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STLJN Audio Archive: Hamiet Bluiett - S.O.S.
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Audio Archive entry features S.O.S., a 1977 session from the great baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett. Recorded live at an NYC performance space called Axis, S.O.S teams Bluiett with a stellar rhythm section comprised of Don Pullen on piano, Fred Hopkins on bass and Famoudou Don Moye on percussion. When originally issued as an LP on the India Navigation label, it featured a single track, “Sobre Una Nube (On a Cloud)" split between the two sides. That material was ...
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Rockwired.com's Jazzed and Blue Presents Multi-Instrumental Jazz Artist Kenny Love and His New Release'Case Sensitive'and Music from Red Hot and Red, Mozik, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Curtis Stigers
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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 an exclusive interview with multi-instrumental jazz artist Kenny Love regarding his debut solo release Case Sensitive. In the opening segment, Love discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of his new CD, his return to music making after years of success as a music promoter and his ideas for a follow up release. The second half of this edition of ...
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John Coltrane Radio on SiriusXM, hosted by Carlos Santana
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SiriusXM Eric
In celebration of the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer's 85th birthday, John Coltrane Radio airs on Real Jazz from Thursday, September 22, the day before Coltrane's 85th birthday, at 9 am ET through Sunday, September 25 on channel 67. John Coltrane Radio will be hosted by Grammy Award-winning musician and Coltrane aficionado, Carlos Santana, as well as his wife, musician Cindy Blackman-Santana, Christian McBride and Coltrane's son, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, featuring the music spanning the jazz legend's career, including his ...
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Clarinetist Dave Bennett Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, youthful clarinetist Dave Bennett joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to sample music from the long career of his main inspiration, Benny Goodman. With clarinetist Ron Hockett, Dave explores classics of “chamber jazz" that Goodman recorded with his small groups—"Avalon," “Runnin' Wild," “I Got Rhythm," and “Tiger Rag." Dave is one of the top artists in a new generation of musicians passionate about early jazz forms. The program is distributed in the US by Public ...
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Pandora Ends Free Listening Limits, Launches New HTML5 Player
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HypeBot
Perhaps as a reaction to increased “free music" competition from iHeartRadio to Spotify or perhaps to offer advertisers the biggest possible audience, Pandora has eliminated it's 40 hour free listening cap. The move came on the same day that the music service rolled out a click new HTML5 player with more social sharing to all users. New Pandora features include:
Faster Load Time—HTML5 enables the site to load almost instantaneously and allows for fluid navigation across the service.
Simplified Station ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 12, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 5 2 Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin) 233 168 +65 0 63 1 6 2 1 1 Giacomo Gates Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant) 215 218 -3 0 60 1 5 3 3 5 Cedar Walton The Bouncer (HighNote) 186 178 +8 0 55 3 5 4 6 4 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Live (Motema) 179 159 +20 0 56 1 10 5 21 11 Rick ...
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