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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 30, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 37 43 Ambrose Akinmusire When The Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note) 207 75 +132 1 46 1 8 2 5 3 Terell Stafford This Side Of Strayhorn (Max Jazz) 173 191 -18 0 49 2 7 3 1 8 Benny Green Source (JLP) 172 236 -64 1 49 1 3 4 4 1 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 171 199 -28 0 45 1 11 5 2 2 Eric Reed The ...
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Ted Daniel Talks King Oliver at WKCR
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Chris Rich
Tune in for Ted Daniel's musical tribute to the renowned jazz cornetist on Columbia University's jazz radio program on the Columbia University jazz radio program with Ben Young, Monday evening June 6th from 6:00-9:00pm on WKCR 89.9 FM. During the program, Daniel will discuss the life and times of Joseph “King" Oliver his involvement in King Oliver's music, and IBMC's performance of King Oliver material in concert on June 7th. The following evening (June 7th, 2011) Ted Daniel's International Brass ...
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Pandora IPO to Value Company at $1 Billion
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HypeBot
(UPDATED) Pandora has filed an updated S-1 that shows they will be pricing stock at $7 to $9 per share during its IPO on the The New York Stock Exchange. That puts the total valuation of Pandora over $1 billion. According to the filing, Pandora hopes to raise about $140 million in the offering. The latest users stats from Pandora are impressive, but along with them comes a black cloud: The Q1 good news:
Revenue: $51 million, up 131% Registered ...
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Pre-bop Jazz Trombone This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates the great voices of pre-WWII jazz trombone. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with leading “old-school" players active today. Though all of them claim Jack Teagarden as a major influence and model for their playing, some have taken a special interest in the playing of other lesser-known but important historical figures of the trombone world. The show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International and Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed ...
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Celebrating Mingus Ah Um with Kyle Eastwood
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
As with the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out and Miles' Sketches of Spain, Legacy Recordings put me on assignment to produce a couple of podcast episodes celebrating Charles Mingus' masterpiece Mingus Ah Um in 2009. And like the previous two classic albums from 1959, these episodes got lost in the shuffle at Legacy and were never released. Finally, with the help of a few colleagues over there, we proudly present our celebration of Mingus Ah Um beginning with ...
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