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JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 29, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 27 Giacomo Gates Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant) 220 240 -20 1 59 1 3 2 3 6 Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin) 197 187 +10 0 54 2 4 3 7 — Larry Vuckovich Somethin' Special (Tetrachord) 192 172 +20 1 54 3 2 4 4 1 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Live (Motema) 180 185 -5 0 56 1 8 5 9 ...
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This Week on Riverwalk Jazz: Fats Waller, Composer
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Don Mopsick
Riverwalk Jazz this week focuses on Fats Waller the composer. Fats wrote over 500 compositions in his short twenty-year career. His friend, the lyricist Andy Razaf said that “music poured out of Fats like water." 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. He called himself “the harmful little armful" but there was nothing little about Fats. His high-voltage personality would stun you, ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 22, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 27 — Giacomo Gates Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant) 240 84 +156 3 62 1 2 2 12 2 Jay Ashby & Steve Davis Mistaken Identity (MCG Jazz) 201 131 +70 0 57 2 6 3 6 25 Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin) 187 146 +41 1 61 3 3 4 1 1 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Live (Motema) 185 227 -42 0 52 ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Julius Hemphill - Dogon A.D.
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Audio Archive spotlights a recording that's generally acknowledged by jazz musicians, fans, critics and scholars as being of major significance, yet somehow has remained mostly out of print for more than 30 years. Saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill recorded Dogon A.D. in February, 1972 at Oliver Sain's Archway Studios on Natural Bridge Rd in north St. Louis. In addition to Hemphill on saxophone and flute, the musicians included Abdul K. Wadud on cello, Baikida Carroll on trumpet, and ...
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The Music of President Lester Young This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman paint a picture of Lester Young's life based on his own first-person accounts and those of musicians who knew him. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, with tenor saxophonists Brian Ogilvie and Ron Hockett, offer their homage to the “President of Tenor Sax." 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. Lester Young ...
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Pandora Reports Record Revenue and Listener Growth. Now 3.6% of U.S. Radio Listening
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HypeBot
(Updated) In it's first report to investors since becoming a publicly traded company, Pandora reported record quarterly revenue of $67 million growing 117% year over year. Pandora also had record growth in total listener hours and the accompanying increase in royalty costs. Listener hours reached 1.8 billion, up 125% year over year, resulting in a record share of total U.S. radio listening of 3.6%. Subscription and other non-ad revenue was $8.7 million, a 112% year over year increase. Mobile advertising ...
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