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Now Playing: 20:00:0018:01:50 FM 91's online audio is listener supported. Help support the stream. Donate now by Fritz Byers In 1992, I sat in the Toledo Peristyle, rapt and awestruck, along with the rest of the full house, listening to the Toledo Symphony Orchestra play a new piece by a Toledo native, a piano concerto written in honor of another Toledo native. At the piano was the composer, Stanley Cowell. The pianist being honored, Art Tatum, had been dead for thirty-five years.

Now Playing: 08:50:0000:52:21 FM 91's online audio is listener supported. Help support the stream. Donate now Apples to Zebras is an innovative early learning initiative from WGTE Public Media! It’s an exciting series of 26 short videos — one for each letter of the alphabet — and each one is paired with an iconic Lucas County landmark. These engaging videos help instill letter recognition and sound awareness in young learners, giving them skills that can help them succeed in school.

Now Playing: 12:00:0008:25:16 FM 91's online audio is listener supported. Help support the stream. Donate now WGTE presents Apples to Zebras, an amazing way to get young learners excited about their ABCs — and exploring area landmarks! Each episode focus on one letter of the alphabet, as host Kelsey Kaczala takes viewers on tours of the places that make this region special. There's singing, learning and fun for kids and grown-ups alike.

by Fritz Byers We’ve spent the week trying to see John Coltrane clearly. Tuesday, I proposed to think about the arc of his career as one, long unbroken search rather than as a series of reinventions. Wednesday, the focus was his two indispensable apprenticeships, looking at what he took from his time from Miles, and, more decisively, what he carried forward from Monk. Yesterday, a handful of records that deserve your attention alongside the more usual suspects. Now it’s Friday.

Now Playing: 16:00:0014:15:14 FM 91's online audio is listener supported. Help support the stream. Donate now by Fritz Byers The Essential Coltrane. If you go looking for that, whether by talking to mavens or mining what these days passes for Intelligence, you’ll get variations on the same core of recordings: Giant Steps, A Love Supreme, probably My Favorite Things, maybe the live Vanguard recordings. Nothing wrong about any of that.

by Fritz Byers John Coltrane came to Miles Davis’s band in the fall of 1955 more or less by default, a result of Miles’s moving to Plan B after Sonny Rollins, Plan A, withdrew from circulation to kick a heroin habit — Sonny would spend part of the next year working construction and boxing in Chicago as a way of staying clean, an application of the same discipline that would lead to his famed self-imposed exile on the Williamsburg bridge, insisting to himself that, despite the widening acclaim...

by Fritz Byers On Wednesday, John Coltrane turns 100. He was born September 23, 1926, in Hamlet, North Carolina. He passed on July 17, 1967, in Huntington, New York, of liver cancer. Forty years old. Take a moment with that.

Now Playing: 11:21:07 FM 91's online audio is listener supported. Help support the stream. Donate now Lake Effect Podcast and Sessions Digital Music Series Honored WGTE Public Media was honored this weekend at the 59th Annual Public Media Awards, presented by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA). WGTE’s Lake Effect won in the podcast category, and Sessions won in the category for digital media.

by Fritz Byers Self-aggrandizing claims of absurd proportion are all the rage these days, and debunking them is its own parlor industry. (Some people make that so easy.) If the robots don’t kill us, these mirror-in-mirror obsessions might. But then, it’s well to remember that this is nothing new. The pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton famously boasted that he invented jazz in 1902.

At Farnsworth Metropark, Erin speaks to Dr. Megan Cranor about an actual prescription for using the Metroparks system called NatureRx.