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STLJN Audio Archive: Pow! Jeanne Trevor Sings!!
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's Audio Archive post, we reach back to 1965 for the first full-length recording by one of St. Louis' longtime favorites, singer Jeanne Trevor. Pow! Jeanne Trevor Sings!! originally was released on the Mainstream label and is revived here courtesy of the music-sharing blog Soundological Investimigations. Drawing inspiration from the classic tradition of female jazz vocalists, most notably Ella Fizgerald, Trevor has been a staple on St. Louis stages for close to 50 years, and continues to perform ...
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Attention Sirius: Netflix Just Lost 600,000 Subscribers...
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Digital Music News
Is Sirius playing an incredibly dangerous game here? The question is being posed against a horrific situation for Netflix, which is now losing approximately 600,000 subscribers since June on the backs of an unpopular rate hike (among other modifications). Sirius XM Radio is preparing its own increases on January 1st. And, that's just the month-end forecast of the Netflix damage, following the September 1st hike (a more exact, mid-monthfigure is 594,000). In fact, Netflix is now projecting a subscriber total ...
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Butterbeans & Susie Vaudeville Cabaret This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, on Riverwalk Jazz, the comic interplay between Butterbeans and Susie is brought to life by Broadway's Vernel Bagneris and acclaimed jazz vocalist Topsy Chapman. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band provides a musical backdrop steeped in jazz and blues of black vaudeville of the '20s. 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. They were a couple of teenage chorus dancers ...
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Will They Notice? Sirius Now Raising Its Monthly Rates....
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Digital Music News
Great service and all, but is Sirius getting a little overconfident here? The company is now raising the monthly subscription charge on its basic package to $14.49, from $12.95 currently, according to details shared earlier today. That's the first basic hike since 2002, and changes go into effect January 1st, 2012. The move comes amidst some life-affirming developments. This is no longer a company battling the throes of bankruptcy, fretting over Nasdaq delisting threats, and combating other mortal enemies. Sirius ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 5, 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) 218 220 -2 0 57 1 4 2 14 5 Warren Wolf Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue) 187 133 +54 0 53 2 4 3 5 9 Cedar Walton The Bouncer (HighNote) 178 174 +4 0 56 3 4 4 8 2 Jay Ashby & Steve Davis Mistaken Identity (MCG Jazz) 173 157 +16 0 43 2 8 5 ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Human Arts Ensemble - Whisper of Dharma
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Audio Archive post comes to us once again from the fine avant-jazz music sharing blog Nothing Is v2.0, and features Whisper of Dharma, a rare album by the Human Arts Ensemble that originally was issued in 1972 on the Committee for Universal Justice label (pictured, above left), and later reissued in 1977 on Arista Freedom (pictured, below left). The Human Arts Ensemble was an offshoot of St. Louis' Black Artists Group, created as a vehicle for musicians of ...
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