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AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches Five Eclectic Channels
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Lucas Gillan
If you haven't been to AccuJazz.com in a while, you'll notice a handful of recently-added channels now being offered for your listening pleasure. In the past month or so, we've added five channels to the already possibly overwhelming array of AccuJazz listening options. Read about each of them below, and then get to listening! AACM The AACM is the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and if you don't know what that is, there's an award-winning, 690-page book that ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Lester Bowie Quintet Live in Padua, 1978
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Audio Archive entry comes via the blog Inconstant Sol, and features a commercially unissued live recording of trumpeter and St. Louis native Lester Bowie (pictured) performing with his quintet on April 4, 1978 at Teatro Tenda in Padua, Italy. The set is described by the blogger as “One of the best groups led by Lester playing some Gospels, some Spirituals, some Rhythm & Blues and some Free-Jazz: from the Ancient to the Future!" There are three tracks, labeled ...
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Rockwired.com’s Latest Edition of Jazzed and Blues
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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 legendary Motown songwriter Marilyn Mcleod. In this opening segment, Mcleod discusses her debut CD “I Believe in Me," her life in music and her tenure at the songwriting stable of Hitsville U.S.A. where she penned songs for the likes of Diana Ross, Junior Walker and Millie Jackson. The second half of this edition ...
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Louis Armstrong's Memories and Reflections This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
As befits a legend, Louis Armstrong had two birthdays. He always said with a smile that he was born on the 4th of July, 1900. His baptismal birth certificate gave another, less romantic date—August 4, 1901. Honoring “the man who taught the world to swing," this week we hear from people who knew and worked with him, listen to historic recordings and performances by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Among those we hear are record producer George Avakian, Metropolitan Opera ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 27, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 43 — Sachal Vasandani Hi-Fly (Mack Avenue) 249 61 +188 5 57 1 2 2 3 2 Benny Green Source (JLP) 194 191 +3 0 52 1 7 3 1 3 Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White\ Forever (Concord) 192 192 0 0 58 1 5 3 30 — Gerald Wilson Orchestra Legacy (Mack Avenue) 192 78 +114 5 44 3 2 5 — — James Torme Love For Sale (eOne) ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Oliver Nelson - Black, Brown and Beautiful
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's StLJN Audio Archive post comes once again via the Flying Dutchman blog, which has preserved most of the output of that once vibrant, now defunct jazz imprint of the 1960s and 1970s. Saxophonist, arranger/composer and St. Louis native Oliver Nelson made a number of albums for Flying Dutchman, and today we feature Black, Brown and Beautiful, an ambitious effort composed and arranged entirely by Nelson and recorded in October, 1969 in Los Angeles. Here's what the website Dustygroove ...
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