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STLJN Audio Archive: The Leon Thomas Album
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's installment of the StLJN Audio Archive, we revisit The Leon Thomas Album, originally issued by the late singer and East St. Louisan Leon Thomas in 1970 on the now-defunct Flying Dutchman label. In contrast to Thomas' sparse debut recording. Spirits Known and Unknown, which positioned him as part of the music's avant-garde, his second album as a leader features a full band arranged by saxophonist and St. Louis native Oliver Nelson and including a number of well-known ...
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Dick Hyman's Life In Music This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
In a recent edition of “A Blog Supreme" on NPR Jazz, Dick Hyman was referred to as “A Living, Breathing Encyclopedia Of Jazz." This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates the music of Dick Hyman. Hyman discusses the musical influences that shaped his career, and he joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on pieces by his favorite composers, including George Gershwin, James P. Johnson and Bix Beiderbecke. Dick recalls his long collaboration with the late trumpeter Ruby Braff in a duet with ...
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Anatomy of a Recording Session... "Standard Domain"
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Last December, as saxophonist-educator Paul Carr and his wife Karmen Carr were busily locking down the forthcoming 3rd annual edition of their late winter Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, Paul invited this writer to a recording session for his summer 2012 release Standard Domain. Having worked with Paul and Karmen to develop the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, which arose from the ashes of the late East Coast Jazz Festival, I was also eager to catch at least part of the recording session because ...
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AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches New Orleans Jazz Fest Channel
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Lucas Gillan
The onset of warmer weather can mean only one thing: music festival season is nigh! There may be other joys that Summer brings, but for the folks at AccuJazz Internet Radio it's all about savoring great music in the great outdoors. AccuJazz has a tradition of creating channels dedicated to the jazz festivals they’re most excited about, from Montréal to Monterey, and they're getting ready to offer up updated playlists based on all of this year's big fests, too. The ...
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Topsy Chapman Sings Bessie Smith This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the story of Bessie Smith, dubbed “Empress of the Blues." Contemporary New Orleans vocalist Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to re-interpret classics of early jazz and blues first recorded by Bessie in the 1920s. 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. “Bessie was a queen,” said Ruby Walker, her niece by marriage. “I ...
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Rockwired.com's All New Jazzed And Blue Podcast Presents Kate Mcgarry And Her New Cd 'girl Talk'!!!
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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 vocalist Kate McGarry regarding her latest release 'Girl Talk'. In the opening segment, McGarry discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of her new project and payign homage to jazz music's leading ladies. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music from such jazz and blues artists ...
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Jim Cullum Jazz Band, William Warfield Celebrate King Oliver This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week's Riverwalk Jazz broadcast is an encore presentation featuring theater legend William Warfield (at right). In a performance recorded in 1992, Mr. Warfield brings Joe “King" Oliver's rich correspondence to life.. Also,The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with two long-time leaders of traditional jazz—Bay Area cornetist Leon Oakley and Chicago historian and tuba player Mike Walbridge—to celebrate the legacy of Oliver's recorded work as a composer and ground-breaking bandleader. The program is distributed in the US by Public ...
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Pandora's Choking on Advertising. and It's Getting Worse...
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Digital Music News
Internet radio keeps surging; it appeals to more people now than ever before in history. And one of the biggest beneficiaries (and drivers) of this growth has been Pandora, whose active listener base nearly doubles every year. Yet Pandora is still profitless, still boxed out of Britain, and a dog on Wall Street. So what's wrong with this picture? Part of the problem is an aggressive-and-rising royalty structure, and a cost structure that rises with every new listener. But this ...
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