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Rockwired.com's Latest Edition of Jazzed and Blue Featured Tony Award-Winning Broadway Veteran Lea Salonga and Music from Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terence Blanchard and Tracy Nelson
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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 Tony Award-winning and Olivier Award-winning Broadway veteran Lea Salonga. In this opening segment, Salonga discusses her latest release The Journey So Far, and her place on Broadway's pantheon. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music from such jazz and blues artists as Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, ...
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Cole Porter's Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, singer Nina Ferro joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a concert of Cole Porter compositions live from the Filoli Estate in California. 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. You could say that Cole Porter was born with a platinum, jewel-encrusted spoon in his mouth. He enjoyed being “rich-rich." And this was before he made ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 11, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 5 3 Gerald Wilson Orchestra Legacy (Mack Avenue) 173 166 +7 3 47 1 4 2 2 2 Benny Green Source (JLP) 172 190 -18 0 50 1 9 3 1 3 Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White Forever (Concord) 163 210 -47 0 56 1 7 4 11 13 Eliane Elias Light My Fire (Concord Picante) 162 130 +32 0 48 4 7 5 3 6 The New Gary Burton ...
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New Riverwalk Jazz Website Offers More Programs, Better Streaming
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Don Mopsick
Dedication to our fans around the world is the driving force behind the launch of our new 'state of the art' website. Along with an updated look and feel, new features include: More Programs Available for Listening Choose from the current Riverwalk Jazz broadcast as well as any of the previous three (3) Recent Radio Broadcasts. No Windows Media? No Real Audio? No Problem We make it a priority to consistently deliver a great musical experience to you—both online and ...
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Life on the Mississippi This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
The grand era of the Mississippi Riverboats played a significant role in the development and spread of jazz from New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century. A young Louis Armstrong received valuable musical training working in dance bands aboard excursion steamboats run by John Streckfus, the man most responsible for developing the connection between dance music and riverboats. It is said that Jazz Age cornetist Bix Beiderbecke heard his first live jazz coming from steamboats docked alongside the ...
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