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How I Became a Jazz Disc Jockey - Rusty Hassan

1,583 views · Published 23 January 2014 · 10:10 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Jazz Video Guy · 2014 · Music

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Listen to Rusty Hassan on Thursday night from 10pm to Midnight on http://www.wpfwfm.org/radio/   Rusty Hassan is one of the more venerable and hippest enthusiasts on the DC-area jazz scene. Dial up most any worthwhile jazz performance in the Washington-Baltimore area and you're more than likely to find Rusty on the scene, sometimes with his eager young grandson in tow. Friend and confidante of many musicians, and one of the warmest, most knowledgeable interviewers in jazz radio, Rusty Hassan is one of those cornerstones of the jazz cognoscenti in the DC area. Rusty has also taught jazz history courses, at Georgetown University and American University, for many years; during the school year some evenings when you tune in his program Rusty will be playing selections that serve as quiz or test subjects for his students. So its safe to say that many in DC have been educated by Rusty Hassan's broadcasts, whether they were part of his formal classes, or part of his jazz university of the streets.

After WDCU, the former radio outlet of the University of the District of Columbia and a bastion of jazz radio, was hastily sold in the mid-90s by the university to CSpan Radio, leaving the once relatively jazz radio-rich nation's capital region with WPFW as its sole jazz beacon, Rusty Hassan was the first of 'DCU's fine raft of programmers to land a show on 'PFW. He can currently be heard at 89.3 FM (or on wpfw.org) on Monday evenings 7-9pm, where he serves up scrumptious portions of classics and new releases and welcomes all manner of artist interview subjects onto the airways.

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