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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 18, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 342 316 +26 1 60 1 9 2 2 2 Steve Turre The Bones Of Art (HighNote) 288 267 +21 1 56 2 8 3 3 3 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 263 255 +8 4 50 2 8 4 4 4 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 262 226 +36 5 50 ...
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The Peck Kelley Story On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
Peck Kelley is an iconic figure among jazz musicians, but remains virtually unknown outside a small circle of aficionados. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to tell the story of Peck Kelley and revive the East Texas hot jazz of Peck’s Bad Boys. The broadcast offers listeners an opportunity to listen to a rare recording of Peck Kelley’s piano playing and hear Hyman’s comments on the piano playing of the Texas ...
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Rockwired.com's Jazzed And Blue Presents Music And Exclusive Interviews With Cedric Burnside, Blues Singer-Songwriter Peach, and Jazz Rock Fusion Band Dream Logic
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Rockwired Media LLC
The latest edition of Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features music and exclusive interviews with Cedric Burnside, blues singer-songwriter Peach and jazz rock fusion band Dream Logic. Kicking off this latest edition of Jazzed and Blue is a profile on blues artist Cedric Burnside. As the grandson of the late and most definitely great R.L. Burnside, Cedric is carrying on the family legacy with The Cedric Burnside Project and ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of 1930: Surviving On A Song
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the music that kept America swinging in the Great Depression with special guest vocalists Nina Ferro and Vernel Bagneris and a special appearance by blues legend Jay McShann. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 11, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 316 300 +16 1 59 1 8 2 3 2 Steve Turre The Bones Of Art (HighNote) 267 255 +12 1 55 2 7 3 2 3 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 255 273 -18 1 53 2 7 4 8 4 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio (Whaling City Sound) 226 190 +36 3 53 ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 4, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 300 286 +14 4 53 1 7 2 3 2 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 273 251 +22 2 54 2 6 3 2 3 Steve Turre The Bones Of Art (HighNote) 255 263 -8 3 54 2 6 4 11 4 Geri Allen Grand River Crossings (Motema) 221 169 +52 0 44 4 5 5 9 5 Joey DeFrancesco One ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Wizard Of Oz With Vernel Bagneris
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes to life as Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris portrays all the characters of Oz in a new script for radio based on the original L. Frank Baum book. The brilliance of Harold Arlen’s art as a songwriter is displayed in new jazz arrangements and performances by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, of Arlen’s music from the movie score. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on ...
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Jonathan Batiste Talks To All About Jazz
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Alan Bryson
Jonathan Batiste is a graduate of the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts with a masters degree from Julliard in jazz and classical piano. But don’t let the elite degrees fool you, as a native of New Orleans, Batiste is equally at home making music in the streets or on the concert stage. His band named “Stay Human," do just that. They've recently released their breakout album entitled Social Music. It’s music without borders or labels, pure integrity. Alan ...
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