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Dennis Owsley Seeking Recent Recordings for Updated Jazz History of St. Louis
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Dennis Owsley, host of the Jazz Unlimited program airing at 9:00 p.m. Sunday nights on KWMU (90.7), is preparing to celebrate his 30th year of continuous jazz broadcasting on the station, and to do so, he needs a bit of help from local St. Louis musicians. Owsley, who also wrote the book City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis 1895-1973, is updating his multi-part 1986 radio documentary about the history of jazz in St. Louis, with the ...
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The Memories Of Danny Barker This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week's Riverwalk Jazz features interviews with New Orleans jazz pioneer Danny Barker. The Smithsonian Institution opened the vaults of the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History so that we could present Danny Barker’s authentic New Orleans vernacular as he recollects life in the Crescent City in the early 1900s. 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 ...
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A Riverwalk Jazz Valentine This Week
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Don Mopsick
Valentine’s Day brings out our most sentimental feelings one moment and then inspires the goofiest humor the next. This week, Riverwalk Jazz explores both sides of the coin on our concert of love songs from the interwar years, interpreted by our stable of great performers sitting in with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. 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 ...
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Paulette Dozier Sings On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 2/15/13
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, February 15th, 2013 Featuring PAULETTE DOZIER This renowned Jazz vocalist and stage actor has received acclaim for her recordings and live performances from New York to Italy and South Florida. She has received rave reviews of her stage presentations of Lanie Robertson’s “Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill” which will re-open at The Byron Carlyle Theatre 500 71st Street, Miami, March 8th though ...
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Pandora Shares Impressive January Audience Stats
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HypeBot
Pandora just shared monthly metrics for January 2013. Listener hours for the month hit an impressive 1.39 billion, an increase of 47% from 952 million during the same period last year. Pandora's share of total U.S. radio listening is now at 8.03%, an increase from 5.55% at last year. Active listeners were 65.6 million at the end of January, an increase of 38% from 47.6 million during the same time period last year. Pandora is now releasing key audience metrics ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration
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Don Mopsick
Crescent City Stomp: A Mardi Gras Celebration This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band teams up with New Orleans natives Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris to celebrate the roots of New Orleans 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. They ...
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WBGO Is In The Mood For Love: Send Your Love Today!
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO is in the mood for love! CELEBRATE VALENTINE’S DAY WITH A LOVE LETTER TO WBGO JAZZ 88.3 NEWARK, NJ, February 4, 2013 – Valentine’s Day is coming, and WBGO Jazz 88.3 is in the mood for love. Listeners are invited to submit love letters via email to [email protected] (please write WBGO Love Letter in the subject line), online at wbgo.org/loveletter or by regular mail to: WBGO Love Letter 54 Park Place Newark, NJ 07102 WBGO ...
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Riverwalk Jazz Whenever You Want!
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Don Mopsick
By Mick Carlon The only drawback to my all-time favorite radio show, Riverwalk Jazz, was that I had to wait until Saturday mornings to listen. No longer! Thanks to Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound, twenty five years of this exalted show—over 350 radio shows, over 4,000 song performances—are now available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week on your computer. Bookmark this address: riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu. Presented on two channels, the music never stops. Allow me to quote from ...
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