Jazz podcast series host Dave Reis spent nearly 26 years as a Jazz radio show host among his many other accomplishments. He was one of the original longtime DJs who worked at the former WUSM which became radio station WUMD, 89.3 FM, on the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus.

Dave Reis, AKA David Domingo Reis, was our guest on In-Focus Podcast 154. and In-Focus Podcast 181 and returns once again as the host of our first-ever podcast series. Our thanks to local businessman Neal Weiss, the founder of the Fiber Optic Center, a jazz aficionado, and entrepreneur, for underwriting this ten-part jazz podcast series.

There is no better host for this series than Dave Reis, a walking, talking jazz encyclopedia and local legend himself. Dave grew up surrounded by and hanging around with many of the jazz greats he will be presenting his new jazz podcast series.

In episode one Dave Reis takes a trip down memory lane and recounts the lives and careers of the artists featured on The Jazz Mural in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park in downtown New Bedford by Kat Knutsen, which was also sponsored by Neal Weiss’s Fiber Optic Center and Whaling City Sound. Kat has been our guest on podcast episodes 73, 131, and 180.

Learn more about the Jazz Series by visiting The South Coast Artists Index.