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Benny Goodman Small Combos Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, guests Allan Vaché and Chuck Hedges on clarinet, vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, and John Sheridan on piano join the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a tribute to the Benny Goodman small combos. 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. In ...
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WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 Receives Eight Honors from Public Radio News Directors, Inc.
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM received eight national Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Awards Saturday, June 22, in Cleveland, Ohio. WBGO News Director Doug Doyle accepted four First Place and four Second Place awards on behalf of the station. “The WBGO News Department was recognized for what we do best, covering the stories that matter the most to our listeners and presenting them in thoughtful and informative ways," said Doyle. “To share a little of the ...
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Sachal Vasandani Guest DJ!
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Paul Goldstein
The Jazz Groove announced today that one of the most important jazz singers of our time, Sachal Vasandani, will host his own two-hour radio special. Mr. Vasandani will talk about and play music he has chosen including artists such as Ben Wendel, Gerald Clayton, The New York Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, Ahmad Jamal, Freddie Hubbard, his own music and many other artists. Mr. Vasandani commented, “Choosing songs for The Jazz Groove radio show was a challenge, because so much has influenced ...
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Riverwalk Jazz BBQ This Week
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Don Mopsick
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band swings their way through some of your favorite warm-weather tunes this week on Riverwalk 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. Jim and the Band light up the sky with a number Louis Armstrong recorded with his Hot ...
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Getting Sensible About Pandora Royalties: An Analysis by Jay Frank
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HypeBot
By Jay Frank (@Repojay), Owner and CEO of DigSin. Pandora royalties came under fire once again last week, with a firestorm of blog posts pointing a ton of virtual fingers. Facts become “facts" as each side is skewing the story to their benefit. All sides should take equal blame for misrepresentation. The truth is that online plays equal audience impressions, and this disparity causes confusion on both sides. When you do the actual math, Pandora is likely paying songwriters less ...
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"Originals By Originals" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, jazz legends perform their own compositions with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. We dig into the archive for “Originals by Originals." 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. Improvisation is “composition on the fly.” The jazz musician’s lifelong mission ...
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Shorty Rogers: Rock Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Shorty Rogers led a double life in the 1950s. By day, he was one of West Coast jazz's founding fathers—standing out as a dynamic bandleader and prolific big-band and small-group arranger. On his off hours, he had an alter-ego—Boots Brown, an early rock-and-roller who recorded about a dozen jump-boogie singles. Why Rogers bothered and went incognito to do so has been something of a mystery. Did he really need the money? Or was he simply gaslighting the music industry—showing executives ...
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Tio Family Clarinet Dynasty This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
It’s the story of The Tio Family, a New Orleans clarinet dynasty, this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes Evan Christopher, a dynamic New Orleans-based clarinetist and student of early 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. The Tio ...
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