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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 4, 2011
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 239 244 -5 1 59 1 8 2 2 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 231 218 +13 0 55 2 9 3 3 22 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 211 193 +18 0 54 3 3 4 8 12 Yellowjackets Timeline (Mack Avenue) 188 160 +28 0 57 4 5 5 5 6 ...
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Pandora Caught Transmitting Personal Info and User Location to Advertisers
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HypeBot
(Updated) After Pandora revealed in an IPO filing that it was subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating smartphone apps, the team at Veracode decided to do a little digging and found that both Pandora's Android and iPhone apps transmitted information about a user's age, gender, location, and unique identifiers for the phone to advertisers. Pandora gathers age and gender when a user register. As the number of apps grow, so will the information gathered. “In isolation some of this data ...
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Riverwalk Jazz presents William Warfield This Week
Source:
Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the late theater legend William Warfield joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in an encore presentation, combining Mr. Warfield's masterful readings of Langston Hughes' poems with musical selections by Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson. The hour-long radio show is distrubuted across the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on Sirius/XM sattelite radio, as well as streamed on-demand via the Riverwalk Jazz website. Langston Hughes has been called the “Poet Laureate of black America," ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 28, 2011
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 244 289 -45 0 61 1 7 2 2 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 218 228 -10 0 53 2 8 3 22 — Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 193 101 +92 3 55 3 2 4 3 6 Brian Lynch Unsung Heroes (Hollistic) 180 188 -8 0 51 3 4 5 6 ...
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The John Coltrane You Haven't Heard airs on Reeds & Deeds II
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Lydia Liebman
This Sunday's broadcast of radio program Reeds & Deeds II on WECB will feature exclusive, rare, and in some cases, never before heard tunes from jazz legend John Coltrane. Live performances from Penn State 1963, Paris 1961, outtakes from Coltrane's 1965 “Sun Ship" sessions with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones, as well as the only live recording of the complete “A Love Supreme" are among the featured tracks. Lydia Liebman will be hosting the broadcast from 6 to ...
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