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...
10/06/2025

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)

This broadcast includes new releases from Heather McKay, Ledisi, Lizzy & The Triggermen, Kat Ellis and Carmen Staaf, with birthday shoutouts to feminist historian/producer Rosetta Reitz, Koko Taylor, Rebecca Kilgore, Norma Winstone and Janet Planet, 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...
10/05/2025

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
Terri Lyne Carrington — Wind Flower/New Standards, Vol. 1 (2022)/ Sara Cassey/Candid
Ann Richards & Stan Kenton — My Kinda Love/Two Much!/ Louis Alter, Jo Trent/Capitol
Alexa Tarantino — Back In Action/The Roar and the Whisper (2025)/Alexa Tarantino/Blue Engine Records
Ledisi — What A Difference A Day Makes/For Dinah (2025)/ Maria Grever, Stanley Adams/Candid
Nicholas Bearde — Funny (Not Much)/I Remember You: The Music of Nat King Cole (2019)/Hughie Prince, Bob Merrill, Marcia Neil and Philip Broughton/Right Groove Rekkids
Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows — Little Song/Heartland Radio (2024)/Nadje Noordhuis/SoundSpore
Mark Winkler — The Devil Don’t Want A Saint/Hold On (2025)/Marilyn Harris, Mark Winkler/Café Pacific
Nancy Newman — Once In A Dream/Dream (2025)/Jennifer Scott/Self Released
Rin Seo Collective — City Suite I. The Big Apple/City Suite (2025)/Cellar Music
Carmen Lundy — Afterglow/Code Noir (2017)/Carmen Lundy/Afrasia
Carmen Staaf — Boiling Point/Sounding Line (2025)/Carmen Staaf/Sunnyside

2nd HOUR
Sharel Cassity — Magnetism/Gratitude (2025)/Sharel Cassity/Sunnyside
Shout Section Big Band feat. Tatum Langley — That’s My Style/Tatum’s Swingin’ Session/Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh/Self Released
Emily Takahashi — Monkfish M1/Cenozoic Dreams (2021)/Emily Takahashi/Self Released
Lonnie Plaxico feat. Camille Thurman — I Can’t Help It/Radiance (2025)/Stevie Wonder, Susaye Greene/Night Is Alive
Lauren White — It Isn’t So Good/Single (It Isn’t So Good)(2024)/Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman/Café Pacific
Heather McKay — Lucini In The Park/Life Got In the Way (2025)/Heather McKay/Self Released
Airmen Of Note — Gracias A La Vida/Around The Horn (2025)/Violeta Parra/USAF
Carmen Bradford with the Compass Jazz Orchestra — Weep No More/Carmen Sings Carmen: Echoes of Carmen McRae (2025)/Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck/Artist Alliance
Hyuna Park — The Stars Fell on Seoul/Her Morning Waltz (2019)/Hyuna Park/Internova
Sarah Elizabeth Charles — Angel Spark/Dawn (2025)/Sarah Elizabeth Charles/Stretch/Ropedope
Nancy Harrow — Life Is Short/Second Thoughts (2024)/Nancy Harrow/Self Released
Carolina Calvache Feat. Sara Serpa — Hope/Vida Profunda (2020)/ Carolina Calvache, James Weldon Johnson/Sunnyside
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 balmy Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go seek out...
10/05/2025

Good morning to all on this balmy Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go seek out a dark club or an outdoor concert for distraction while the weather allows. 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 Alexa Tarantino, Nancy Newman, Rin Seo Collective, Shout Section Big Band, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles, with birthday shoutouts to Ann Richards, Nicholas Bearde, Patrice Rushin, Emily Takahashi, Lauren White, Hyuna Park, Nancy Harrow and Carolina Calvache, 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 Alexa Tarantino, Nancy Newman, Rin S...
10/04/2025

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Alexa Tarantino, Nancy Newman, Rin Seo Collective, Shout Section Big Band, and Sarah Elizabeth Charles, with birthday shoutouts to Ann Richards, Nicholas Bearde, Patrice Rushin, Emily Takahashi, Lauren White, Hyuna Park, Nancy Harro and Carolina Calvache, 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...
09/29/2025

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)
This broadcast includes new releases from The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band, Carmen Bradford, Michika Fukumori, Jonathan Karrant and Franck Amsallem, with birthday shoutouts to Jazz Foremother Lovie Austin, Vi Redd, Marlena Shaw, Emily Remler, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton and Wesla Whitfield, among others, with remembrances for Joyce Breach and Akiko Tsuruga. 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...
09/28/2025

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
Lil Hardin — Original Boogie/Boogie Blues-Women Sing and Play the Blues/Lil Hardin/Rosetta Records
Dinah Washington — Mellow Mama Blues/Wise Women Blues/Jessie Mae Robinson/Rosetta Records
Dorothy Donegan — Kilroy Was Here/Dorothy Romps/Dorothy Donegan/Rosetta Records
Gladys Bentley — Wild Geese Blues/ Mean Mothers: Independent Women’s Blues Vol. 1/John Louis/Rosetta Records
Heather McKay — You Make Me Smile/Life Got In the Way (2025)/Heather McKay/Self Released
Jamile — Another Day in the Mind/Pursuit of a Pulse (2025)/Jamile/Cellar Music Group
Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller — Play Money/Parlour Game (2019)/Jenny Scheinman/Royal Potato Family
Ledisi — If I Never Get To Heaven/For Dinah (2025)/ Dinah Washington, Juanita Hill/Candid
Koko Taylor — Spellbound/Force Of Nature/Koko Taylor/Alligator Records
Michika Fukumori — Port (The Departure)/Eternity And A Day (2025)/Michika Fukumori/Summit
Lizzy & The Triggermen — Outta Your League/Live At Joe’s Pub (2025)/Elizabeth Shapiro/Self Released
Nicolas Payton — Unconditional Love/ Triune-(2025)/Geri Allen/Smoke Sessions Records

2nd HOUR
Andrea Brachfeld — Walking The Bar/Single (Walking The Bar)(2025)/Andrea Brachfeld/Pacific Coast Jazz
Nicole Zuraitis & Friends — Do I Move You/Live At Vic’s Las Vegas (2025)/Nina Simone/la reserve
Kat Ellis — Take A Giant Step/Talking To Myself (2025)/Carole King, Gerry Goffin/Self Released
Carmen Staaf — Libra/Sounding Line (2025)/Mary Lou Williams/Sunnyside
Rebecca Kilgore and Dave Frishberg — In the Land of Oo-Blah-Dee/Not A Care In the World (1997)/Mary Lou Williams, Milton Orent/Arbors
Peter Campbell — Song for Old Lovers (La chanson des vieux amants)/Haunted Melody (2025)/ Jacques Brel, Amanda McBroom, Gérard Jouannest/Independent
Jane Ira Bloom — Riding My Planet/Songs In Space (2025)/Jane Ira Bloom/Outline Records
Atlantic Jazz Collective Feat. Norma Winstone and Joe LaBarbera — Distant Star (A Potter’s Song)/Seascape (2025)/Maria Schneider, Norma Winstone/Alma
Vertical Voices — New Day/Fourward (2014)/Carol Welsman/Self Released
Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann — Mirror Under Water/Under The Same Stars (2025)/Shuteen Erdenebaatar/Motema
Janet Planet, John Harmon — Some Other Time/Last Call (2025)/Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green/Self Released
Vivien Garry Quintet — A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/Vivien Garry/PNR

Rosetta Reitz and Rosetta Records gave me so much education as far as foremothers of Jazz - I will always mark her birth...
09/28/2025

Rosetta Reitz and Rosetta Records gave me so much education as far as foremothers of Jazz - I will always mark her birthday with thanks. Check out her tribute site - https://rosettatribute.weebly.com/

Good morning to all on this last September Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go...
09/28/2025

Good morning to all on this last September Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go seek out a dark club or an outdoor concert for distraction while the weather allows. 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 Heather McKay, Ledisi, Lizzy & The Triggermen, Kat Ellis and Carmen Staaf, with birthday shoutouts to feminist historian/producer Rosetta Reitz, Koko Taylor, Rebecca Kilgore, Norma Winstone and Janet Planet, 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 Heather McKay, Ledisi, Lizzy & The T...
09/27/2025

Sunday’s 3-5pm A Broad Spectrum broadcast on WFDU.FM HD2 includes new releases from Heather McKay, Ledisi, Lizzy & The Triggermen, Kat Ellis and Carmen Staaf, with birthday shoutouts to feminist historian/producer Rosetta Reitz, Koko Taylor, Rebecca Kilgore, Norma Winstone and Janet Planet, 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...
09/22/2025

Another episode of A Broad Spectrum has been posted at AllAboutJazz.com (see comment below for link)

This broadcast includes new releases from Jamile, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble (UNLV), Eli Yamin, Peter Campbell and Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann, with birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinking Again) Cecilia Coleman, Ramona Horvath, Helen Sung, Champian Fulton, Giacomo Gates, Maria Muldaur, Amy Winehouse, Christie Dashiell and Lorraine Feather, 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...
09/21/2025

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
Art Hodes — Travelin’ Blues/The Music of Lovie Austin/Lovie Austin/Pastels
Alberta Hunter & Lovie Austin & Her Blues Seranaders — You Better Change/Chicago: The Living Legends/Alberta Hunter/Riverside Records/Universal
Ella Fitzgerald — Down Hearted Blues/These Are The Blues/Lovie Austin, Alberta Hunter/Verve
The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band — Flee As A Bird/lOh, Didn’t He Ramble!/Live At Birdland (2025)/Mary S.B. Shindler/J. Rosamond Johnson, James W. Johnson, Bob Cole/Turtle Bay
Colin Hancock’s Jazz Hounds feat. Catherine Russell — Telephoning the Blues/Cat & The Hounds (2025)/Victoria Spivey/Turtle Bay Records
Marlena Shaw — Them There Eyes/It Is Love (Live at Vine St./1986)/ Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey/Verve
Emily Remler — Sweet Georgie Fame/East to Wes/Blossom Dearie, Sandra Harris/Concord
Joyce Breach — Sweet Georgie Fame/Odds & Ends/Blossom Dearie, Sandra Harris/Audiophile
Carmen Bradford with the Compass Jazz Orchestra — Hey John/Carmen Sings Carmen: Echoes of Carmen McRae (2025)/Blossom Dearie/Artist Alliance
Vi Redd — Lady Soul/Lady Soul/Vi Redd/Rhino Atlantic
Etta Jones — Swinging Shepherd Blues/Etta Jones Sings/Kenny Jacobson, Moe Koffman, Rhoda Roberts/Roulette
Bobby Short and His Orchestra — Romance In the Dark/Celebrating 30 Years At the Café Carlyle/Bill Broonzy, Lil Green/Telarc
Akiko Tsuruga — Funky Girl/Commencement/Akiko Tsuruga/Self Released

2nd HOUR
Michika Fukumori — Another Tomorrow/Eternity and a Day (2025)/Michika Fukumori/Summit
Jonathan Karrant — We’ve Got A World That Swings/Live In Concert Jonathan Karrant with the Joe Alterman Trio (2025)/ Lil Mattis, Lou Brown/Virtuoso Music
Frank Amsallem Trio — The Summer Knows (Un été 42)/The Summer Knows (2025)/Michel Legrand, Alan & Marilyn Bergman/Continuo Records
Janis Siegel — Sweet September Rain/Night Songs (2013)/ Bob Beiden/Harry Levine/Janis Siegel/Palmetto
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band — September/Act Your Age/Maurice White, Al McKay, Allee Willis/Immergent
Kait Dunton — Threads Suite 2/Planet d’Earth (2019)/Kait Dunton/Real & Imagined Music
Luciana Souza — Night Song/The Book of Longing (2018)/Luciana Souza, Leonard Cohen/Sunnyside
Sharon Robinson — Everybody Knows/Everybody Knows/Sharon Robinson, Leonard Cohen/Freeworld
Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann — The Road Ahead/Under The Same Stars (2025)/Shuteen Erdenebaatar/Motema
Jamile — Moon/Pursuit Of A Pulse (2025)/ DOMi Louna, JD Beck, Herbie Hancock/Cellar Music Group
Wesla Whitfield — Photographs/Live In San Francisco/Alec Wilder, Fran Landesman/HighNote
Vivien Garry Quintet — A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove/Vivien Garry/PNR

Good afternoon to all on this last day of Summer Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled time...
09/21/2025

Good afternoon to all on this last day of Summer Sunday wherever you are. Ever grateful for music in these troubled times - go seek out a dark club or an outdoor concert for distraction while the weather allows. 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 The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band, Camen Bradford, Michika Fukumori, Jonathan Karrant and Franck Amsallem, with birthday shoutouts to Jazz Foremother Lovie Austin, Vi Redd, Marlena Shaw, Emily Remler, Catherine Russell, Kait Dunton and Wesla Whitfield, among others, with remembrances for Joyce Breach and Akiko Tsuruga. 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)

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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.