# Late Night Jazz Station Host Died Last March...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 16, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-jazz-station-host-died-last-march/728005 "2015-08-16T18:20:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-jazz-station-host-died-last-march/728005/1 "2015-08-16T18:20:28Z")

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…yet his show is still on the air and I only heard of his death today. :eek:

[http://jazzandblues.org/programming/](http://jazzandblues.org/programming/)

> **[Bob Parlocha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parlocha)**
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> Robert "Bob" Parlocha (April 18, 1938 – March 15, 2015) was an American jazz expert who was best known as a radio host and programmer. He was also a professional saxophone player and gourmet cook. He was in wide syndication with his nighttime jazz show Jazz With Bob Parlocha.
> Bob Parlocha was born in Solano, California, in 1938, to Maria Carter and Carlos Parlocha. His father was Filipino American and his mother half-black, half-Filipino. Parlocha's maternal grandparents, George Washington Carte...

Ive never heard of this.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-jazz-station-host-died-last-march/728005/2 "2015-08-16T20:57:33Z")

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Sad to hear. He was a great jock. I listened to his show a lot in times past, but not lately.

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**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-jazz-station-host-died-last-march/728005/3 "2015-08-16T21:25:57Z")

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Yeah it’s weird. They got someone else on in Boston, but at 4:00 AM it goes back to reruns of Bob Parlocha for the last two hours. Good host. I don’t know if we’ll see the like of 20th century radio people anymore. They’re going to be younger, dumber and more lifeless , if they exist at all.

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-night-jazz-station-host-died-last-march/728005/4 "2015-08-17T06:13:04Z")

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> [@drad\_dog](#):
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> Yeah it’s weird. They got someone else on in Boston, but at 4:00 AM it goes back to reruns of Bob Parlocha for the last two hours. Good host. I don’t know if we’ll see the like of 20th century radio people anymore. They’re going to be younger, dumber and more lifeless , if they exist at all.

I agree. I just hope jazz radio survives.