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The Traneumentary: Anton Fig
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
When I first went to see McCoy Tyner at the Blue Note in the summer of 2006, I ran into Paul Schaffer and Anton Fig who were also attending the show. Both Anton and Paul respectfully greeted McCoy backstage and talked with him right before I met and recorded the McCoy “special greeting" Traneumentary episode. A month later I met with Anton to record two Traneumentary pieces. Since Anton is a great drummer, I thought his perspective on Elvin Jones ...
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The Jazz Session Needs Your Help to Survive
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Michael Ricci
BROOKLYN, NY—The Jazz Session, the online interview show, needs members to continue. The show, which was started four years ago by host and producer Jason Crane, has been downloaded more than 1.1 million times and features interviews with established masters and up-and-coming artists. Listeners can become members at thejazzsession.com/join. “This show has been a labor of love for the past four years," said Crane. “I still love it, but now I need some financial support for the labor part." Crane ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 23, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 8 — Benny Green Source (JLP) 236 149 +87 5 68 1 2 2 2 2 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 202 188 +14 0 56 1 11 3 — — Rumer Seasons of My Soul (Atlantic) 200 — +200 10 35 3 1 4 1 1 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 199 213 -14 0 52 1 10 5 3 3 Terell Stafford This Side Of Strayhorn (Max Jazz) ...
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Benny Goodman, The Great Innovator—This week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
To celebrate Benny Goodman's innovative style, Riverwalk Jazz has assembled performances and stories from our stable of jazz greats drawn into his orbit—Lionel Hampton, Doc Cheatham, Helen Ward—and our own Ron Hockett and Jim Cullum. In 22 years of Riverwalk Jazz radio broadcasts, we've welcomed several artists closely associated with Goodman—or deeply influenced by his music—to The Landing in San Antonio. The weekly hour-long public radio show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, Sirius/XM satellite, and can ...
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Jazz Backstage: Roy Haynes and Chick Corea
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
Legendary drummer Roy Haynes continues to blow people away when they hear his performance on the 1968 classic trio album by Chick Corea, Now He Sing Now He Sobs. Even after 40 years, Roy's ride cymbal sound, as perfectly captured on the tracks “Steps/What Was" and “The Matrix," is still the stuff worthy of lengthly discussions among drummers of all sorts, jazz and beyond. Who knew a ride cymbal could have such a life, legend and following? But Roy's does. ...
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