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Ellington's 3-minute Masterpieces This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest Dick Hyman present a program of jewel-like short jazz pieces from the Duke Ellington repertoire. Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris brings to life scenes from Ellington's legendary life in first-person accounts. Other guests include New Orleans singer Topsy Chapman, trumpeters Nicholas Payton and Clark Terry, and the father-son guitar team of John and Bucky Pizzarelli. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 17, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 8 5 Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard Chano y Dizzy (Concord Jazz) 214 171 +43 0 59 1 4 2 6 7 Roy Haynes Roy-Alty (Dreyfus) 200 182 +18 0 53 2 4 3 7 26 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 191 178 +13 1 51 3 3 4 2 3 Warren Wolf Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue) 188 195 -7 0 47 1 10 5 4 8 ...
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Rockwired.com Presents: The Best of Jazzed and Blue Featuring Exclusive Interviews with Tom Wopat, Marilyn Mcleod and Barbara Martin
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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 Dukes of Hazard star Tom Wopat, legendary Motown songwriter Marilyn McCleod and acclaimed singer-songwriter Barbara Martin. Television and Broadway veteran Tom Wopat has released his brand-new jazz album, Consider It Swung. The record is a swingin' collection of standards featuring Wopat and some of the best jazz musicians New York City has to offer, including Tedd ...
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Jimmy McHugh's Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Jimmy McHugh's songs entered the jazz pantheon through recordings by Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and many, many more. Today McHugh's songs remain among the most popular jazz standards recorded by both mainstream and traditional jazz artists. In this week's Riverwalk Jazz broadcast devoted to McHugh's songs, tap master Savion Glover pays tribute to Bojangles' legendary performance of “Doin' the New Lowdown," and singers Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Rebecca Kilgore interpret McHugh classics “I've Got My Fingers Crossed," ...
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Soundoff.FM - Fun Way to Discover and Promote Music
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HypeBot
SoundOff.fm launched to the general public late last month as a music discovery game and indie artist promotion site that allows musicians to upload song samples for participants to choose in battles between two songs. It's a very simple concept that they seem to be executing well yet they're also gradually adding features that fit with what they've developed to date. SoundOff.fm does an excellent job of explaining what they do and how it works: The Basic Concept Artists upload ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 10, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Giacomo Gates Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant) 209 201 +8 0 58 1 9 2 3 5 Warren Wolf Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue) 195 185 +10 0 50 1 9 3 2 2 Cedar Walton The Bouncer (HighNote) 189 198 -9 0 50 2 9 4 8 3 Larry Vuckovich Somethin' Special (Tetrachord) 188 161 +27 0 53 3 8 5 17 17 Kyle Eastwood ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer - The Power of Positive Swinging
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's Audio Archive post, we once again visit the extensive catalog of trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry for The Power of Positive Swinging, a 1965 album that teams him with Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer. Originally was issued on the Mainstream label and preserved online via the music sharing blog Musica des Delas Antipodas, the session features Terry on trumpet and flugelhorn and Brookmeyer on valve trombone, backed by a rhythm section of Roger Kellaway (piano), ...
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Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa and more on Reeds & Deeds II
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Lydia Liebman
Reeds and Deeds II presents its current line up! The jazz program is thrilled to announce two interviews and two in studio performance/interviews for the next coming weeks. The schedule is as follows: October 23: Kurt Elling Interviewed October 30: Rudresh Mahanthappa Interviewed November 6: The Jeremy De Jesus Quintet Interviewed with in studio performance November 13: The 427 Factory with Willy Rodriguez interviewed with in studio performance Reeds & Deeds II broadcasts every Sunday from 6 to 8 on ...
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