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Rockwired.com All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Features Steve Tyrell and his Forthcoming Release "I'll Take Romance"!!!
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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 romance crooner Steve Tyrell regarding his brand new release I'll Take Romance. In the opening segment, Tyrell discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new CD, comining up as a hot shot producer and working with Brill Building luminaries such as Cynthis Weill and Barry Mann and paying homage to ...
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Rockwired.Com's 'All New Jazzed and Blue Features The Nick Moran Trio and Their Latest Release "No Time Like Now"
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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 jazz guitarist Nick Moran of The Nick Moran Trio regarding his brand new release No Time Like Now. In the opening segment, Moran discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new CD, working with his trio comprised of organist Brad Whiteley and drummer Chris Benham and his affinity for the ...
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Salute to The Rhythmakers This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans-based trumpeter Duke Heitger, along with Bay Area guitarist Clint Baker, join the Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a tribute to the remarkable set of hot 1932 recordings known today as The Rhythmakers. 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 all started with a routine business trip to Cleveland for jazz impresario Irving Mills, who ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 23, 2012
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 11 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 209 179 +30 0 50 1 3 2 12 32 Chick Corea Further Explorations (Concord Jazz) 148 115 +33 1 44 2 3 3 2 2 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 137 150 -13 0 38 1 10 4 39 — Gary Smulyan Smul's Paradise (Capri) 130 55 +75 1 47 4 2 4 5 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good ...
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Great Jazz Vocalist Performs Worldwide On WLRN's South Fla. Arts Beat
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Featuring Wendy Pedersen One of South Florida's treasured musicians, Wendy Pedersen is a mainstay of the local music scene. A graduate of The University of Miami's Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program, she has won numerous awards over her years of singing. Among them the Southern Bell/P.A.C.E. Jazz Artist of the Year and Best Vocalist from Miami New Times, which ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: John Hicks - Hells Bells
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For today's Audio Archive post, we feature Hells Bells, the very first session recorded as a bandleader by the late pianist and former St. Louisan John Hicks. Hells Bells—spelled without the apostrophe on the album cover (pictured), but sometimes with it in other references—was recorded in 1975 for trumpeter Charles Tolliver's Strata-East label, though it wasn't issued until 1978. There was a CD reissue of the album in 2000 by the Charly label, which now is out of print. As ...
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Breakthru Radio's "The Jazz Hole" Celebrates 3rd Anniversary
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Linus Wyrsch
New York, NY—BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the world's leading source for the best independent music on the Internet using a unique on-demand programming approach. Three years ago, on February 1st 2009, Linus Wyrsch joined the team of DJs and took over the bi-weekly jazz show “The Jazz Hole." Being a sought-after musician himself in the Big Apple, Linus embraces a unique relationship with the style and its musicians, consequently providing the listeners with a backstage pass to the New Yorker ...
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Rockwired.Com's 'All New Jazzed and Blue - Profiles in Blues and Jazz' Profiles Grammy-Winning Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan and His Latest Release "Smul's Paradise"
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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 Grammy-winning baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan regarding his brand new release Smul's Paradise. In the opening segment, Smulyan discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new CD, working with Mike LeDonne, Peter Bernstein and Kenny Washington and his affinity for the organ jazz trio sound. The second half of this edition ...
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