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Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the music of songwriters Vincent Youmans, Johnny Green and Harry Barris. Special guests Shelly Berg and Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on piano and Topsy Chapman, Marty Grosz and Carol Woods handle the vocals. 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 ...
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Rdio Launches Free Music Streaming in 17 Countries
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HypeBot
Freemium continues to be a popular weapon in the music streaming wars, and today Rdio launched free streams for 6 months in 15 of the 17 countries in which it's available. The markets include the United States (where it's been free since Oct 2011), United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Rdio is not offering the 6 month free in Germany or Brazil. In the other markets new listeners can ...
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NPR Music and WBGO Present The Checkout – Live at Berklee with Jaleel Shaw
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
The Checkout – Live at Berklee, which brings critically acclaimed, New York-based Berklee alumni back to their alma mater for concerts in the Red Room at Cafe 939, continues on Thursday, February 7 with rising alto and soprano saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, a 2000 Berklee graduate. Shaw will be performing with alumnus pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Boris Kozlov, and drummer Johnathan Blake. Presented by NPR Music and WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, the shows will be webcast live worldwide in high definition ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart And Joe Williams
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart and Joe Williams share their music and stories 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 also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Adophus “Doc” Cheatham (1905-1997) was a walking encyclopedia of jazz history. He rubbed shoulders ...
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"Jazz from the Archives" is on Notice
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Over the past several years, I have occasionally alerted Rifftides readers to Jazz From the Archives radio programs created and hosted by Bill Kirchner. Exploring the work of important jazz artists, Bill brings to the shows his skills as a writer and producer and his insights as a big-league saxophonist, arranger and composer with intimate knowledge of the music and its makers. Now, for what appear to be slight financial reasons, the Newark jazz station WBGO is making it impossible ...
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WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM Broadcasts SFJAZZ Center Opening Concert, 1/23, 11PM
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
REMINDER! NPR MUSIC, WBGO AND WWOZ BROADCAST SFJAZZ CENTER OPENING NIGHT CONCERT, JANUARY 23 AT 8PM (PT) WATCH LIVE AT NPR.ORG/MUSIC AND IN NPR MUSIC APPS; LISTEN ON-AIR AT WWOZ 90.7FM NEW ORLEANS, WBGO 88.3FM NEWARK AND OTHER PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS January 18, 2013 – The opening of the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco will bring the country its first free-standing building for jazz and an exciting night for music fans on Wednesday, January 23, at 8 pm (PT). NPR ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Saxophone In Early New Orleans Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with saxophonists Kim Cusack, Vince Giordano, Brian Ogilvie and others to explore the music of early jazz saxophone masters. Our own Ron Hockett shows off his saxophone chops while his clarinet duties are covered by Allan Vaché and Evan Christopher. Bass saxophonist Vince Giordano recalls Adrian Rollini’s pivotal role in the Jazz Age sound of Bix Beiderbecke’s classic recordings. The late clarinet legend Kenny Davern and late former ...
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Stephen Scott Quartet Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 1/18/13
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, January 18th, 2013, 1:00pm Eastern U.S. Featuring The Stephen Scott Quartet With a career that spans decades, Mr. Scott has performed and/or recorded with Jazz legends Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Bennie Golson, Dexter Gordon, Pieces of a Dream, Dr. John and Ron Carter among other musical giants. You might have seen him on The Tonight Show or BET On Jazz or, perhaps, ...
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