Radio News

San Antonio Swing Reborn on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
April 28, 2011

This week, Riverwalk Jazz revisits San Antonio's hot spots and revives hot dance music of the city's historic East Side in the 1930s. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band expands to a 12- piece orchestra, performing new arrangements of rarely heard Swing Era compositions from the Don Albert Orchestra and Boots and His Buddies. The weekly jazz series is distributed in the US by Public Radio International and Sirius/XM, and can be streamed worldwide from the Riverwalk Jazz website. A special ...

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The Jazz Session #260: Adam Cruz

Source: AAJ Staff
April 26, 2011

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 18, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
April 26, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 238 239 -1 0 62 1 10 2 8 4 Yellowjackets Timeline (Mack Avenue) 214 133 +81 1 63 2 7 3 3 5 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 209 185 +24 0 56 3 6 4 2 3 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 208 203 +5 0 51 2 5 5 4 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To ...

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Shueh-li Ong: Streamed Interactive Chat and Performance on April 27

Source: Shueh-li Ong
April 26, 2011

Since her move to America in 2005, Singapore's 1st and only diva of the theremin; Shueh-li Ong, has made delicate but indelible steps into the world of popular music. Her sound has been described by some as electronic-jazz-fusion-pop, and by others; sophisticated east meets west. Her work as composer, producer and entertainer has been picked up for mention by Electronic Musician magazine, ThereminVox Italy, USAprogmusic, Synth Music & Electronics, Arts Monthly Australia, and Business Times Singapore, to name a few. ...

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Cheltenham Jazz Festival’s Dedicated Radio Station: Jazz Town FM 87.7

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 25, 2011

The internationally renowned Cheltenham Jazz Festival is to host its own dedicated radio station with Jazz Town FM available at 87.7 FM and worldwide online at www.fromheretoear.com

Broadcast live from an onsite radio station at The Cheltenham Town Hall, the one-week radio station provides exclusive live performances from Jazz Festival artists, festival news and interviews.

The station is in its second year of broadcast and is run by students from The University of Gloucestershire's Radio Production and Popular Music courses. ...

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Get Lucky: Freedom Jazz Dance Volume 3 is uploade for your reading and listening pleasure!

Source: Ken Hohman
April 22, 2011

Dig fresh new jazz reviews, listen to rare jazz tracks at the Freedom Jazz Dance website Just in time for Jazz Appreciation Month, the Volume 3, 2011 Edition of the Freedom Jazz Dance website is live at www.freedomjazzdance.net. Pay a visit today and dig through the ear and eye candy I've created in the second installment of this one-of-a-kind Mini Jazz Webzine & Show. WebMag #3 for 2011 features... FJD Featured Recording of the month by The Chris Byars Octet ...

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The Jazz Session #259: Matthew Shipp and Darius Jones

Source: AAJ Staff
April 22, 2011

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"Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
April 21, 2011

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz. A fast-talking, wisecracking Midwesterner, Condon epitomized Chicago Jazz. The show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM Sattelite Radio and streamed worldwide from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Joining us this week is photographer, author and record producer Hank O'Neal, who collaborated on Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz. Also, daughter Maggie Condon shares her wealth of memories. She paints this picture of her father at the ...

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