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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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Joe Lovano Us Five - Taking Bird to New Heights
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Groove Notes
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO Live sessions in the KPLU Performance Studio are always fun. However, when saxophonist, Joe Lovano, stopped by with his group, Us Five, it was more than fun. It was also an honor. New York Times jazz critic, Ben Ratliff, put it very succinctly: “It's fair to say that (Lovano's) one of the greatest musicians in jazz history." Usually in our studio sessions we begin with a song from the visiting artist, chat for a moment, hear ...
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Brilliant Sketches: Nicholas Payton
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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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Alice Day sings on WLRN's Evenin' Jazz on May 6
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The Real Tracy Fields
Miami's First Lady of Jazz, Alice Day, will perform on WLRN's nightly jazz program on Friday, May 6. Showtime is 9:32 p.m. eastern. Ms. Day, a native Miamian, spends most of each year abroad, bringing America's Music to people in Europe and Asia. But she always comes home for Mother's Day, and this year she'll spend some of her precious time stateside with the listeners of Evenin' Jazz. “This is a homecoming in more ways than one," said The Real ...
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