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Rockwired.com's Latest Edition of Jazzed and Blue Features the Psychedelic Jazz Sound of Teddy Presberg and music from Curtis Stigers, Luba Mason, The Dangling Success and Barbara Martin
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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 the psychedelic sound of jazz guitarist Teddy Presberg, In this opening segment, Presberg discusses the evolution of his sound from his debut CD “Blueprint of Soul" to his follow-up release “Outcries from a Sea of Red” and the recent release three volumes of remixes of his latter album. The second half of this ...
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The Gershwin Legacy This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, frequent Riverwalk Jazz guest artist Dick Hyman—a brilliant pianist, composer and arranger of film scores, ballet and Broadway shows—joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate George Gershwin's works. 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. The music of George Gershwin has “Made in the USA" stamped all over it. Coming of age in the 1920s and '30s in ...
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AOL Partners with Slacker for Online Music Service
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HypeBot
Add another competitor to the online music wars, as AOL shifts much of its offering from CBS to Slacker. The new AOL Radio, which relaunches in late summer, will offer new personalization features and premium subscriptions. Based on existing Slacker pricing, the new service will deliver three tiers: free AOL Radio with personalization and customization by Slacker, ad-free and feature-rich Slacker Radio Plus for $3.99 per month and on-demand access with Slacker Premium Radio for $9.99. Upon the launch of ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 20, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 12 Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White\ Forever (Concord) 192 189 +3 1 59 1 4 1 6 4 Eric Alexander Don't Follow The Crowd (HighNote) 192 160 +32 0 50 1 5 3 2 3 Benny Green Source (JLP) 191 192 -1 0 57 1 6 4 16 9 Gretchen Parlato The Lost And Found (Obliqsound) 175 119 +56 0 41 1 9 5 1 2 Terell Stafford This ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Facets: The Legend of Leon Thomas
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, we introduce a new recurring feature, the StLJN Audio Archive, that will appear occasionally on Sundays. As the name implies, the idea is spotlight out-of-print recordings by St. Louis artists that are available as free downloads somewhere on the Internet. StLJN has featured this sort of thing before at irregular intervals, but after doing some concerted searching for available resources, there seem to be enough out there to warrant a semi-regular feature. A few caveats: We will link only ...
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