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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Features Endangered Speeches and Their Debut CD "The City is Rough"
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Rockwired Media LLC
The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with keyboardist Michael Hurwitz of the the 13-piece, international band Endangered Speeches regarding their mesmerizing debut CD 'The City is Rough.' In the opening segment, Hurwitz discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of their new project and the creative process that brings about such compelling music. The second half of this edition ...
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Reluctant Genius of Jazz: Artie Shaw on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
Artie Shaw was one of the top-grossing stars of the 1930s and the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." To celebrate the Shaw legacy, Riverwalk's David Holt talks with Tom Nolan, the author of a new biography, Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw. Nolan drew on extended interviews he conducted with Shaw in his home between 1990 and 2004. Also on our broadcast salute to Artie Shaw, clips ...
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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Features Ro Sham Beaux and Their Self-Titled Release!!!
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Rockwired Media LLC
The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features exclusive interviews with the members of Ro Sham Beaux regarding their brand new self-titled release. In the opening segment, the members of Ro Sham Beaux discuss the inspiration behind the tracks of their new project and the creative process that brings about such compelling music. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue ...
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Girl Singers of the Swing Era on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to recall female singers of the Swing Era— from Ella and Billie to Martha Tilton, Ivie Anderson and Helen Humes. Also on our radio show, rare interview clips with Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Tilton and Helen Ward telling their own stories. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
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Audiogalaxy Takes On Pandora, iTunes Match and Major Label Lawyers
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HypeBot
Seattle based Audiogalaxy has launched a free online music streaming and locker service that combines the best of both with iTune's Match and Pandora. Audiogalaxy also seems certain to feel the legal wrath of record labels and other rightholders. “Our service offers music fans a tunable music experience—play your own tracks anywhere without uploading, copying, or syncing, or lean back and start discovering music you don't own via Mixes," said Michael Merhej, the founder of Audiogalaxy. Customers sign up at ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 27, 2012
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 8 Catherine Russell Strictly Romancin' (World Village) 331 156 +175 6 55 1 3 2 2 2 Bruce Babad A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane) 177 176 +1 0 41 2 7 3 10 — Steve Turre Woody's Delight (HighNote) 162 124 +38 1 44 3 2 4 1 1 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 160 194 -34 0 49 1 8 5 19 25 Carmen Lundy ...
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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Features The Jeff Hamilton Trio fro their CD "Red Sparkle" and Oleg Frish for his CD "Bring Me Sunshine"
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Rockwired Media LLC
The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features exclusive interviews with Jeff Hamilton of the Jeff Hamilton Trio regarding their brand new release Red Sparkle and with Russian television personality Oleg Frish regarding his latest release Bring Me Sunshine. In the opening segment, Hamilton discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new project, collaborating with bassist Christopher Luty and pianist Tamir Hendelman ...
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Blues Queens, Cakewalkin’ Babies & Songbirds: A Riverwalk Jazz Salute to Women’s History Month
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Carol Woods portrays women who were seminal figures in jazz with dialogue based on their first-person accounts, and Carol interprets important songs from their careers. 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. It may have been a man's world in the early days of jazz, but tell that to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday—not to mention artists ...
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