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Besides broadcasting, he writes, attends jazz festivals, and has been a frequent visitor to Cape Town’s International Jazz Festival. The Global Village of radio presenters included Wolfgang König, based in Berlin, who produces and presents Jazz Around The World, focusing on the European jazz scene. Brian Currin focused on South African blues and rock in his The Vagabond Show. Clifford Graham, an old colleague, had presented his Take 5 & Then Some, a mix of mainstream, nostalgic, vocal and pop jazz with a smattering of news about theatre, music, and reviews. Guitarist James Kibby presents his weekly The Kibby Factor with James “Acid Robot” Kibby, a blend of futuristic jazz, blues, and electronic music. Of the Capetownians, Granville Skippers presented his The Mother City Mix, welcomed old and new South African and other jazz works, and has continued to assist with technical matters in radio programming. The broadcasts can also be streamed from various mobile apps, like TuneIn and Radio South Africa.Īs the founder, program and music Manager, and compiler for All Jazz Radio, Eric brought on board several local and international jazz radio presenters over the years. Thus, his home radio studio birthed All Jazz Radio as an Internet Radio station which streams 24/7 jazz ‘live on the Net’ on He left Radio 2000 in 2013, subsequently, to pursue this lifelong dream.Įach program is streamed live during the day, and repeated twice during the week in the evenings in-between the playlist streaming. In 2012, Eric saw the need for a wider exposure and listenership of the growing jazz genre, both within South Africa and globally. Chatting with Billy Domingo, CEO of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival

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In March 2005, Eric left FMR in to join Radio 2000, a national public broadcast station with the SABC PBS portfolio, where he produced and presented his popular ‘Jazz Rendezvous’ series of weekly three-hour sessions which included live interviews with local and overseas jazz musicians and professionals intermixed with airplay of leading albums, chats about good foods, wines, and all good things that accompany the world of improvised music, blues, Latin, and world jazz. Eric was also responsible for training new jazz presenters for this new community station, and in 1993, mentored a young FMR Duty Producer, Granville Skippers, who later joined All Jazz Radio as a weekly presenter.ĭuring his tenure, Richard Arends served as Chair of FMR’s Board of Directors, and Rashid Lombard was Station Manager. Eric was a founding member of the Cape Town-based community radio Fine Music Radio (FMR – 101.3FM) which went live in July 1995, and worked as the Program Manager responsible for jazz programming amidst a predominately classic music oriented station.