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Jazz Beat #11 - That's Life

New England Public Media | By Tom Reney
Published December 30, 2015 at 2:22 PM EST
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

In this edition of NEPR's Jazz Beat, Tom Reney explores the song "That's Life" through incarnations by Frank Sinatra, OC Smith and James Brown. The history of a single song can reveal a lot about the singers and their times.
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Tom Reney
Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian Martland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a bachelor's degree from UMass Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.


Email Tom at [email protected].
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