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Jazz programming on WGBH-FM being scaled back, a blow to local jazz fans
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Michael Ricci
To the consternation of loyal listeners, WGBH-FM (89.7) is dropping jazz programming on weeknights, moving longtime host Eric Jackson to weekend duties only, and eliminating Steve Schwartz’s Friday show. The changes, some of which take effect July 2, come amid an expansion of National Public Radio programming on WGBH, including additional broadcasts of “Marketplace” and extending “Morning Edition” to four hours per weekday. But what the station is calling “a new focus on jazz” amounts to a serious downscaling of ...
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Reuben Hoch's Adrenaline Jazz Trio Performs On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 6/15/12
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Ed Bell
Please tune in for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, June 15th, 2012 With REUBEN HOCH AND ADRENALINE JAZZ Are you ready to hear traditional Jewish melodies in a Jam band format? Please join our audience for this swingin’ trio comprised of drummer Reuben Hoch (Greg Osby, Leni Stern, Lonnie Plaxico), Hammond B3 guru Ken Burkhart (Jazzberry Patch) and eight-string guitarist Tom Lippincott (Dave Liebman, Don Friedman, Ed Schuller). Each ...
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The Story Of Clarence Williams This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz looks at both sides of the Clarence Williams legacy. New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman and Broadway’s Vernel Bagneris lend their acting and vocal talents to this week's show as they join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for Gulf Coast Blues: The Clarence Williams Story. 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. Did he make a significant contribution as a ...
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Web-based Radio Station Jet City Stream Exposes Thrilling New Seattle Talent, From Blues To Rock To Hip-hop
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Lauren Rogers
In the Emerald City, the slamming power pop and fuzz-bomb rock of Nirvana is now a faint echo of the past. It was only two decades ago when Seattle nearly ruled the world, when the technological advances of the Internet catapulted Microsoft into global dominance, when the town’s basketball and baseball teams thrust a refuse to lose underdog spirit into the playoffs, when grunge toppled Michael Jackson on the Billboard charts. One by one, it all fell apart. The Sonics ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of '26: Soundtrack Of The Jazz Age
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman, actor/playwright Vernel Bagneris, guitarist/singer/raconteur Marty Grosz, cornetist Bob Barnard and fiddler Andy Stein join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the Class of '26: The Soundtrack of the Jazz Age. 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. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, Wheatena was on the breakfast table, and for ...
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Johnny Hartman Feature Ahead Of New Book
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Gregg Akkerman
Radio host Bill McCann will air a Johnny Hartman feature on his June 23 “Saturday Morning Edition of Jazz" show in acknowledgement of the artist's 89th birthday and an upcoming book. Heard on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York, McCann will include guests Tom Pierce and Gregg Akkerman. Piece will contribute his recollections of seeing Hartman perform before the jazz singer died in 1983 from cancer. Akkerman will feature anecdotes from his upcoming book The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman ...
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Fats Waller Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
On Memorial Day Weekend 1989, Riverwalk Jazz made its national debut. This week, to celebrate over twenty years on the air, we revisit our first national broadcast, a program with piano legend Dick Hyman devoted to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller. Since that first national broadcast, Dick Hyman has joined us for so many radio shows that we sometimes think of him as the eighth member of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Dick is a renowned specialist in historical piano jazz styles; ...
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Hot Club Of San Francisco On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, acouistic guitarist Paul Mehling and the Hot Club of San Francisco join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the great Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. 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. Think of 20th century guitar greats—Charlie Christian, B. B. King, Bucky Pizzarelli and Les Paul—they all have one thing in common. Each one of ...
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