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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
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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
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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) 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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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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