This Monday's show will stress a two-part approach: a strategic retreat from the "high falutin'" sounds of last week's jazz'n'poetry neo-debacle and an enthusiastic embrace of the earthier, rootsier styles of jazz hinted at in the show's name- Just Plain Jazz.

Thankfully, Irving Toast has materialized at KRUU to handle the ethereal world of verse, leaving me free to dig through the giant stack of CDs one of my old running buddies dropped off at the station. I'll only be able to play a tiny fraction, but listen for Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff, Horace Silver, Karrin Allyson, Chico O'Farrill, Russell Malone, the Matthew Herbert Big Band, McCoy Tyner, E.S.T. (or do you say Esbjorn Svennson Trio?), Lalo Schifrin- well, 2 hours of jazz that I didn't have readily at hand before my friend so generously dropped off his contribution (to my contribution... and that's how community radio grows). By tuning in to hear one of those artists, who knows what you might discover? I found some real gems that I'll be happy to share.

Make sure you're in the right place at the right time. It's Joel DIlley's JPJ every Monday from 2 until 4 in the middle of the afternoon.  read more »