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"Another Kind Of Funky Drummer", A Tribute To Ronald Shannon Jackson On WPFW This Friday Night
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Chris Rich
Tune in to WPFW radio’s Overnight Jazz Part I, this Friday beginning at 12AM (midnight) for “Another Kind of Funky Drummer”, a tribute to Ronald Shannon Jackson, who passed into ancestry this past weekend. In addition to the varied Jackson music to be heard as presented by program host Bobby Hill, the program will also feature a rare, never before heard 1983 interview with the gifted drummer, as conducted by university professor, archivist, and legacy WPFW programmer Art Cromwell. Art’s ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 28, 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) 286 318 -32 0 55 1 6 2 2 2 Steve Turre The Bones Of Art (HighNote) 263 301 -38 3 59 2 5 3 3 3 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 251 269 -18 4 50 2 5 4 4 4 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 223 232 -9 2 47 3 8 5 7 5 Tierney ...
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Songwriting Bandleaders Of The Swing Era This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalist and Arbors recording artist Rebecca Kilgore joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate Songwriting Bandleaders of the Swing Era with music by Ray Noble, Isham Jones, Artie Shaw and Duke Ellington. 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 Recorded ...
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Rockwired.com Re-launches Weekly 90 Minute Podcast Jazzed And Blue And Will Launch Bi-monthly Magazine In January 2014
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Rockwired Media LLC
Since 2005, Rockwired.com has provided exciting musical reportage with it's daily podcast Rockwired Radio Profiles and its monthly digital Rockwired Radio Profiles and it's monthly digital publication Rockwired Magazine. Now Rockwired re-embraces it's jazzier side with the relaunch of it's weekly 90 minute podcast Jazzed and Blue. The show returns on November 10, 2013 and will be available exclusively at Rockwired.com ever Sunday afterward. The podcast will be available for listening and downloading by 12:00pm (MST). For Rockwired founder Brian ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 21, 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) 318 289 +29 2 53 1 5 2 6 2 Steve Turre The Bones Of Art (HighNote) 301 196 +105 7 60 2 4 3 2 3 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 269 249 +20 3 46 2 4 4 3 4 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 232 231 +1 2 51 3 7 5 9 5 ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Great Innovator---benny Goodman
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Don Mopsick
Benny Goodman, the clarinet virtuoso from Chicago, became a central figure of the Swing Era and popularized the jazz form with a worldwide audience in the 1930s and beyond. To celebrate Goodman’s innovative style, Riverwalk Jazz has assembled performances and stories from our stable of jazz greats drawn into his orbit—Lionel Hampton, Doc Cheatham, Helen Ward—and our own Ron Hockett and Jim Cullum. In 20 years of Riverwalk Jazz radio broadcasts, we’ve welcomed several artists closely associated with Goodman, or ...
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AccuJazz Internet Radio Featuring Melissa Aldana, Other Recent Monk Contest Champs
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Lucas Gillan
AccuJazz Internet Radio is now featuring the music of Melissa Aldana along with other recent winners and finalists of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition on its Emerging Voices channel. The channel has always exclusively played music by the younger generation of musicians, so it is a perfect fit to feature musicians awarded in the contest, which is the jazz world’s highest honor for young jazz artists. As with all AccuJazz Internet Radio channels, Emerging Voices is free to ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 14, 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) 289 289 0 6 59 1 4 2 4 2 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 249 227 +22 4 48 2 3 3 3 3 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 231 241 -10 5 50 3 6 4 2 4 Kenny Burrell Special Requests (HighNote) 216 255 -39 0 46 1 8 5 5 5 New Gary Burton ...
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