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Australian Songstress Nina Ferro This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz: Australian songstress Nina Ferro offers up a program of jazz ballads and sophisticated standards. 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. A native of Melbourne, Nina Ferro started singing at the age of 14, and began jazz at the age of 16. Nina was classically trained and participated in a number of choirs, musicals, and elite vocal ...
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WBGO JAZZ 88.3 FM Holds Fifth Annual Coat Drive December 18, 2012 - January 18, 2013
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO Acts As Collection Point for Five Coat Distribution Centers NEWARK, NJ: Everyone deserves to be safe and warm; but due to tough economic times and the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, many of our neighbors can use a helping hand. To bring warmth into the lives of infants, children and adults throughout the area, WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM is hosting its Fifth Annual Coat Drive December 18, 2012- January 18, 2013. “While reports have said that holiday spending is up, ...
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Updated: Royalties Sirius XM Pays Artists, Labels to Rise 37.5%, Soundexchange Responds
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HypeBot
UPDATED: The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has set new statutory royalty rates for satellite radio that will see the percentage of gross revenue paid to artists and labels increase gradually from the current 8% to 11% by 2017. SoundExchange, which collects the royalties had wanted Sirius XM to pay up to 20% by 2017. The Judges determined that the appropriate Section 114(f)(1) rates for Preexisting Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services for 2013-2017 are 9% of Gross Revenues for 2013, 9.5% ...
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Comfort And Joy This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule as Jim Cullum and the Band welcome an all-star cast of jazz players, outstanding vocal artists and one masterful tap dancer to the stage of The Landing to interpret carols and holiday classics in a jazz mood. 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. Tap sensation Savion Glover joins Jim ...
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The "Chromatic" Chet Williamson Now Radio Host On WICN.org
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319 Public Relations
On Monday, December 3, 2013 Chet Williamson made his debut as the new host of the drive time hours of Jazz Matinee. This popular radio show features everything under the umbrella of the great American art form known as jazz, paying particular attention to local, regional, and emerging artists. As both a writer and musician, Williamson brings to the program an extensive knowledge, an insider’s connection, and passion for the music. (He is the author of the Jazz Worcester Real ...
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Unplugged Jazz With Guitarist Marty Grosz This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Riverwalk Jazz this week features a giant of jazz rhythm guitar—Marty Grosz. His career spans over 60 years. Equal parts showman, jazz scholar and raconteur, Marty is a virtuoso in a playing style that’s both timeless and so far off the radar it’s all but lost in today’s music world. 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. If you ask him who ...
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Zach Brock Quartet Featured On WNYC Soundcheck December 10
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Claudia Artzer
Violinist and composer Zach Brock will be at WNYC FM studios in New York City on Monday, December 10 for an interview and performance on the show SOUNDCHECK with host John Schaefer. The session will stream live and air in early January. Catch Zach and his quartet the next day, December 11, at their debut at Jazz Standard. Zach Brock’s first release on the European label Criss Cross Jazz features top-rank musicians Aaron Goldberg on piano, Matt Penman on bass ...
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"Gershwin Cabaret" With Dick Hyman This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
George Gershwin’s bold and innovative compositions embraced high and low culture—and just about everything in between. Gershwin enjoyed giving parties in the living room of his Manhattan penthouse, sitting at the piano entertaining his friends. With a nod to that intimate setting, jazz piano master Dick Hyman joins host David Holt in the studio with “A Gershwin Cabaret for the Holidays." Hyman talks about Gershwin’s music, demonstrates musical examples at the piano, presents favorite performances with The Jim Cullum Jazz ...
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