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The Traneumentary: Lenny Pickett
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
One of the most recognizable tenor saxophonists over the last 20 years, Lenny Pickett turned heads working in the original Tower of Power horn section. In 1985, he joined the Saturday Night Live band and since 1995, he has been the band's musical director. Over the years, Lenny has became a sought after session player recording with a variety of jazz artists as well as popular artists such as David Bowie, Elton John and the Talking Heads. He also serves ...
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Clarinet Great Kenny Davern This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with never-before- broadcast tracks featuring the great reedman Kenny Davern. The hour-long program is carried in the US on the Public Radio International network, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Kenny Davern was a kid when he first heard Pee Wee Russell play “Memphis Blues" and he knew then that he wanted a life in jazz. Over five decades, his world-class playing on clarinet ...
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IMRadio.com - Independent Musician Radio
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Daryl Boehlke
IMRadio—By Musicians, For Musicians Independent Musician Radio (IMRadio) will become a revenue-share internet radio station, revolutionizing the age old royalty based model of traditional radio stations. Instead of paying royalties on the original songs that it airs, IMRadio puts money directly into the musicians' pockets. At absolutely no cost, any artist in the world can upload their original songs for airplay, as well as creating their own online store for their merchandise. With IMRadio, every artist, singer, songwriter, band, poet ...
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Hot Afro-Cuban Jazz Performance On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, NPR In SE Florida
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, April 1st, 2011 With PAN CON BISTEC Featuring BOBBY RAMIREZ Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Bobby Ramirez has grown as a musician expressing his roots in Afro-Cuban rhythm, Latin music and American Jazz. His musical talents have blossomed within South Florida's multi-cultural environment. This multi-dimensional artist is also a writer, marketing expert, dancer and painter. His band includes Antulio Mora—piano, Nicky Orta—bass, ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 21, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 289 274 +15 0 64 1 6 2 2 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 228 257 -29 0 51 2 7 3 6 17 Brian Lynch Unsung Heroes (Hollistic) 188 158 +30 1 52 3 3 4 3 3 Jeremy Pelt Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote) 179 185 -6 0 48 2 8 ...
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Dinner Jazz, Anyone?
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
For nearly 20 years, radio programmer Bob Parlocha was the music director of the Bay Area's venerable KJAZ, as well as the host of the station's crown jewel program, Dinner Jazz. What started as a one hour pick up shift on saturday evenings in 1978, soon blossomed into the station's most popular and profitable show. Mr. Parlocha's Dinner Jazz not only established KJAZ as one of the most innovative and popular jazz stations of all time, it also succeeded in ...
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