Longtime WBEZ all-night jazz DJ Dick Buckley (1925-2010) passed away today, at the age of 85. Buckley’s jazz program was a fixture on Chicago Public Radio every Monday through Friday night, from 1977 to 2008.
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This short clip of Buckley in the WBEZ studio is from the 1989 documentary Radio Faces. To watch the entire documentary, go to: http://mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=4927
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The above clip was broadcast on Chicago Tonight on Monday, July 26, in honor of Buckley. To see Phil Ponce introduce it on Chicago Tonight, go to:
http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,80&pid=HdVmtnWYStrvTCzQdUcpkNQoB_ufD58l