Steve Elman was a disk jockey at WBUR FM, Boston, Massachusetts, a public radio station licensed by Boston University. From 1972 to 1982 he played long playing jazz records in a nighttime radio program, "Spaces", which he had originated in 1968 at WHRW, the radio station at Harpur College (now Binghamton University). His program opened with the John McLaughlin opening guitar solo to "Follow Your Heart" on Joe Farrell's CTI album, "Song of the Wind." When the guitar lowered in volume and Farrell's saxophone entered, Elman usually began his comments. He broadcast records from throughout the field of jazz: classic as well as avant garde, brief pieces as well as extended works.
Elman's selection of records and his discussions of performers and records demonstrated profound authority, insight and care in consideration of jazz music.
In 1982 WBUR terminated his jazz program and had him broadcast classical music. Subsequently, he became Assistant General Manager, 1992 to 2004.
He retired from WBUR early in 2004. In the following years, with Alan Tolz, he researched and co-authored Burning Up The Air, a biography of radio talk show host Jerry Williams, whose program Elman produced in 1972-73 on WBZ in Boston.
As of June 2006 he was Secretary of The WBUR Group Executive Council and continued on-air fundraising for WBUR. [1] [2]
He has been an advocate for establishing public radio in Rhode Island which had lacked such radio, until the establishment of WRNI.
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