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LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY: Randy Napoleon

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Our Live Music Friday guest today is guitarist Randy Napoleon. He’s recorded a couple of CD’s, “Between Friends” and “The Jukebox Crowd”, he’s played on dozens of other recordings and has toured extensively, notably with Freddy Cole.These days, he’s an assistant professor in the MSU College of Music’s Jazz Studies Program. For our show, he’s joined by Joe Vasquez on bass and drummer Nick Bracewell, young players he’s been working with here in East Lansing. The trio performed "Cannonball".

Scott Pohl has maintained an on-call schedule reporting for WKAR following his retirement after 36 years on the air at the station.
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