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WICN to be the Home of the New England Jazz Hall of Fame in Worcester, Massachusetts
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
WICN 90.5 FM Public Radio is going to be home to the New England Jazz Hall of Fame, a tribute to the greats who have made the region's jazz scene so vibrant. The Hall of Fame is a special project of the New England Jazz Alliance (NEJA), which initiated it as a traveling exhibit in 2001. A decade later, the scope and popularity of the Jazz Hall of Fame has required organizers to find a permanent home. That will be ...
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Jazz Radio Returns a Second Time! Lydia Liebman's Reeds & Deeds II is back!
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Lydia Liebman
'Reeds & Deeds II' is returning for a second full year on WECB! The jazz radio program that made a big splash on the internet airwaves is back with more exclusive content, brand new tracks and exciting interviews. Lydia Liebman's radio program ran from September to May last year on Emerson College's internet radio station, WECB. Interviews were held with Dave Liebman, George Garzone, Mermans Kenkosenki, Jason Yeager, Ilona Kudina, Gregory Porter, Jay Phelps, and Somi as well as a ...
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Riverwalk Jazz Archive Finds Permanent Home at Stanford University Libraries
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Don Mopsick
Stanford's Celebrated Archive of Recorded Sound to provide continuous stream of Jim Cullum's radio programs beginning 2013. “Fans will be able to view an extensive collection of Riverwalk Jazz ephemera like, posters, photos, behind the scenes broadcast elements and artist correspondence at the Library and listen to the entire collection online beginning 2013 and for generations to come," says Margaret Moos Pick, the show's Executive Producer. Riverwalk Jazz, now in its 22nd season, is distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) ...
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Stanford Libraries acquire Jim Cullum's "Riverwalk Jazz" archives
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Michael Ricci
BY CYNTHIA HAVEN Now and then, a great jazz performer or band makes a splash on the American musical landscape, keeping the nation's indigenous musical genre alive and popping. But a few maestros have gone light years beyond that, building over decades to create jazz empires. Jim Cullum, musician and radio host, is one of them. His program, Riverwalk Jazz, now in its 22nd season, is distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) and heard on stations in more than 200 ...
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New Orleans Clarinet with Evan Christopher This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz spotlights the rich legacy of jazz clarinet players from the Crescent City. The sound of New Orleans jazz is unique. The distinctive New Orleans clarinet sound blends with cornet, trombone, drums, bass, banjo and piano in polyphonic New Orleans-style jazz bands, just as filé spice binds ingredients together in a gumbo stew. Evan Christopher, a contemporary New Orleans-based player dedicated to this unique clarinet tradition joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on stage at The Landing. ...
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The Jazz Session #307: Marco Cappelli
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AAJ Staff
Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli's new DVD is In The Shadow Of No Towers, a multimedia project exploring September 11 and its aftermath. The project features an animated graphic novel by artist Art Spiegelman (Maus) and narration by actor John Turturro. In this interview, Cappelli talks about how this remarkable project came to exist; the interesting history of the band that made the music for the DVD; and how he came to play his current modified guitar. Also featured in this ...
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Fiery, New Latin Jazz Band Debuts On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, September 9th, 2011 1:00pm Eastern Featuring WORLD MUSIC 5 Formed in 2002, Negroni's Trio, led by pianist Jose with his son, Nomar, on drums (who studied at the Berklee College of Music) has burned a path to the top of the national Latin Jazz scene. Their second release, “Piano/Drums/Bass," was nominated for a Latin Jazz Grammy in 2005. ...
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The Echo Nest to Help Power Clear Channel's Pandora-Like iHeartRadio
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HypeBot
In what may be the music intelligence platform biggest deal to date, The Echo Nest today announced an agreement with Clear Channel Radio to help power their iHeartRadio digital music platform. Some in the industry believe that iHeartRadio—which allows listeners to build custom radio stations—is the biggest threat yet to slow or even reverse Pandora's meteoric rise. The Echo Nest platform maintains 5 billion data points on 30 million songs, including understanding of artist connections, song similarity, mood, style and ...
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