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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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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 20, 2012
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 194 210 -16 0 47 1 7 2 2 2 Bruce Babad A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane) 176 178 -2 1 43 2 6 3 3 3 Gary Smulyan Smul's Paradise (Capri) 162 147 +15 0 44 3 6 4 8 — Catherine Russell Strictly Romancin' (World Village) 156 118 +38 2 37 4 2 5 14 10 Christian McBride ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Oliver Lake - Ntu: The Point from Which Creation Begins
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As Black History Month winds down for this year, it seems an appropriate time to revisit an historic session involving musicians from St. Louis' original Black Artists Group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Recorded in 1971 here in St. Louis, saxophonist Oliver Lake's album Ntu: The Point From Which Creation Begins was issued in 1976 on the Arista Freedom label, which was putting out a lot of avant-garde and “loft" jazz around that time. It's been out of ...
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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Features Jazz Saxophonist Hulon and His Latest Release "After Hours"
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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 saxophonist Hulon regarding his brand new release After Hours. In the opening segment, Hulon discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new project, collaborating with fellow saxophonist and mentor Steve Kashiwa and balancing his passion for music with his own medical practice. The second half of this edition of ...
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"Porgy and Bess" Part 2 This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
Source:
Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz offers an encore presentation of the concluding episode in George Gershwin's folk opera, Porgy and Bess, featuring acting legend William Warfield as narrator. This two-part series features an original jazz transcription of the music from Porgy and Bess, created by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and recorded at the Landing in San Antonio in 1992. Among his many accolades, Mr. Warfield is known for his 1950s role as Porgy on Broadway opposite Leontyne Price. The program ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 13, 2012
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 210 207 +3 0 58 1 6 2 2 4 Bruce Babad A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane) 178 169 +9 0 48 2 5 3 3 6 Gary Smulyan Smul's Paradise (Capri) 147 155 -8 0 48 3 5 4 5 3 Chick Corea Further Explorations (Concord Jazz) 133 142 -9 0 46 2 6 5 10 13 Jack DeJohnette Sound Travels ...
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