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NPR Music, WWOZ & WBGO Broadcast SFJAZZ Center Opening Night Concert January 23
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Chris M. Slawecki
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. NPR Music, WWOZ 90.7FM New Orleans and WBGO 88.3FM Newark, will mark the occasion with a live broadcast of the Center’s sold-out Historic Opening Night Concert as a live video stream at NPR.org/music and via NPR Music mobile apps. A live audio broadcast will also air on WWOZ, WBGO, KALW in San Francisco, and ...
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Jazz This Week: Michael Dease with WGHS Jazz Bands, Javier Mendoza's Latin Jazz Experiment, Montez Coleman, Mary Dyson, Joe Mancuso, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The first part of January typically is time off for a lot of touring musicians who'd just as soon stay home as deal with bad weather, audiences suffering from empty pockets or the post-holiday blahs, and so on. So even though the weather in St. Louis actually has been pretty nice for this time of year, it's no surprise that most of this week's jazz and creative music highlights are once again local in origin. Tonight, the jazz/funk/R&B combo Good ...
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Jazz In The Ivy League This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the legacy of classic jazz in the Ivy League. Host David Holt talks with Jim Hayne, a founding member of the Spring Street Stompers at Williams College and who was a a key figure behind the launch of The Landing jazz club more than 40 years ago. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...
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Max Roach Birthday Radio Special With Host Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM 1/13/13
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Larry Reni Thomas
Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, January 13, 2013, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Max Roach Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Max Roach’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Max Roach: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and analysis from Jim Ketch, a trumpet player and a jazz studies professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Dr. Larry Ridley, ...
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Dancehalls, Dives And Bordellos: Early New Orleans Jazz Scenes This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans natives Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to bring to life in narrative and music the atmosphere of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, where strains of early jazz were heard. 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 ...
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Jim Cullum Celebrates 50 Years This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz honors The Jim Cullum Jazz Band tocelebrate its 50th Anniversary in a concert recorded live at The Tobin Estate in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the Band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall to a bull ring in Mexico and concert halls in Siberia. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can ...
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Celebrated Russian TV Personality/Singer Oleg Frish To Host Radio Show In The US
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Muse Media
CELEBRATED RUSSIAN TV PERSONALITY/SINGER OLEG FRISH TO HOST RADIO SHOW IN THE U.S. – WEEKLY PROGRAM TO SERVE AS HOMAGE TO THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK “Very positive and very swinging.” —New York Daily News “He has an appealing voice, his accent is charming, and he swings happily throughout songs.” —Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene New York, NY—Hot on the heels of his critically-acclaimed debut CD in the United States, “Bring Me Sunshine,” and his sold-out runs at New York’s Metropolitan ...
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Toast Of The Nation: NPR Music and WBGO/Jazz 88.3 FM Ring In 2013
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
ALL NIGHT NEW YEAR’S EVE ON TOAST OF THE NATION NPR MUSIC AND WBGO/JAZZ 88.3FM RING IN 2013 WITH PERFORMANCES COAST-TO-COAST BROADCAST AND STREAMED ON MORE THAN 200 STATIONS DECEMBER 31, 9:00 PM – 5:00 AM NEWARK, NJ: Add some jazz and pizazz to your New Year’s Eve with Toast of the Nation, the annual, all-night series of performances ringing in 2013 from east to west, produced by WBGO and NPR Music for NPR stations, Sirius-XM Satellite Radio and NPR ...
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