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Special Riverwalk Jazz Christmas Show Available on PRX
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Don Mopsick
This holiday season, Riverwalk Jazz offers to listeners and longtime fans a special hour-long Christmas broadcast, “Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule," fro streaming through the PRX website. This show will not be broadcast over the airwaves or on Sirius/XM satellite radio. Here's the link to this special Christmas show. The special holiday show features musical guests singer Carol Woods ("Santa Baby"), soprano saxophonist Bob Wilber, piano legend Dick Hyman, singer Banu Gibson and tap dancing sensation Savion Glover. The ...
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Inside Spotify Radio vs. Pandora - The Echo Nest Makes the Difference
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HypeBot
Every time a new “Pandora killer" launches, my first question is what technology is driving song selection. The answer matters because that's who/what is deciding what we listen to. Pandora has its own “Music Genome Project" which is really just a bunch of humans grading music. The result is that some indie bands have been left off Pandora playlists. Doesn't quite seem fair, does it? The Echo Nest offers a data driven alternative and Spotify Radio, which rolls out today, ...
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William Warfield in Show Boat This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, William Warfield is heard in an encore presentation joining The Jim Cullum Jazz Band as narrator in a 1995 production of Show Boat, combining the Band's original jazz transcription of the Kern score with a script based on the Ferber novel. 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. “The scene is a glorious summer day on the ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 5, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 214 217 -3 0 54 1 10 2 2 3 George Benson Guitar Man (Concord Jazz) 176 179 -3 0 41 2 10 3 33 8 Takuya Kuroda Edge (Self-Released) 171 74 +97 2 37 3 7 4 10 14 Rene Marie Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motema) 164 127 +37 1 46 4 8 5 13 13 Houston Person ...
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The Luis Russell Story This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz tells the story of Luis Russell, the renowned pianist, arranger, songwriter and bandleader who backed Louis Armstrong on his rise to stardom and helped pioneer the modern jazz rhythm section. To help pay tribute to his father's legacy, Russell's daughter—the magnificent vocalist Catherine Russell— joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with Dick Hyman on piano. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: November 28, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 2 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 217 202 +15 0 52 1 9 2 3 4 George Benson Guitar Man (Concord Jazz) 179 193 -14 0 37 2 9 3 28 28 Tony Bennett Duets II (RPM / Columbia) 163 99 +64 1 24 1 10 4 7 12 Joey DeFrancesco 40 (HighNote) 150 149 +1 0 42 4 6 5 6 3 Roy Haynes Roy-Alty ...
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A Night at Nick's This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
We invited Riverwalk Jazz listeners to share their memories of Nick's in the Village, and the phones began to ring off the hook. We heard from one man who had gotten engaged at the bar, one who was an Olympic athlete, and several who were musicians who had played at Nick's. These listeners, and others, contribute their stories to this week's Riverwalk Jazz broadcast as The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates Nick Rongetti's club with clarinetist Kenny Davern, pianist Dick ...
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Pandora Competitor Senzari Launches in U.S. and Brazil, Adds Facebook Friend Recommendations
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HypeBot
Senzari, a new Pandora competitor, launched in the U.S. and Brazil today with a licensed catalog of 10 million songs from all four major labels and many independents. Unlike Pandora, who has not followed the music service rush to Facebook, Senzari combines the musical choices of the user and their friends, as expressed on Facebook, to their individual choices and the sites algorithm. “Pandora's biggest complaint, from people that love the service, is that you maybe hear the same songs ...
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