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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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WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category At NYABJ Awards
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category at NY Association of Black Journalists Awards NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 swept the Radio Category with First Place honors in General News, Public Affairs and Arts & Entertainment at the 2012 New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 15, at The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York. NYABJ recognizes the best in Print, New Media, Radio, Magazine and Television ...
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Sidney Bechet Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
The largely self-taught New Orleans reedman Sidney Bechet developed one of the most distinctive solo voices in jazz. Unlike Louis Armstrong, Bechet never achieved stardom in the United States. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway’s Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and reedman Bob Wilber to explore Bechet's musical legacy. 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. Born in 1897 ...
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Live Jazz Performance On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 5/11/12
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Radio Jazz Guy
Please tune in and join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, May 11th, 2012 With MIKE LEVINE This great music educator/composer/pianist has been a stalwart of South Florida’s Jazz scene for decades. With numerous recordings under his belt, his latest, Thinking of You (Downtimes Productions), features Mike’s signature brand of contemporary, melodic Jazz, Rhythm and Blues and Latin influences so synonymous with “the Miami sound.” Loaded with South Florida’s “first-call” musicians, his ...
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Sirius: The Future Belongs to Those Who Curate...
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Digital Music News
Sirius XM Radio is lucky to be alive, and their growth hasn't been cheap. But with 22.3 million subscribers, this is easily the largest music subscription service in the world. In fact, they have roughly seven times the global subscriber base of Spotify, and Sirius chairman Mel Karmazin recently claimed to have more subscribers than all other music services combined. The stats solidly back that claim. Which means, Sirius knows something about curating content and monetizing the music consumer, despite ...
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JPortal Injects Indie D.I.Y. Bands into Live Radio
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HypeBot
It's a problem that exists all around the world: Radio stations can only play one song at a time, and those songs tend to be the ones that a person or algorithm has already decided is worthy of airplay. We all know there's plenty of great new stuff sitting there, but it's not always easy to find—especially in a radio context. So how can radio listeners, which comprise a large percentage of music listeners both online and off, ever find ...
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Trumpeter Bria Skonberg This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
In his book Preservation Hall, author William Carter asks whether traditional jazz will die out with the current generation, or “re-seed itself?” This week on Riverwalk Jazz, trumpeter Bria Skonberg, one of a new generation of gifted 20-something players, visits the stage of The Landing to perform classic jazz with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. 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. ...
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WBGO Interviews/music From International Jazz Day, New Orleans Tonight At 6:30
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM Continues Its Celebration of International Jazz Day Today at 6:30 pm with Broadcast of Herbie Hancock’s Sunrise Concert in New Orleans NEWARK, NJ: WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM continues its celebration of International Jazz Day today at 6:30 pm with a special broadcast of Herbie Hancock’s sunrise performance in New Orleans. WBGO’s Josh Jackson enjoyed the early morning festivities and taped interviews with Hancock in Congo Square as well as with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, Tom Carter (President ...
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