Nina Simone Birthday Special on Sunday Night Jazz on WCOM-FM with host Larry Reni Thomas 2/21/21
(Published: February 19, 2021)

Listen to WCOM-FM (www.wcomfm.org), Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, February 21, 2021, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Nina Simone Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Nina Simone's music and an audio documentary called "Nina Simone: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual."

The documentary features commentary and analysis from Jim Ketch, a trumpet player and a former jazz studies professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Larry Ridley, a bassist and former director of the Rutgers University's jazz studies department, and Durham, North Carolina-based vocalist Nnenna Freelon, who considers Simone one of her early inspirations, .

The documentary is part of a four part series dedicated to North Carolina native jazz musicians and includes profiles of Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and John Coltrane. .

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