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Tribute to Gennett Records This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Riverwalk Jazz this week pays tribute to the Gennett recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, one of the pioneering documentors of early jazz. The show features musical guests Duke Heitger, Dick Hyman and Nicholas Payton, among others. 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. Between 1922 and 1928, a ragtag recording studio in rural Richmond, Indiana, became a focal point for a ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 31, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 11 31 Tony Bennett Duets II (RPM / Columbia) 269 140 +129 7 56 1 6 2 17 27 Kyle Eastwood Songs From The Chateau (Mack Avenue) 186 117 +69 0 60 2 9 3 2 1 Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard Chano y Dizzy (Concord Jazz) 179 222 -43 0 57 1 6 4 1 3 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 177 231 -54 0 51 ...
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The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions (2011)
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Something Else!
By Matt Reynolds The year was 1966, and the Beach Boys were riding a wave of energy across the musical landscape of the times. The Hawthorne, California quintet's sound was evolving into one of the most respected and unique in the industry after the release earlier that year of its now profoundly important album Pet Sounds. In a few short years, the Beach Boys had transformed from a pop band with catchy harmonies and songs about surfing, cars and teen-love, ...
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Catherine Russell and Dick Hyman Jam Session This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
On Riverwalk Jazz on public radio, the scene for this week's jam session is Pearl Stable on the grounds of Pearl Brewery built in 1883 along the east bank of the San Antonio River, close to downtown. A functioning brewery for more than 100 years, the complex was reborn in 2002 as a 22-acre culinary and cultural gathering place along the extended Paseo del Rio—River Walk. The oval-shaped Pearl Stable, now a state-of-the-art venue, once housed draft horses delivering Pearl ...
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Sirius Might Be Staring at Its Own 'Netflix Moment'...
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Digital Music News
If you love your Sirius XM, then you probably love music just as much. Which means you have lots of options at your fingertips, most of them free. Sure, Sirius curates the chaos, but do you need that curation, especially when it's not your only hangout? Can you live without your Stern, your MLB, your Shade45? Well, Sirius is about to test its listener loyalty like never before. And if you don't think these are fragile consumer relationships,just ask Netflix. ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 24, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 7 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 231 191 +40 1 56 1 4 2 1 8 Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard Chano y Dizzy (Concord Jazz) 222 214 +8 1 61 1 5 3 10 11 Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues (Reprise) 177 156 +21 1 44 3 6 4 4 2 Warren Wolf Warren ...
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Rockwired.com Presents: The Best of Jazzed and Blue Featuring Exclusive Interviews with Jazz Legend Diane Schuur, the Intoxicating Brazilian Sounds of Mozik and the American Indian Jazz Combo Red Hot and Red
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Rockwired Media LLC
The latest edition of Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features exclusive interviews with Jazz Legend Diane Schuur, the Intoxicating Brazilian Sounds of Mozik and the American Indian Jazz Combo Red Hot and Red. The Gathering was recorded almost entirely in one day in early December in Nashville, TN. The singer has always wanted to record there and work with some of the city's top musicians. Her new association with ...
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Clear Channel Radio Has Efficiently Eliminated Your Position...
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Digital Music News
Ah, that authentic, local radio flavor, as only a highly-efficient programming restrategization can deliver. We're not sure exactly what the retooled strategy is, though we do know that Clear Channel Radio is now chopping hundreds of station positions, according to early estimates. “It looks like a huge rank-and-file chop across radio stations' personel," one source told Digital Music News on Wednesday. It seems like one of those dreary days, or weeks. “They simply told me that programming would be delivered ...
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