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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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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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