ARTS on ART OF SOUND

Passionate is an apt description of Mark Chapman's dedication to perpetuate an appreciation for jazz recordings dating from 1917 to tomorrow on KETR’s "The Art Of Sound".

Since 1986, "The Art Of Sound" has delighted listeners with a completely different listening experience each day of the year.  You will hear music styles ranging from blues, ragtime, Dixieland, boogie-woogie, stride, swing, and big band to be-bop, cool, hot, progressive, traditional, mainstream, free, avant-garde, fusion, bop-be, neo-bop and beyond.

“The Art Of Sound” is more than music.  Mark and Bruce Tater, his Thursday night co-host, have conducted over 200 interviews with internationally respected jazz musicians, composers/arrangers, educators, authors, and radio and television personalities.

Quoting Mark, he says his “passion for this indigenous American musical art-form began as a child listening to Woody Herman's Big Band with his mother, watching "The Gene Krupa Story" on a late-night movie with his grandmother, and never missing an appearance of Pete Fountain on "The Lawrence Welk Show".  His love “developed further when he began learning jazz and be-bop trap-set applications with tutelage in Jim Chapin's "Advanced Techniques For The Modern Drummer" and playing with his high school jazz ensemble.”  Growing up in northeast Texas, Mark jokes that the majority of his massive jazz record collection was purchased with money he made drumming in Rock and Country bands!

In Mark’s words:  Enrich your life. Satisfy your soul. Listen, learn and enjoy "The Art Of Sound"!

Mark always welcomes any and all listeners as financial supporters and businesspeople who wish to enhance their marketing through underwriting on "The Art Of Sound" on KETR-FM 88.9 and ketr.org!!!