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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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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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