Mid-Day Jazz (WBGO) (Jazz)

About Mid-Day Jazz (WBGO)

Rhonda Hamilton, a native New Yorker, is the host and producer of a popular jazz program which airs weekdays, 10AM - 2PM, on WBGO/Jazz 88FM in Newark, NJ. In addition to her work at WBGO, Ms. Hamilton also does commercial and industrial voice-overs and is often called upon to host/narratefilm, video and radio productions for such organizations as WNET-TVPBS/Channel 13 in New York, National Public Radio, Columbia Records and Japan Television NHK. She was the host of the nationally syndicated radio series "Big Apple Jazz", "American Women in Jazz" and "The Voices of Jazz" which she also co-produced. Ms. Hamilton has been the subject of several video productions including a segment of the Disney Cable series called "Working"which focused on her career as a broadcaster. She has also been featured in interviews about jazz and WBGO for the New Jersey Public Television Network and for TV stations WNBC, WWOR, and WNYW in New York and NHK in Japan. Ms. Hamilton frequently hosts special music and cultural event sin such historic places as the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Beacon Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 1993 she produced and moderated a Symposium on Women in Jazz for the Newark Jazz Festival and in 1996 she was a guest speaker on "Jazz and The Media" at the first annual Mary Lou Williams Women's Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.