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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 11, 2013

Source: JazzWeek
November 7, 2013

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

Source: JazzWeek
October 31, 2013

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

Source: Don Mopsick
October 31, 2013

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

Source: Alan Bryson
October 28, 2013

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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"Another Kind Of Funky Drummer", A Tribute To Ronald Shannon Jackson On WPFW This Friday Night

Source: Chris Rich
October 24, 2013

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

Source: JazzWeek
October 24, 2013

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

Source: Don Mopsick
October 24, 2013

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

Source: Rockwired Media LLC
October 20, 2013

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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