Cityscape
Best Radio DJ: Jamal Ahmed
Staff Pick
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WCLK-FM 91.9
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West End/Atlanta University
111 James P. Brawley Drive -
404-880-8284
- www.wclk.com
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West End/Atlanta University
Now that JAMAL AHMED has returned to the airwaves of WCLK-FM (91.9), Atlanta can exhale. The DJ/on-air personality of 12 years left in early 2007, amid the community-funded station’s scramble to program more pure jazz in response to membership polls. With Ahmed’s departure, it was like the self-proclaimed “jazz voice of the city” lost its soul – literally. His long-running program “S.O.U.L.” (Sounds Of Universal Love) had grown an international reputation and served as an incubator in the late ’90s for the city’s underground soul scene. Through “S.O.U.L.,” Ahmed fed listeners an eclectic diet of acid jazz and international remixes. Since his return four months ago to host “The Soul of Jazz” weekdays from 3-6 p.m., the station has received “some tremendously great feedback,” according to station manager Shed Jackson. Sounds like WCLK’s got its groove back.
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Previously in Best of Atlanta
- 2010 Best radio DJ - Bert Weiss
- 2009 Best radio DJ - Mara Davis, Dave FM 92.9 (WZGC-FM)
- 2008 Best Radio DJ - Mara Davis on Dave FM (92.9)
- 2007 Best Radio DJ - Mara Davis, Dave FM
- 2006 Best Radio DJ - Aaron Hickman
- 2006 Best Radio DJ - Marvin Evangelista
- 2005 Best Radio DJ - “The Bert Show” (Bert Weiss)
