WMUK airs interview with pianist Everett N. Jones on composer William Grant Still, who is featured at AfriClassical.com

 

William Grant Still (1895-1978),

http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Still.html,

is featured at AfriClassical.com

 Dr. Everett N. Jones

Jack Perlstein writes from WMUK, 102.1, NPR, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo:

Hi, Bill.

Here is a link to an interview I just aired with Everett Jones on William Grant Still.

http://wmuk.org/post/pianist-everett-n-jones-william-grant-still

Thanks, Bill!

Jack

WMUK - NPR 

Philadelphia born pianist Everett Jones sustains an active performing career throughout the U.S. and abroad playing traditional repertoire and the music of African-American composers.  He has pioneered performances of William Grant Still and George Walker at many colleges and universities.  Jones is the director of the William Grant Still Performing Arts Society, and has recently completed recording the complete piano music of William Grant Still, a project that has not been done before. Dr. Jones teaches at Cincinnati State University.