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WPSU Jazz Archive - August 22, 2025

WPSU | By John Pozza

Published August 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT

American jazz pianist Dave Brubeck waves prior to his appearance before a Soviet audience on Thursday, March 26, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko) — American jazz pianist Dave Brubeck waves prior to his appearance before a Soviet audience on Thursday, March 26, 1987 in Moscow, Russia.

An archive recording of the WPSU Jazz Show as broadcast on August 22, 2025 and hosted by John Pozza.

The program features tracks from The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers, Stan Getz with Charlie Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell Trio, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Weather Report, Cecil Taylor Trio, Grover Washington Jr., Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, The Modern Jazz Quartet, and more.

Listen to archived WPSU Jazz shows here.

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John Pozza

John Pozza, of Brookville, is an author, quality early learning advocate, veteran broadcast journalist and WPSU Board member. John is a graduate of West Virginia University in Morgantown and did post graduate study at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He retired in 2020 from the Region 1 Early Learning Resource Center based at the Northwest Institute of Research in Erie, but keeps active as a rotating host of the WPSU Jazz Show. John is also a contributor to the Watershed Books and Literary Arts Center in Brookville, which publishes the Watershed Journal literary magazine. He has authored three books, including The Summer of ‘66, when he lived as a young boy with his grandparents in Philly discovering his family’s unique genealogy; Conversations on The Neighborhood on the lasting legacy of Fred Rogers; and his memoir, Was Anybody Really Listening? His Ask the Expert Quality Early Learning podcast can be heard on the You Tube, Sound Cloud and Connect FM apps.

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