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New York Radio with Dr. Botek

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Song on My Lips is on the air in New York and area as GIPL author, Dr. Stephen Botek, is featured in many interviews. We will try to get a copy of these interviews to share with you.

The current schedule of radio interviews reaches as far as Toronto, Canada, and Boston, Mass. but most of the stations broadcast in NY State. Dates are listed with the oldest events at the bottom.

11:30 a.m. Monday, May 10, 2010, taped in studio of WOR radio, 111 Broadway, NYC, 3^rd fl., Bill Bertenshaw, Community Concerns,

11 am. Est, Thursday, April 22, 2010,

Jordan Rich, 20 min live interview on WBZ radio, Boston.

10:15 a.m. eastern time, Friday, April 16, 2010,

Ed Jones for a 10 min taped interview on the phone for KBEM, a jazz station in Minneapolis, MN,

8:50 am, est, Thursday, April 15, 2010, Bruce Owens, for a 10-20 min live interview on the phone

9:35 a.m. est, Wed. April 14, 2010, Don Williams for a 10-15 min interview on WOND, Atlantic City.

9:20 am, est, time, Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Bob Langstaff of WAMV, Amherst, VA, for a 10 min live interview. for the morning show

9:05 AM. Monday, April 12, 2010, Larry Whitler of WOCA, Ocala, FL for a 25 min live interview on the phone. Show is AM OCALA.

1:05 pm. Exact, Thursday, April 8, 2010, Don Brunelle at for a 25 min live interview on the phone for WOON, Woonsocket, RI (Providence market).

11:10 am, Thursday, April 8, 2010, Mike Pomp of WTSN, Dover, N.H., for a ½ hour live interview on the phone.

11 a.m. eastern time, WED. April 7, 2010, Dan Dunn, for interview on WMHR and 3 other NY state stations, at for a 5 min. tape interview on the phone.

8:20 am. Eastern time, Wed. April 7, 2010, Dan Schilling, for a 5-10 min LIVE interview for WSBS, Great Barrington,

9 a.m, est, Tuesday, APRIL 6, 2010, BILL REDDISH, for a 10-15 min taped interview on the phone for WICO, Salisbury, MD.

10:55 am. Monday, April 5, 2010, Sybil Tonkonogy,for a half hour live interview on the phone, for station WNTN, Newton, MA,

9:30 am. Est, Friday, April 2, 2010, Joyce Estey of WRNJ, Hackettstown, NJ, for a 10 min taped interview on the phone.

10:05 am. Eastern time, Thursday, APRIL 1, 2010, Tootie Cooksie, for station WILY, Centralia ILL, for a ½ hour to 45 min live interview on the phone.

9:00 AM. Eastern time, Thursday, April 1, 2010, Dave Peterson of CIUT, Toronto, CANADA, on the phone for a 15-25 min interview, LIVE.

1 pm. Eastern time, WED. March 31, 2010, Ken Johannessen for a 20 min taped interview on the phone for KPQ, Spokane, WA.

7:15 a.m est, WED, March 31, 2010, Ben Ball and Coastal Daybreak show, for a 10-15 min live interview on the phone of the Talk station, WTKF and WJNC, Morehead City, North Carolina,

9:05 a,m est, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, Bob Cudmore of WVTL of Amsterdam, NY, for a 10 min live interview on the phone.

Song On My Lips in Rochester

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:59:31 +0000

Buy Now

Dr. Stephen Botek will be giving a talk and signing his book at the Central Library in Rochester, NY as part of the “Thursday Thinkers Series” on March 4th. Meet Dr. Botek as he speaks about his first hand experiences meeting jazz greats of the big band era.

Central Library Events:

Thursday Thinkers – Song On My Lips, Jazz Greats Were My Mentors

04/03/2010; 12:12 pm – 12:52 pm Central Library

Kate Gleason Auditorium • 115 South Ave. Rochester, NY • (585) 428-7300
Age Level: Adult

Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Botek will share his adventures and artistic development as a young clarinetist mentored by Buddy De Franco and other jazz legends of the Big Band Era, as detailed in his book of stories, and profiles and rare photos of legendary musicians like Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson. DeFranco says: “Steve’s take on things included another component — detailed analysis of the often complicated people in the sometimes complicated world of music.”

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Botek
Psychiatrist and Author

For more information or to buy a hard cover copy of the book click here.

Cadence Magazine Reviews “Song On My Lips”

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Song On My Lips, Jazz Greats Were My Mentors has been getting a lot of attention recently. The prestigious publication, Cadence Magazine, has published a review of Dr. Stephen Botek’s book. The reviewer, Michael Steinman, is analytical and seems to have some grasp of the field of psychiatry as well as music.

Excerpt from the review:

In a back-cover blurb, Phil Woods compares Botek to Huckleberry Finn. Perhaps—there is a good deal of prankish humor in his adventures. But Botek reminds me much more of the young James Joyce’s alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, finding himself as an artist. In some ways, this book is the consistently intriguing autobiography of a developing consciousness, whether the shaping influence is DeFranco or Wilhelm Reich.

– Michael Steinman

Download the review of “Song On My Lips” Here (cadence-apr-may-jun-2009-65)

Purchase in Soft Cover or Hard Cover version by clicking on your choice.

Song On My Lips Review In Cadence Magazine

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:58:04 +0000

Song On My Lips Book Cover

Cadence Magazine is an authoritative voice in jazz with an extensive readership. One of the few publications that is only available in print, it is mainly available by subscription or at your local news stand. Their independent voice is recognized as serving the community of and not their advertisers, so reviews can be considered reliable and impartial. We were thrilled to have such a great review of Dr. Botek’s book.

Cadence Magazine

“Superficially less ambitious but more satisfying is a Jazz memoir by STEPHEN T. BOTEK, a New York psychiatrist born in 1929, SONG ON MY LIPS: Jazz Greats Were My Mentors (Granville Island Publishing, 2008, 352 pages). In books on Jazz, I take pleasure in first-hand experience, cogently presented. A writer who was there is a rare and delightful personage indeed.

. . . Botek reminds me much more of the young James Joyce’s alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, finding himself as an artist.” [excerpt]

Michael Steinman
apr – may – june 2009 | cadence | 65

Click here to download the entire article from cadence-apr-may-jun-2009-65

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Soft Cover

Hard Cover

For more information about the book visit the Song on My Lips webpage

Song On My Lips Ad in Downbeat Magazine

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