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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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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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