Paul Donovan is stepping into the KUVO controversy with optimism and excitement. Here's his story.
While in the Big Easy, Donovan and his then-wife purchased a house in the French Quarter, where they were immersed in jazz day and night. He fondly recalls visits to Tipitina's and Preservation Hall, two of the city's most storied venues. But in 1993, when management at the station"decided to take things in a different direction," he says,"I was suddenly out of a job."
For the next sixteen years, Donovan was a staple on KYGO, which was both Denver's most successful country outlet and among the market's top stations overall. But in 2012, his second wife, who worked for the State Department, was transferred to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. They relocated to Africa, and when her next assignment took her to Washington, D.C., he followed her, resuming his radio career as a disc jockey for a country outlet there.
Donovan understands why fans of Franks, Gatschet, Goldwasser and Santana are upset that they're no longer part of KUVO."I am very sensitive to that and can definitely relate to the listeners experiencing loss around the host departures," he says."The jazz community has such passion and such a connection to the music, and the host — that's your companion on the radio.
"Historically, jazz has always changed," Donovan points out."It went from Dixieland to big band to swing to bebop. Back in the day, a lot of musicians didn't embrace the bebop sound. And look at all the different styles that Miles Davis played from where he started to where he landed."
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