WPKN has long been a jazz haven - Rick Petrone (The Jazz Sound), Lisa Sahulka (Afternoon Jazz), Lou Pomales (La Esquina Latina), Kevin Gallagher, Joseph Celli (My Other Music), Richard Epstein (Sometimes Classical), Bob Anderson (A Little Bit of Everything) et al. These DJs and more will spin the cool, Sunday, November 16 through Monday, November, 17, 7AM-6PM programming blocks digging into the tracks that originally hooked these DJs on an advanced American art form. Coltrane, Miles, Mingus, Billie, Ella, Bessie you'll hear 'em all while raising funds for a station committed to broadcasting unique, eclectic sounds.

Donate via the web (here) via wpkn.org/donate, CALL 203-331-9756, or TEXT the word JAZZ101 to 53-555

On-Air Schedule, Sunday, November 16

7-9AM: ICON

9AM-NOON: Joseph Celli (My Other Music), Richard Epstein (Sometimes Classical)

NOON-3PM: Rick Petrone (The Jazz Sound)

3-6PM: Lou Pomales (La Esquina Latina) with special guest Bobby Sanabria

On-Air Schedule, Monday, November 17

7-9AM: David Golden (Morning Maniac Music) + The Pod

9AM-NOON: Bob Anderson (A Little Bit of Everything), Anne-Marie Ryzak (WPKN Office Manager)

NOON-3PM: Lisa Sahulka (Afternoon Jazz), Kevin Patrick (So Many Records, So Little Time)

3-6PM: Kevin Gallagher, Kenn Greenquist (As Heard on WPKN, Incunabula)

8-9:30PM: Scott Harris (Counterpoint, Between the Lines)

Our friends at ACE Records have generously donated a stack of This Is... vinyl including:

This Is Funky Jazz

This Is Mod 1960-1968

This Is Street Funk 1968-1974

This Is Retro Soul 1969-1979

This Is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975

This Is The Breaks 1966-1975

And the popular compact disc format with:

Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz And The Art Of Protest

If You're Not Part Of The Solution - Soul, Politics And Spirituality In Jazz 1967-1975

Directions In Music 1969 To 1973: Miles Davis, His Musicians, and the Birth of a New Age of Jazz

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Plus

Mod Jazz Rides Again, The In Sound Gary McFarland

Paul Murphy Presents: The Return of Jazz Club

The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier

I'm Not Talkin': The Song Stylings of Mose Allison 1957-1971

Brother Jack McDuff Live

Monday programming from noon to 6PM will spotlight the history and jazz/funk/soul catalog of ACE Records.

All callers on Sunday/Monday 11.16-17 will be entered for a chance to win some of these fabulous ACE Records titles.

This fundraiser extends to another day (Tuesday 11/18) devoted to the ongoing Stronger Together year-end goal, and L.A. Dreamers: The Songs of Brian Wilson & Sly Stone on Weds 11/19!

And as ever our WPKN premiums in support of this mighty station!

$25 Pledge: WPKN Bumper Sticker Pack

A wide array of WPKN bumper stickers to show your support loud 'n' proud! Varieties and styles will vary.

$50 Pledge: WPKN Tote Bag

Sling your records, books, groceries, overnights in this stylish cloth bag that tells the world YOU have supreme listening tastes.

$75 Pledge: LAST CHANCE - WPKN Record Logo T-shirt

Short-sleeve WPKN Record Logo (designed by Martha Willette Lewis host of The Flux Capacitor) in black, 100% ring-spun, cotton T-Shirt. The New Yorker "Greatest Radio Station in the World" quote on back.

This shirt is unisex and has short sleeves to show off those stunner guns!

True to size - order one size larger if in doubt.

$89.50 Pledge: WPKN x Karl Heine 7.25 x 4.75 notebook, made of 100% recycled material. Limited Edition of 100.

WPKN is thrilled to partner with Karl Heine on a hand-crafted WPKN 7.25 x 4.75 notebook, made of 100% recycled material - now available via the brand new WPKN Shop in a first-run limited edition of 100.

Just as WPKN is a storied, Bridgeport-made institution, this collaboration came to life just miles down the road at AmFab studios, where we happened upon Karl Heine’s design work. Karl is a Bridgeport-based designer, educator, talent consultant, and supporter of WPKN.

130 pages (65 leaf) of acid-free paper await your plans, ideas, and sketches. The silver WPKN record logo sits on marbled recycled Italian leather, with a back purple inlay in a nod to the ‘Purple Knight Network.’

Dream in style and in support of your beloved community radio station, WPKN.

Watch the behind the scenes promo video on the collaboration and process here.

Our Woven Community Tote Bags, Handmade and all unique!

$100 Pledge: the ever-popular Our Woven Community Tote Bag

Our Woven Community (OWC) is a local Bridgeport Burroughs Community Center program that provides local resettled refugee women the opportunity to become self-sufficient leaders and become empowered with entrepreneurial skills and economic opportunity.

Participants of the program, (our Artists) learn to use sewing machines, to create these beautiful handbags, all unique!

WPKN 'Jazz 101' Fundraiser

Get tuned in to the foundational jazz artists and tracks that originally hooked leading WPKN DJs