Parker Miles Blohm
Digital Media ManagerParker Miles Blohm works closely with KNKX's News and Music teams to develop visual stories and media online. He produces KNKX Studio Sessions and other video projects as well as builds and maintains digital projects for the web.
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he attended the University of Missouri where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism, with an emphasis on photojournalism and visual storytelling.
Prior to joining KNKX in 2015, Parker worked at NPR in Washington, D.C., where he filmed and edited Tiny Desk Concerts, Front Row and Field Recordings. He also worked at POSSIBLE, an ad agency in Seattle, where he filmed and edited visual content for brands.
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About 25 years into his career, Kareem Kandi is one of the key figures in the Northwest jazz community. For his third visit to the KNKX studios, Kandi's…
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One of the world's foremost modern jazz groups, Kneebody, exudes rock 'n' roll energy with chamber music sensibilities and dynamic, angular compositions. They're a communal group collecting the sax and trumpet work of Ben Wendel and Shane Endsley, respectively. With the keyboard skills of Adam Benjamin and the bass and drums rhythm section of Kaveh Rastegar and Nate Wood, Kneebody have developed a genre all their own.
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Saxophonist and composer Donny McCaslin raised his profile to the stratosphere working with David Bowie on his final album in 2016. Smartly, he's used this launching pad to display his own passionate, searching jazz on his own 2016 release, Beyond Now. The pride of Santa Cruz, California's next move was further in the pop direction. Blow is a vocals-driven collection still pushing urgently toward modern jazz in a style NPR's All Things Considered called "exhilarating art rock."
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Ernie Watts has built an enviable musical résumé. The sax player was a key member of Charlie Haden's Quartet West, played with the "Tonight Show" band for 20 years, and lent his jazz expertise to the rock music of The Rolling Stones and Frank Zappa's band.
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Memphis-born singer Dee Dee Bridgewater broke into jazz with the great Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, and she's collaborated with Ray Charles and…
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Ghost-Note is co-led by Snarky Puppy rhythm section mates Robert Searight (drum kit) and Nate Werth (percussion). Originating as a percussion duo, they've…
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If you missed out on getting eclipse glasses, you're not out of luck yet. There are still ways to see Monday's eclipse without them.A sheet of paper with…
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Seattle was the first American city to host Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s work in 1957.Now, more than six decades worth of Kusama’s work is at the…
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Celebrating the birthday of one of the most influential figures in jazz for a fifth year at Tula's jazz club, trumpeter Thomas Marriott brought three…