Are You Kidding? The WTJU Promo Players are Jazzed!

By WTJU

The WTJU Promo Art Players have recorded another stellar set of promos, all to get you pumped for the 2026 WTJU Jazz Marathon! You can listen to them all in one place via the links below, and catch them during WTJU broadcast programming in the two weeks leading up to the Marathon.

Thank you to our awesome audio producer, Ben Larsen, for participating and producing. And as always, thank you to our fearless and ferocious director, Don Harrison, for his originality, vision, and commitment!

This year’s promo writers include Don Harrison (Radio Wowsville, Sun, 11pm-1am), Brian Keena (The Jazz Messenger, Fri, 10:30am-12pm), Zoe Krylova (Foggy Notion, Wed, 2-4pm), David Soyka (Jumpin’ On the Bed, Sat, 4-6pm), Annie De Blanco (Merging With the Night, Wed, 11pm-1am) and Stephen Barling (WTJU Folk Director).

Voice actors:

Jordan Taylor (“Sister Pirate Jenny”, WTJU Rock Sub)
Nick Rubin (“Poubelle”, WTJU Rock Sub)
Lewis Reining (“Lee Suk Jin” on Silk Roads)
Rus Perry (Jazz at 100 Now!)
Bill Pemberton (“Ciclamino”on Radio Wowsville)
Audrey Parks (“Al”, WTJU Rock Sub)
Barbara Notar (“B-Note” on Carry the Zero)
Dave Moore (Ye Olde Tuesday Afternoon Rocke Show)
Jane McDonald (Distinguished alumni)
Leia Manuel (“DJ Malpaso” on Limerence Addiction)
Ben Larsen (Engineer extraordinaire) 
Zoe Krylova (“Zostress” on Foggy Notion)
Brian Keena (The Jazz Messenger)
Don Harrison (Radio Wowsville)
Steve Harris (Beyond Borders, Jazz at 100 Now!)
Tracey Crehan (“Nowhere Girl” on Free Lucid Headphones)
Annie De Blanco (Merging With the Night)
Mary Beth Bauermann (Ragtag Radio)
Stephen Barling (“Rudy2shooz” on Reggae Vibrations, Black Circle Revolution, & Fantastic Expedition) 

Tags: , , , ,

Outline of a person with both arms and legs spread out, against a solid blue background.

Can't access something? Let us know!

For technical problems (no audio stream, chat not working), please contact [email protected]. For any disability-related barriers while using this site, please use UVA's Report a Barrier form at reportabarrier.virginia.edu. This includes but is not limited to: lacking transcript or captions, low color contrast, missing alt-text, etc. (Image by Dave Braunschweig, CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0. Modified for rectangle orientation)

Donations

Your gift nourishes our community and helps bring people together through music.

Donate
Underwrite a Program