear it live at 3:00pm EST at this link - https://wfdu.fm/
Go to "Select Station" to select "WFDU HD2" then click on “Listen” and you will hear the channel instantly.

Today's broadcast includes new releases from Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn and Allan Harris, with birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Carolyn Leonhart, Suzanne Pittson, Marina Albero, Iris Ornig and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear - see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman’s Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for tuning in.

A Broad Spectrum is a jazz-based mix of standards, blues, pop and originals composed and/or with lyrics by women - you'll hear both instrumentalists and vocalists (with airplay of male artists too, in the Honorable Men-tion slots)

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur,...
07/12/2025

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Wild Iris Brass Band, Maria Muldaur, Kieran Brown, Dawn Clement, Peter Lin, Anna Laura Quinn and Allan Harris, with birthday shoutouts to Mavis Staples, Carol Morgan, Carolyn Leonhart, Suzanne Pittson, Marina Albero and Iris Ornig and Honorable Man Billy Eckstine, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear - see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman’s Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for tuning in.

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)This broadcast inclu...
07/07/2025

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)
This broadcast includes new releases from The Beveled Edges, Benny Benack III, Sumi Tonooka, Tessa Souter, Jane Ira Bloom, The Hot Toddies Jazz Band and Victoria Cardona, with birthday shoutouts to Joan Whitney (Candy, Far Away Places), Gillian Margot, Sasha Berliner, Lauren Kinhan and Lisa Rich, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

Thanks for tuning in to the show this afternoon. For those who missed the broadcast, go to the show page here: https://b...
07/06/2025

Thanks for tuning in to the show this afternoon. For those who missed the broadcast, go to the show page here: https://bit.ly/3S88l50
You’ll be able to listen anytime you wish for the next two weeks. There will also be a repeat broadcast on Tuesday at midday, following The Jazz Deli with Russ Kassoff.

1st HOUR
Five Play — La Americana (Live)/Live At The Deer Head Inn (2015)/Tomoko Ohno/DeerHead Records
Louis Armstrong — Summer Song/This Is Jazz-Louis Armstrong Sings/Dave and Iola Brubeck/Sony
Janet Planet & John Harmon — Very Early/Last Call (2025)/Bill Evans, Carol Hall/Self Released
Jane Ira Bloom — Space Rangers/Songs In Space (2025)/Jane Ira Bloom/Outline Records
Victoria Cardona — Me Voy Pa La Playa/Que Paso (2025)/Victoria Cardona/Leggero Records
Madeline Eastman — Flor De Lis (Upside Down)/Mad About Madeline!/ Djavan and Regina Wernick (Eng. Lyric)/Mad-Kat Records
Brandee Younger — Surrender/Gadabout Season (2025)/Brandee Younger/Impulse!
Susan Krebs — Not To Worry/Little Did I Dream (2025)/Abbey Lincoln/Self Released
Mark Murphy — Witchcraft/Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman/Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh/Audiophile
Mimi Fox — America the Beautiful/This Bird Still Flies (2019)/ Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates/Origin
Dan Pugach Big Band — Travel/Bianca Reimagined: Music For Paws and Persistence (2024)/Nicole Zuraitis/Outside In
Alex Tremblay feat. Vanisha Gould — Scenic Route/People and Places (2025)/Vanisha Gould/La Reserve
Caroline Davis — City Flora/Portals, Volume 2:Returning (2024)/Caroline Davis/Intakt Records

2nd HOUR
Deanna Witkowski — Gjon Mili Jam Session/Force of Nature (2022)/Mary Lou Williams/MCG Jazz
Nancy Erickson Lamont — G ‘n’ K/Through the Passages (2024)/Nancy Erickson Lamont/Vital Flame Productions
Katie Thiroux — Hurry On Down/Always But Never Alone (2025)/Nellie Lutcher/BassKat Music
Rhoda Scott — City of the Rising Sun/Lady Allstars (2021)/ Lisa Cat-Berro/Sunset Records
Monika Ryan — Everything Is Possible/Sweetness (2025)/Monika Ryan/Self Released
Lezlie Harrison — People Make The World Go Round/Soul Book, Vol. 1 (2020)/Thomas Bell, Linda Creed/Pure Tones of Soul
Lakecia Benjamin — Noble Rise/Single (Noble Rise)(2025)/Lakecia Benjamin/Ropedope
Lena Horne — The Rules Of The Road/The Classic Lena Horne/Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh/RCA
Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen — Losing You/Shikiori (2025)/Sinne Eeg, Søren Sko/Stunt Records
Jennifer Wharton’s Bonegasm — Menina Sozinha/Grit & Grace (2023)/Natalie Cressman/Sunnyside
Ian Shaw feat. Claire Martin — Night Ride Home/Drawn To All Things/Joni Mitchell/Linn Records
Vivien Garry Quintet — A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/Vivien Garry/PNR

Good morning to all on this hot hazy Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times. The new p...
07/06/2025

Good morning to all on this hot hazy Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times. The new program has been loaded to the HD2 channel and you can hear it live at 3:00pm EST at this link - https://wfdu.fm/
Go to "Select Station" to select "WFDU HD2" then click on “Listen” and you will hear the channel instantly.

Today's broadcast includes new releases from Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trembley, Katie Thiroux, and Sinne Eeg, plus a single from Lakecia Benjamin, with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Brandee Younger, Madeline Eastman, Susan Krebs, Caroline Davis, Nancy Erickson Nancy Lamont, Rhoda Scott, Natalie Cressman, Monika Ryan and Lezlie Harrison, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear - see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman’s Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for tuning in.

A Broad Spectrum is a jazz-based mix of standards, blues, pop and originals composed and/or with lyrics by women - you'll hear both instrumentalists and vocalists (with airplay of male artists too, in the Honorable Men-tion slots)

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trem...
07/05/2025

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Janet Planet, Susan Krebs, Alex Trembley, Katie Thiroux, Sinne Eeg plus a single from Lakecia Benjamin with birthday shoutouts to Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Madeline Eastman, Susan Krebs, Caroline Davis, Nancy Erickson Nancy Lamont, Rhoda Scott, Monika Ryan and Lezlie Harrison, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear - see them live, buy their music so they can continue to comfort, distract, provoke and remind the world that A Woman’s Place is in the Groove. Many thanks for tuning in.

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I’m thrilled to announce my debut on WFDU 89.1 FM hosting a weekly show every Sunday from 3PM to 7PM streaming on their HD2 channel, Jazz and What's More - just go to http://www.wfdu.fm and click on “Listen to HD2”, you’ll be given a player for your device and will hear the channel instantly. There's also a free app you can download for both iPhone and Android. The program is called A Broad Spectrum and offers up an assortment of music by Women Who Inspire - Writers, Composers, Instrumentalists and Vocalists (and yes, there will be airplay of male artists too, in the Honorable Men-tion slot). Hope you’ll get a chance to tune in. If you would like to send promotional material for airplay on A Broad Spectrum, please mail to the address listed below: Mary Foster Conklin MockTurtle Music PO Box 528, Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113 or contact me via email at [email protected] . Digital files are welcome as long as you include a song list with complete writers' credits. Please bear in mind that the focus of my radio show is music written and/or composed by women - Instrumentalists and Vocalists both male and female are welcome. If you miss the live show, never fear - here's the link to the archives - http://wfdu2.streamrewind.com/ Shows are archived for two weeks, which you can hear by using the drop down menu.