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Brilliant Sketches: Herb Alpert
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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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Maxine Sullivan's 100th Birthday Celebration on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Arbors recording artists Rebecca Kilgore and John Sheridan join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a program devoted to Maxine Sullivan's 100th birthday called Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm. Over a five decade career, Maxine Sullivan brought a light, subtle approach to jazz vocals that paved the way for the “Cool School" of singing. Sullivan first came to New York in the summer of 1937. She said, “I auditioned every gin mill from 155th Street to ...
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Mysticism to Metal: "Afropop" Goes to Egypt
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Chris M. Slawecki
Send Afropop Worldwide to Egypt! (It's Tax-deductible too!) More than a year before Egypt's inspiring revolution, Afropop began planning a research trip to the country as part of our ground breaking Hip Deep program series. The plan is to travel to Egypt in the summer of 2011 to gather material for four radio programs, and a variety of web offerings, including videos, blog posts and social media outreach. The programs are: Cairo, Part 1: A Musical Portrait: A history of ...
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That Motown Swing
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The great Motown sound not only influenced music in the pop arena but it also left its indelible mark on jazz. A few years ago I produced a podcast series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Motown and I included a number of jazz stars to round out the story. One of the first guys to participate was saxophonist David Sanborn, who not only loved the Motown sax star Junior Walker and Marvin Gaye, but many may not know, he also ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 2, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 15 — Gretchen Parlato The Lost And Found (Obliqsound) 262 122 +140 1 59 1 2 2 2 4 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 187 202 -15 0 52 2 7 3 1 3 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 180 205 -25 1 54 1 8 4 3 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 172 185 -13 0 53 1 12 5 4 13 Terell Stafford This Side Of ...
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