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Listening Tip: Kirchner's 100th
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Bill Kirchner is a saxophonist, arranger, composer, teacher, editor and historian who finds time to also be a broadcaster. Since 2002, he has been a host on Jazz From The Archives, a highlight in the schedule of WBGO-FM, the Newark, New Jersey, jazz station. He has devoted 99 programs to the work of other leading musicians. There is a list of those shows on Kirchner's website. This Sunday, for his 100th broadcast, he will feature his own music. From his ...
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Rockwired.com Announces New Weekly Online Radio Show "Jazzed & Blue"
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Chris M. Slawecki
With the daily online radio show Rockwired Radio Profiles continuing to shine a light on indie music from throughout the U.S. and abroad and the weekly show Aboriginal Sounds' coverage of contemporary Native music, Rockwired.com has been keeping busy. Now, the online radio station will be launching a new weekly online radio series entitled Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz. This new show is tentatively scheduled for June/July 2011, every Sunday at exclusively at Rockwired.com.
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Shelly Berg plays James P. Johnson This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Shelly Berg, pianist and Dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, plays the music of James P. Johnson with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, Sirius/XM and can be streamed from the Riverwalk Jazz website here. Pianist James P. Johnson is a little-known genius of American music. His style of piano playing became known as 'stride' and was a bridge ...
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Brilliant Sketches: Marcus Miller
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The brilliant Miles Davis recording Sketches of Spain turned 50 in 2009 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, who reissued a special collector's edition CD that same year, I produced a podcast series celebrating this masterpiece. For this series it was important to find artists who could speak with authority, not only about the impact of Miles' playing at that time but also about Gil Evans, the recording itself and the album's huge influence on the music. Our cast of ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 9, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 2 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 196 187 +9 0 55 1 8 2 3 1 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 182 180 +2 0 50 1 9 3 5 4 Terell Stafford This Side Of Strayhorn (Max Jazz) 166 171 -5 1 48 3 4 4 6 4 Brian Lynch Unsung Heroes (Hollistic) 161 159 +2 0 46 3 10 5 15 19 'Papa' John DeFrancesco A Philadelphia Story ...
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Rockwired.Com Announces New Weekly Online Radio Show Entitled "Jazzed And Blue: Profiles In Blues And Jazz" In The Summer Of 2011
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Rockwired Media LLC
(May 11, 2011) With the daily online radio show Rockwired Radio Profiles continuing to shine a light on indie music from throughout the U.S. and abroad and the weekly show Aboriginal Sounds' coverage of contemporary Native music, Rockwired.com has been keeping busy. Now, the online radio station will be launching a new weekly online radio series entitled Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz. This new show is tentatively scheduled for June/July 2011, every Sunday at exclusively at Rockwired.com. ...
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