My dear fellow MOJANs, This was a tough one but I had to tell you sometime. After 10 years of operation I had to shut down MOJA Radio at the end of the year 2018. There are a number of reasons for this decision and they have all piled up to the point of diminishing […]
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After 21 years, my work with The Voice of America came to an end on 1 January, 2021. Besides my activities beginning in 1978 in jazz radio in the USA and in various world-wide settings, JAZZ AMERICA was the topping on the cake that was the delicious treat of working in jazz on the air. […]
June 17th, 2012 
Russ Davis 
June 12th, 2011 Russ Davis 
Russ Davis here, and please pardon me for blowing my own horn, but I wanted to tell you that I won the 2011 award as “Internet Programmer Of The Year” from the Jazz Programmers List/JazzWeek Awards. So if you are listening to MOJA Radio you’re now listening to “The Award-Winning” MOJA Radio! JazzWeek, celebrating its 10th anniversary in August 2011, is the weekly online publication dedicated to jazz and jazz radio programming. Nominees are selected by JazzWeek subscribers, including: jazz radio programmers, jazz record company executives and independent jazz radio record promoters. A million thanks to those who voted for me and I promise to do all I can to continue to deserve this honor.
November 11th, 2010 Russ Davis Folks…Denon (yep, the great electronics maker) is 100 YEARS OLD! It’s hard to believe…I thought the light bulb was only created yesterday…but as part of their celebration they have done a bunch of interviews with various people who’ve used Denon equipment in the past and they asked me to be involved.
Here’s the link to check it out if you have some extra time…
September 22nd, 2010 Russ Davis 
After 21 years, my work with The Voice of America came to an end on 1 January, 2021. Besides my activities beginning in 1978 in jazz radio in the USA and in various world-wide settings, JAZZ AMERICA was the topping on the cake that was the delicious treat of working in jazz on the air. It gave me the chance to hear so much wonderful, inspiring music…meet, interview and get to know personally hundreds of incredibly talented, brilliant and engaging men and women in jazz…travel all over the world to take in jazz events from Europe to Asia, to the Caribbean and from coast to coast in the USA and Canada! Possibly the most compelling aspect of my work was to oversee and present the exciting evolution of jazz in 40+ years from the last two of the 20th through the first two decades of the 21st centuries!
JAZZ AMERICA was the only full time jazz program heard on the U.S. Government service The Voice of America from 1999 through 2020. I was honored to program and present it beginning on the 4th of July in 1999. The show was two hours long and reached an estimated audience of 126 million listeners worldwide each weekend. It was heard not only on FM radio stations around the world but also originally via shortwave tranmission and on the VOA entertainment service VOA 1.
IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR AND PLEASURE TO CREATE THIS SHOW AND REMIND THE WORLD OF THE WONDERFUL, ARTISTIC THINGS OUR NATION HAS CREATED!
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