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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 21, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
March 29, 2011

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?

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
March 29, 2011

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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The Jazz Session #252: Nico Soffiato

Source: AAJ Staff
March 29, 2011

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The Jazz Session #251: Ben Allison

Source: AAJ Staff
March 25, 2011

Bassist Ben Allison delivers an original and exciting take on tunes by everyone from Samuel Barber to Neil Young to Thelonious Monk on his new CD, Action-Refraction (Palmetto, 2011). In this interview, Allison talks about an iPhone app that changed the sound palette on his new record; two musicians whove joined him for the first time on this CD; and how he deals with the lyrical content of these songs in his instrumental arrangements. NOTE: This episode contains an advanced ...

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Texas Caceres Family Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
March 24, 2011

This week Riverwalk Jazz presents a tribute to the Texas musical legacy of the Caceres family. The show is distributed nationwide in the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on Sirius/XM as well as streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Hot jazz has always found a home in San Antonio. In the 1930s, Emilio and Ernie Caceres were its hottest exports. New York critics praised the brothers' 1937 Victor recordings with Emilio swinging hard on violin. They admired ...

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Celebrating Time Out: David Sanborn on Paul Desmond

Source: Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
March 24, 2011

In 2009, Dave Brubeck's musical masterpiece Time Out turned 50 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, I produced a podcast series celebrating this timeless work. Along with interviewing Dave Brubeck himself about the album, I also interviewed three additional musicians saxophonist David Sanborn, bassist Mike Richmond and drummer Bill Bruford to discuss the influential work of Time Out band members, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello. For reasons beyond my scope, this series was never released. Featured on this ...

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The Jazz Session #250: Fred Hersch

Source: AAJ Staff
March 22, 2011

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 14, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
March 22, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 274 286 -12 0 61 1 5 2 2 4 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 257 248 +9 0 56 2 6 3 3 3 Jeremy Pelt Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote) 185 209 -24 0 41 2 7 4 5 5 Ernestine Anderson Nightlife: Live At Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (HighNote) 172 171 +1 ...

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