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WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM Announces The Jazz Bee, HD Radio Channel
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO Proudly Announces the jazz bee, A New Showcase for Emerging Jazz and Artists Available 24 Hours A Day at 88.3 HD-2 and WBGO.org NEWARK, NJ: the jazz bee, WBGO’s new showcase for emerging jazz artists, is now being broadcast digitally 24 hours a day at 88.3 HD-2 in the New York City area and worldwide through wbgo.org, it was announced by Cephas Bowles, President and Chief Executive Officer of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM. The new channel is also a ...
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Remembering Ralph Sutton This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
In an encore presentation this week, Riverwalk Jazz presents pianist Ralph Sutton’s 2000 visit to The Landing in San Antonio with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Between tunes, Sutton talked with host David Holt about his early experiences and influences and how he came to join Jack Teagarden’s band. Longtime Jim Cullum Jazz Band pianist John Sheridan shares a story about an afternoon lesson with Sutton in San Antonio. Sutton offers rarely-heard stride piano repertoire including Fats Waller’s “Clothesline Ballet” ...
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Lil Hardin's Life With Louis Armstrong This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz we hear the story of Lil Hardin's life with Louis Armstrong in rare interviews first released by Riverside Records in the 1950s. Trumpeters Duke Heitger and Bob Barnard join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to perform pieces composed by Armstrong and Armstrong. 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. Louis Armstrong and Lil Hardin were as different ...
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Jim Cullum Jazz Band At Stanford Jazz Workshop This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band presents a collection of early jazz classics from New Orleans and beyond. It's a summer concert captured live at the Stanford Jazz Workshop with Evan Christopher on clarinet. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band brings a fresh approach to its classic repertoire in nightly performances in San Antonio and on our show. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Hamiet Bluiett - Endangered Species
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this edition of the Audio Archive, we continue this weekend's focus on the great baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett by spotlighting Endangered Species, his recording debut as a leader. Originally issued in 1976 by the now-defunct India Navigation label and out of print for many years, Endangered Species has been preserved online thanks to the efforts of music sharing blogs including Free The Music, where yr. humble StLJN editor found the file. In addition to Bluiett on baritone sax and ...
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Pop up Project Seeks Musicians for Experimental Jam Session This Friday
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This just in: The POP UP project, co-curated by local artists Kate King and Sam Davis, is looking for musicians to participate in an “Experimental Music Jam" starting at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, June 22 at 7411 S. Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood. King tells StLJN that the POP UP project “was created to stimulate a cultural community in underserved areas through the use of emerging talent and unoccupied space." The jam session is one of a series of events ...
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Class Of 39: Lindy Hopping Down The Yellow Brick Road
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Don Mopsick
A decade after the crash that caused the Great Depression, Americans were eager to embrace a new sense of hope. In 1939, some of the best movies and pop songs of all time lightened the load for the 17.2 % of the population still without a job. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, performances by guest artists Lionel Hampton, Bob Barnard, Dick Hyman and Brian Ogilivie track the state of jazz music in 1939 with popular songs heard that year on ...
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WGBH FM Boston Cuts Prestigious Jazz Programs Featuring Eric Jackson And Steve Schwartz
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Sue Auclair Promotions
Local and National Jazz Communities Express Outrage Boston, MA: WGBH FM a long-time key provider of highly respected jazz programming in Boston, today notified jazz hosts Eric Jackson and Steve Schwartz that their shows would be discontinued as they currently exist, beginning July 1, 2012. Schwartz's Friday night show which has aired for 27 years will be cut altogether, while Eric Jackson's 30 year show which currently airs Mondays through Thursdays from 8pm to Midnight will now exist only on ...
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