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Jill Salkin featured on JazzOn2.org
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Jill Salkin
Selections from Jill Salkin's CD, The Very Thought of You were featured this week on JazzOn2.org, by host Joe Cataldo. Four songs from Jill's latest release were played, including one original composition. As Jill continues to be heard on stations around the country, she has garnered some fine reviews: “How sweet it is for a radio jazz DJ to now and then receive music from a talented vocalist, he or she has not heard before. Jill is by no means ...
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Louis Armstrong's Official Birthday on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway's Vernel Bagneris reads excerpts from Hentoff and Shapiro's Hear Me Talkin' To Ya and joins Jim Cullum and the Band on Louis Armstrong classics like “I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and “Swing That Music" and a lesser-known number, “Too Busy." The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performs seldom-heard classics from the Armstrong repertoire, among them “Jazz Lips," “Tears" and “Song of the Islands." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio ...
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Believe It: Sirius Just Passed 21 Million Subscribers...
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Digital Music News
Imagine: getting fans to pay a modest amount every month, in exchange for an incredibly huge amount of music. It's the salivating dream of everyone from Spotify to Pandora, though Sirius XM Radio is actually pulling it off—and beating everyoneelse by a longshot. But is Sirius a long-term survivor? For now, there's something to clap about. At a top level, recent-quarter profits (yes, profits) moved to a sizable $173.3 million, while Sirius added 452,147 net subscribers in just three months. ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 25, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Gerald Wilson Orchestra Legacy (Mack Avenue) 177 235 -58 0 50 1 6 2 1 3 Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White Forever (Concord) 176 261 -85 0 53 1 9 3 5 5 The New Gary Burton Quartet Common Ground (Mack Avenue) 172 169 +3 0 49 3 9 4 7 14 Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Christian Scott Ninety Miles (Concord Picante) 170 150 +20 0 51 4 7 ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Miles Davis' Lost Quintet
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's StLJN Audio Archive material comes once again courtesy of the music sharing blog Nothing Is v2.0, and features Miles Davis' so-called “Lost Quintet" recorded live in 1969 in Paris. Although this lineup of Davis' band never recorded as a five-piece—hence, the notion of their music being “lost"—it's basically the nucleus of the group that recorded Bitches Brew, with Davis on trumpet, Dave Holland on bass, Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano sax, Jack DeJohnette on drums and Chick ...
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Rockwired.com’s Latest Edition Of Jazzed and Blue Presents: Broadway and Television Veteran Tom Wopat And Music From Curtis Stigers, Jane Badler And Marilyn Mcleod
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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 music and an exclusive interview with Broadway and television veteran Tom Wopat (The Dukes of Hazard). In this opening segment, Wopat discusses his forthcoming release 'Consider it Swung,' working with producer and bassist David Finck and plans for future recordings. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music from such jazz and blues artists ...
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