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"Best of 2011" Radio channels from AccuJazz.com
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Lucas Gillan
Savvy jazz listeners spent much of December poring over hundreds of “Best of 2011" lists, left only to wonder what the vaunted music actually sounded like. To satisfy curious listeners and highlight the excellent music, AccuJazz Internet radio has created a Best of 2011 channel playing the most critically-acclaimed jazz albums released last year. The streaming channel is free to listen to and available 24 hours a day. The channel's programming is based on Francis Davis' Rhapsody.com critics poll (formerly ...
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Live Bates! Bassist Leads His Band Through "Open Sessions"
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Last week, Chris Bates sent out his usual update. But this time, the listing was not so usual. In addition to the gigs in which he plays a critical sideman role, Chris invited us to one of his first forays into bandleading, and not just on a gig. We were invited to a ringside seat of the creative act itself, observing his quintet's first encounter with new music during public rehearsals at Jazz Central. “Attendees will be witness to the ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 6, 2012
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 207 248 -41 0 51 1 5 2 4 11 Bruce Babad A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane) 169 136 +33 0 41 2 4 3 6 4 Gary Smulyan Smul's Paradise (Capri) 155 121 +34 0 48 3 4 4 36 — Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin) 152 60 +92 0 50 1 25 5 3 2 Chick Corea Further Explorations ...
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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Profiles the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo and Their New Release "Afropean Affair"
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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 Oscar Perez of the Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo regarding the brand new release Afropean Affair. In the opening segment, Perez discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new project, working with a stellar combo comprised of saxophonist Stacy Dillard, trumpeter Greg Glassman, percussionist Emiliano Valerio, drummer Jerome Jennings, and bassist ...
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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Profiles Talking Cows and Their New Release "Almost Human"
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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 Robert Vermeulen of the Talking Cows regarding their brand new release Almost Human. In the opening segment, Vermeulen discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of this new project, his rapport with the other members of the band including saxophonist Frans Vermeerssen, drummer Yonga Sun and bassist Dion Nijland and the lunatic ...
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Raditaz: Location-Specific User-Created Radio Stations
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HypeBot
This week I spoke with Tom Brophy, Founder and CEO of Raditaz, a mobile and web-based radio service with a particularly interesting location-based aspect. Raditaz offers the option of creating your own station and listening to stations created by others along with some preprogrammed options. Given that streaming music and the radio metaphor have been explored quite a bit, I found the location elements of special interest. Though, in all honesty, I have not been particularly drawn to location-based check-in ...
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Romance and the Silver Screen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
Source:
Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a Valentine's Day concert of classic love songs side by side with soundtrack clips of love scenes from the films that made them popular hits. 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. The great masters of American songwriting created some of their finest works for romantic movie musicals, and many originally staged on Broadway made their way ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 30, 2012
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 248 209 +39 0 64 1 4 2 4 5 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 151 130 +21 1 37 1 16 3 2 12 Chick Corea Further Explorations (Concord Jazz) 141 148 -7 0 42 2 4 4 11 37 Bruce Babad A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane) 136 113 +23 0 37 4 3 5 10 ...
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