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The Jazz Session #307: Marco Cappelli

Source: AAJ Staff
September 8, 2011

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

Source: Ed Bell
September 7, 2011

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

Source: HypeBot
September 7, 2011

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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JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 29, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
September 6, 2011

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

Source: Don Mopsick
September 1, 2011

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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The Jazz Session #306: Gilad Hekselman

Source: AAJ Staff
September 1, 2011

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 22, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
August 30, 2011

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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