Coming up on this week’s edition of UPFRONT/Inside the Entertainment Industry. Television and film superstar Idris Elba is here to chat about his highly anticipated Apple TV plus series H/JACK. This conversation is part of an AAFCA Roundtable Discussion.
Media icon Cathy Hughes is here to take us back down memory lane and talk about the origins of the “Quiet Storm,” the legendary music program that revolutionized black radio in the mid 70s and early 80s and made stars out of R&B vocalists and contemporary jazz artists.
And in the last segment, we’ll play another excerpt from my exclusive conversation with singer-songwriter Kipper Jones. He recalls chance-encounters with Grammy-winning vocalists Luther Vandross and Chaka Khan.
UPFRONT/Inside the Entertainment Industry is produced and hosted by Ray Cornelius for Jazz 91.9 WCLK. The show re-airs on SiriusXM HBCU Channel 142 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 6:30pm EST. It is also presented by the High Museum of Art.