Jazz Tones

Sundays from 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM

Hosted by Jay Edwards

Jay Edwards

Lenna Davis

Jazz Tones with your host Jay Edwards features legendary and emerging artists of mainstream, Latin and Brazilian Jazz. Jay's goal for his audience is education and entertainment better known as "edu-tainment." He achieves this during Jazz Tones with interviews with composers, instumentalists, and vocalists.

Jazz Tones is an ongoing musical journey you can join every Sunday afternoon from three until seven.

Jazz Tones Insights - Mark Winkler

By Jay Edwards • Oct 5, 2018

Listen to Jazz Tones this Sunday from 3pm-7pm on Atlanta's Jazz Station 91.9 WCLK. I will interview Mark Winkler, platinum award-winning singer/lyricist. His recent release with Cheryl Bentyne from Manhattan Transfer, Eastern Standard Time(Cafe Pacific Records), includes songs of East Coast lineage that will remind listeners of the music performed in jazz clubs in New York City between 1950-1960.

Jazz Tones Insights-Fusion Ensemble Previews Fusion IV: Metamorphosis

By Jay Edwards • Sep 28, 2018

Jazz Tones airs on Atlanta's Jazz Station 91.9 WCLK on Sundays from 3pm-7pm. This Sunday I'll be joined by Karin Banks and George Freeman, founders of Fusion Ensemble. Fusion's vision is to redefine and re-invigorate the traditional Classical recital platform by creating a more interactive artistic expression between music, dance and spoken word. Fusion IV: Metamorphosis will be performed on Sunday, October 7, at 5:00pm Emory Performing Arts Studio, 1804 N Decatur Road Atlanta Georgia 30307.

Jazz Tones Insights-Latin Jazz Host, Advocate Awilda Rivera

By Jay Edwards • Sep 28, 2018

Join me Sunday from 3pm-7pm for Jazz Tones on Atlanta's Jazz Station 91.9 WCLK. Sunday's special guest will be Awilda Rivera. Rivera is a retired on air announcer at WBGO in Newark, where she was on the air for over twenty years. She has hosted on weekends-- Jazz After Hours, Sunday Morning Harmony, and Latin Jazz Cruise. Awilda received the 2009 Chico O'Farrill Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2012 New York People's Hall of Fame Award for fostering Latin Jazz on Radio.

Jazz Tones Insights-David Sanchez

By Jay Edwards • Sep 6, 2018

Grammy award - winner David Sanchez recently joined me during Jazz Tones on WCLK to talk about his music, his academic career, and a Friday night performance at Georgia State University. Globally, he is considered one of the finest saxophonists of his generation. Sanchez "merges Jazz syntax with musical dialects of his native Puerto Rico and other Caribbean and Latin American sources,"states Howard Reich.

WCLK Jazz Tones Host Jay Edwards Nominated As Presenter Of The Year By JazzWeek

By Rob Maynard • Jul 30, 2018

Congratulations to Jay Edwards, host of Jazz Tones on Jazz 91.9 WCLK, Sundays from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., for being nominated as Presenter of the Year in the 2018 JazzWeek Awards. This category is for a Jazz broadcaster with exceptional presentation and communications skills for an outstanding individual who hosts or produces a Jazz program. Awards will be given out on August 9 in San Jose at the Annual JazzWeek Summit.