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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Milt, Clark And Doc On The Road In The 30s & 40s
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, jazz legends Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham and others tell stories of life on the road. And these jazz greats take to the stage with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in performances recorded live at The Landing. Our show features recordings from the Riverwalk Jazz archive and audiotape courtesy of National Public Radio. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Unsung Songwriters: The Great Craftsmen
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Don Mopsick
We know about the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin—but who were the hardworking, yet little-known craftsmen of song responsible for penning the vast body of work known as “jazz standards” of the golden age? The lyrics of these songs may be rich with romance, a silly Marx Brothers ditty, or even a “torchy” lament of lost love. But the melodies capture the rhythmic bounce of America in love with its own happy-go-lucky optimism. Most were written in the era ...
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Pandora's Biggest Weakness, Potential Opportunity
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HypeBot
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Pandora has evolved during its tumultuous, decade long rise to ascendancy in the Internet radio sector, but the product is not perfect. Avid users lament about the repetitious nature of their custom stations and their tendency to pander toward certain artists. The alternative rock band Weezer, for example, is a chameleon whose wide ranging and popular songs eventually squeeze their way into any station. Furthermore, custom stations that ...
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SiriusXM Takes On Pandora, Custom Radio with MySXM Powered by the Echo Nest
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HypeBot
The music service with more paid subscribers than any other is taking direct aim at Pandora and other custom music stream providers. Today satellite broadcaster SiriusXM launched MySXM which, with some help from The Echo Nest, allows users to customize the mix of 50+ SiriusXM music channels. When listeners first start listening to a MySXM channel, they hear curated programming from the regular SiriusXM broadcast channel. By using sliders the user can personalize the stream thanks The Echo Nest music ...
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Dexter Gordon Tribute - Abu Dhabi Classic FM April 14-18, 2013 | 11am-2pm EST
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Woody Shaw III
Dex Music LLC is proud to announce that in honor of Dexter Gordon's 90th anniversary celebration, Abu Dhabi Classic FM will host a daily tribute broadcast to Dexter Gordon beginning this Sunday, April 14 through Thursday, April 18, 2013, between 11AM and 2PM EST (daily). This is the first organized debut program honoring Dexter Gordon in the UAE and we are excited and honored to be building new audiences abroad. Please spread the word and help us celebrate Dexter's illustrious ...
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Radio Arts Foundation's New Station Goes Live
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Since the sale of the former KFUO (aka Classic 99) to new owners back in 2010, there's been no local classical music programming on broadcast radio in St. Louis. Today, classical music radio came back to the airwaves here in the form of a new station run by the Radio Arts Foundation, and it's bringing a bit of jazz with it. Broadcasting on analog FM at 107.3; on HD radio at 96.3-HD2; and streaming online at rafstl.org, “The Classical Station" ...
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New Research: Musicians Should Seek Traditional Radio Play While Pursuing Internet Opportunities
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HypeBot
Though research studies often conflict, recent research related to music listening habits make it clear that traditional radio, including traditional radio being streamed on the web, remains a dominant source of streaming music and music discovery. Yet pure play internet radio's audience is growing and younger people are gradually shifting away from traditional AM/FM radio to listening to such services even in autos. Aggregated data points indicate that musicians should continue to seek traditional radio play while exploring newer internet-based ...
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Clarinet Marmalade This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers an exploration of great pre-WWII voices of jazz clarinet with the help of prominent contemporary exponents of the “old school." Evan Christopher, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern and Ken Peplowski (pictured at right) perform with the Band and talk about their mentors and influences. 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 ...
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