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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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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Battle Of The Bands With Banu Gibson, Savion Glover & William Warfield
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Don Mopsick
Riverwalk Jazz this week presents an old-fashioned Battle of the Bands pitting the Jim Cullum Jazz Band against Banu Gibson and her New Orleans Hot Jazz. 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 Sound. Early 20th-century New Orleans demanded live music for almost every occasion, ...
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Host Lee Williams Launches New Internet Jazz Station at Live365
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Wm Kauffman
Hello Jazz Listeners, This is an introduction to a new Internet Jazz Radio Station based in New Jersey that was launched on August 15, 2013. The programming consists mostly of mainstream / traditional Jazz but also includes some Blues, Gospel (accented with a few Jazz artists) and occasional R & B / Pop tunes just to add a little flavor. Actually many jazz musicians play in more than one genre and it’s almost necessary to be able to do that ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 7, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 289 254 +35 6 54 1 3 2 1 2 Kenny Burrell Special Requests (HighNote) 255 265 -10 0 48 1 7 3 4 3 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 241 234 +7 1 45 3 5 4 10 4 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 227 183 +44 6 44 4 2 5 6 5 New Gary Burton ...
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The Joe Chambers Radio Special On WCOM-FM On November 17, 2013!
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Larry Reni Thomas
Listen to “Sunday Night Jazz" November 17, 2013, 9pm-12mid, on WCOM-FM, 103.5 FM, for THE JOE CHAMBERS RADIO SPECIAL, a three hour long program, featuring Chambers's music and an interview with the twice Grammy-nominated legendary musician, composer and educator. Chambers has recorded as a sideman, a drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist, and a leader on more than 500 albums and CDs, and has performed with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillispie, and others, Joe is scheduled to talk about his recent teaching projects, including ...
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