History
The podcast was the brainchild of Dean Sahutske, musician and IT specialist and Rodney Reeves, musician and Elementary music teacher. Detroit Jazzstage was first aired in November 2005 at a time when the term was still unknown to most people. Their first guest, Mark Byerly is the leader of the Detroit group Bop Culture and soon became DJS's sound engineer. Mark has toured with the Artie Shaw Orchestra, RCA recording artists The Verve Pipe, Jive recording artist Justin Timberlake, Virgin recording artist and Neo-soul singer/songwriter/producer Dwele and most recently, Capitol recording artist, Bob Seger.
In March, of 2006, Jim Gallert replaced Dean Sahutske as co-host so Mr. Sahutske could focus on producing the show. Jim Gallert is a veteran jazz broadcaster, researcher and writer. He has over twenty-five years of radio experience as producer and host of "Jazz Yesterday and "Detroit Jazz Alive" on WDET-FM, Detroit, and "Swing City" on WEMU-FM, Gallert has participated in every Detroit International Jazz Festival as staff writer, emcee or host of "Meet The Artist" sessions. Jim has authored numerous biographies of Detroit jazz musicians and is also the co-author of Before Motown: A History of Jazz In Detroit, 1920 - 1960 by Lars Bjorn with Jim Gallert.
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