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Catherine Russell, Dick Hyman This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Catherine Russell joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with frequent guest artist Dick Hyman on piano, at the historic Pearl Stable in San Antonio. They present a selection of songs from Catherine's recent CDs. Catherine talks about her beginnings as the daughter of a pioneering woman of jazz, to what she looks for in choosing songs and how she feels the spirit of her father in her music. The program is distributed in the US ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 16, 2012
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 11 — Jimmy Owens The Monk Project (IPO) 179 100 +79 3 56 1 2 2 2 1 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 150 153 -3 0 37 1 9 3 5 3 Pat Martino Undeniable: Live At Blues Alley (HighNote) 138 133 +5 0 44 1 9 4 48 — Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin) 132 52 +80 0 45 1 22 5 1 2 Christian McBride Big Band ...
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SiriusXM Launches "Just Jenny" with Jennifer Hutt
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Susan Blond, Inc.
SiriusXM personality, author and television host Jennifer Hutt is hosting Just Jenny, a newly-launched live, daily call-in show airing Monday through Friday from 1:00ר:00 pm ET on SiriusXM Stars (channel 107). On the show, Jennifer tackles subjects you would only think to discuss with your best friends, inviting listeners to engage an honest, humorous dialogue on a variety of topics and issues. Her willingness to talk about everything—from grieving the loss of a parent, to transforming her body and spirit ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Grant Green - Visions
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Fortunately for fans of jazz guitar, much of Grant Green's output for the Blue Note label in the 1960s and 1970s remains in print today. One exception, though, seems to be Visions, a 1971 session that featured the St. Louis native's versions of some then-current pop hits along with a couple of originals and one classical piece. Vinyl copies are scarce, as you'd expect for a 40-year old recording that probably got just one pressing back then. There apparently was ...
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Janis Joplin "The Pearl Sessions" Available Tuesday, April 17
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Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy
LEGACY RECORDINGS COMMEMORATES JANIS JOPLIN'S BIRTHDAY WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PEARL SESSIONS DEFINITIVE TWO-DISC EDITION OF JANIS JOPLIN'S FAREWELL ALBUM MASTERPIECE DEBUTS NEWLY DISCOVERED STUDIO OUTTAKES, BANTER & RARITIES INCLUDING NINE PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE TRACKS Janis Joplin—The Pearl Sessions—Available Everywhere Tuesday, April 17, 2012 On the occasion of Janis Joplin's birthday (January 19), Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the upcoming release of The Pearl Sessions, a newly-curated definitive two-disc edition of Joplin's final studio album premiering, for the first time, ...
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Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
Source:
Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris offers a glimpse of Art Tatum through the words of jazz musicians who knew him, and noted pianist Shelly Berg performs Tatum masterworks with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Squarely grounded in the stride piano style of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, Art Tatum took solo ...
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Wilco: iTunes Session
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JamBase
PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE AT THE ITUNES STORE Recorded at Wilco's famed Chicago loft just a few days before Christmas, and on the eve of the band's sold-out “Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago," a new Wilco iTunes session is available for pre-order now, exclusively at itunes.com/wilco. The 8-song album features new versions of “Dawned On Me," “Born Alone," “I Might," “Black Moon," and “Whole Love" from Wilco's latest, the Grammy-nominated album The Whole Love. The iTunes session also features new recordings ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 9, 2012
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 155 150 +5 0 52 1 13 2 13 12 James Carter At The Crossroads (Emarcy) 153 102 +51 1 44 2 10 2 1 4 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 153 169 -16 0 42 1 8 4 7 5 George Benson Guitar Man (Concord Jazz) 141 123 +18 0 37 2 13 5 3 3 Pat Martino Undeniable: ...
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