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Benny Goodman, The Great Innovator—This week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
May 26, 2011

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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The Jazz Session #272: Connection Works

Source: AAJ Staff
May 26, 2011

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Jazz Backstage: Roy Haynes and Chick Corea

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
May 25, 2011

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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Can There Be Radio, Without Advertising?

Source: Digital Music News
May 25, 2011

After all, TV did it. Not only that, cable often runs ads and collects subscription fees at the same time, though of course, that party is dying down. But what about radio? Can this format break these advertising chains? Of course there's Sirius, which has over 20 million subscribersand ranks among the largest entertainment subscription services in the world. But the financials always seem so shaky at Sirius, especially with desperate mergers, mega-losses, and near-bankruptcies dotting the history. And, when ...

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Timba Jazz On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 5/27/11

Source: Ed Bell
May 25, 2011

Please tune in for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, May 27, 2011 With TIEMPO LIBRE Performing tunes from their new CD, My Secret Radio (Sony Masterworks), Tiempo Libre returns to SFAB after three years of touring, recording and performing with such artists as Albita, Cachao, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera, Joshua Bell and Sir James Galway. Their new CD is a celebration of the music they heard ...

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The Jazz Session #271: Cecil McBee

Source: AAJ Staff
May 24, 2011

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 16, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
May 24, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 213 196 +17 0 53 1 9 2 2 3 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 188 182 +6 0 54 1 10 3 3 5 Terell Stafford This Side Of Strayhorn (Max Jazz) 184 166 +18 0 55 3 5 4 8 9 Lynne Arriale Convergence (Motema) 167 129 +38 0 43 4 9 5 12 23 Karrin Allyson Round Midnight (Concord Jazz) 153 122 ...

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Jammin' Jazz: Jazz for the New Generation Podcast

Source: Michael Ricci
May 22, 2011

"Jammin' Jazz: Jazz For The New Generation" hosted by former XM Satellite Radio and MOJA Radio DJ Michelle Sammartino is a long running hour long program featuring all that is cool and groovy, and happenin' in Modern Jazz right this minute. I feature the marriage of Jazz and Funk, Jazz and Rock, Jazz and Fusion, Jazz and Hip Hop... from New Orleans to New York to CA to Europe to Japan and more... If it is happenin' in the world ...

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