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Pre-bop Jazz Trombone This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
June 2, 2011

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

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
June 2, 2011

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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The Jazz Session #275: Jooklo Duo

Source: AAJ Staff
June 2, 2011

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The Traneumentary: Anton Fig

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
June 1, 2011

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

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2011

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

Source: Michael Ricci
May 31, 2011

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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