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Last Call Late Night Jam This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
December 29, 2011

Often at late night jam sessions, when the bartender is about to give “last call," the best jazz of the evening can be heard and savored. Those who stick around get rewarded with some of the hardest swinging, most creative music there is. It was on a night like this, at the end of the Sacramento Jazz Festival, that we captured these energized performances for broadcast this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public ...

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Pandora Launches Web Hub for Live Concert Series

Source: HypeBot
December 29, 2011

Pandora has announced an online extension of the free, live concert series that the company debuted earlier in the month. The Pandora live concert series hub is currently sponsored by Budweiser. The Pondora live concert series launched in Portland, Ore. on December 13 with Dawes, an emerging rock band from Southern California. As the official launch sponsor, Budweiser presented the inaugural concert free of charge to more than 230 fans, and is now bringing the experience online via the dedicated ...

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Songs That Made the Phones Ring for 2011

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
December 29, 2011

In the spirit of The Masked Announcer, the ancestor Joel Dorn, ace record producer (Atlantic Records, 32Jazz, etc.) who first made his mark on the music spinning platters in Philly and subsequently released a must-have compilation titled “Songs That Made the Phones Light Up," we present our annual “Songs That Made the Phones Ring" listing for 2011. These were the tunes that elicited strong listener response (and made the studio phones light up) on the Ancient Future radio program, hosted ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 19, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
December 27, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 5 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 169 141 +28 0 46 1 7 2 1 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 150 232 -82 0 45 1 12 3 3 7 Pat Martino Undeniable: Live At Blues Alley (HighNote) 140 161 -21 0 41 1 7 4 23 45 Ellis Marsalis A New Orleans Christmas Carol (Elm) 134 87 +47 0 46 4 3 5 8 6 ...

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If You Hated Radio in 2011, then You'll Really Hate Radio in 2012...

Source: Digital Music News
December 24, 2011

Can't get enough of repetitive playlists and huge commercial breaks? Then there's good news: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to leave its ownership rules around terrestrial radio stations unchanged in 2012, while proposing to loosen cross-media ownership restrictions between newspapers, TV stations and radio.

Which means less people owning more stuff, and lots more Maroon 5, Drake, and Lil Wayne. But the FCC found that there are still a “sufficient number of independent radio voices" and competition from other ...

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Wizard of Oz With Vernel Bagneris This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
December 22, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes to life as Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris portrays all the characters in a new script for radio based on the original L. Frank Baum book. Harold Arlen's songs from the 1939 movie score are heard in new jazz arrangements by John Sheridan. 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 Wonderful ...

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Mickey Hart and George Lucas: The Skywalker Sessions

Source: JamBase
December 21, 2011

THE FIRST IN A NEW SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS Fresh off the road from a sold out 15 date tour, Mickey Hart fans can tune in to the first in a series of videos featuring Mickey with director/filmmaker George Lucas telling stories of their work together, the importance of sound in film, and the power of music. “Episode One" finds George & Mickey “Back the Big Room" at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch where Hart recorded the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir and the ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 12, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
December 20, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 232 214 +18 0 61 1 11 2 14 14 John Scofield A Moment's Peace (Emarcy) 168 121 +47 1 51 2 10 3 7 7 Pat Martino Undeniable: Live At Blues Alley (HighNote) 161 153 +8 0 47 1 6 4 5 13 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 141 161 -20 1 43 4 6 5 2 2 ...

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