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STLJN Audio Archive: Clark After Dark: The Ballad Artistry of Clark Terry
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this StLJN Audio Archive post, we feature Clark After Dark: The Ballad Artistry of Clark Terry, a 1970s session featuring the legendary trumpeter and St. Louis native Clark Terry. It's available online as a free download thanks to the blog Magic Purple Sunshine, which collects and presents out-of-print recordings originally issued on the old MPS label from Germany. Clark After Dark was recorded in London in September, 1977 and, as the title suggests, features Terry playing flugelhorn over orchestral ...
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Rockwired.com's Latest Edition of Jazzed and Blue Presents: Singer and Russian Television Personality Oleg Frish and Music from Diane Schuur, Elvin Bishop and Hulon
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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 celebrated Russian television personality Oleg Frish. In this opening segment, Frish discusses his forthcoming release Bring Me Sunshine, working with The Patrick Williams Big Band and plans for future recordings. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music from such jazz and blues artists asDee Dee Bridgewater, Diane ...
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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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