Mary McCann
HostMary McCann is a poet and performer and madly in love with music. She’s written three one woman shows and had her poetry published by Arizona State University. Broadcast radio was her life from age 17 on. In 1999 she had a pioneering role in Internet radio during the dot com boom in Silicon Valley. Mary is currently the World Music Director at AOL Internet radio and one of the narrators for BirdNote. She started at KNKX/Jazz24 in June of 2008 as the host of the Saturday Jazz Matinee.
Her most memorable KNKX/Jazz24 moment was my first fund drive. She says, “It was a thrill to talk to people about shared values through music. It still is, every time I take the mic.”
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In the lifetime of any composer and artist, to be associated with an iconic piece of music is to live in rarified company. Abdullah Ibrahim's "Mannanberg" reached such heights as the unofficial theme of anti-apartheid fighters in South Africa. -
Walk through the history, the decades, and the innovators of jazz with KNKX and Jazz24. In this first installment, Mary McCann goes back to the beginning with early jazz and Dixieland. -
Over the course of his life, Nat King Cole became a jazz innovator and an icon of American popular music. Take Five celebrates Cole's birthday — he was born on March 17, 1919 — with a "five-tool" (that's baseball lingo, we'll explain) approach, highlighting the breadth of his work.
