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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 21, 2011
Source:
Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 — Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 301 151 +150 4 69 1 2 2 2 6 Jeremy Pelt Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote) 261 191 +70 1 57 2 4 3 1 1 Joe Lovano Bird Songs (Blue Note) 211 200 +11 0 57 1 6 4 9 26 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 210 130 +80 2 ...
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In Studio with Benny Green
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Groove Notes
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO When pianist Benny Green agreed to come to KPLU's Seattle studios for a solo piano performance he was on tour with his band doing a tribute to the music of Thelonious Monk so it seemed logical to have his studio session consist of Monk compositions. That was the plan, anyway ... However, just before the session was to begin, in a conversation with KPLU Evening Jazz host Abe Beeson, Benny was surprised and saddened to learned ...
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New Podcast For Independent Jazz Artists Launched; Listeners Play Role In Helping Their Careers
Source:
Bill Bowman
The Indie Jazz Café, a new weekly podcast designed to highlight the music of independent Jazz musicians from around the world, has launched. The podcast is available at indiejazzcafe.podbean.com; its main Web site is at indiejazzcafe.com. The podcast is unique in that it encourages subscribers to help play a role in the careers of the musicians it features, and it pays the artists for their music. After they have listened to the weekly podcast, subscribers are asked to return to ...
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In Studio with Pianist Vijay Iyer
Source:
Groove Notes
CLICK TO HEAR AUDIO The Vijay Iyer Trio's latest release, Historicity, won a number of “Album Of The Year" awards in 2010 and has been nominated for a 2011 Grammy as “Best Jazz Instrumental Album." Pianist, Vijay Iyer, seems pleased by this recognition but not really fazed by it. In fact, during his trio's visit to the KPLU performance studios on February 8, they only played one piece of music from Historicity—"Smoke Stack" by one of Iyer's mentors, Andrew Hill. ...
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George Shearing's Gentle Piano Jazz on Riffin Radio Show Today at 4 PM
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JamaicaMusic Offbeat
The celebrated piano jazz of Sir George Shearing who died last week at age 91 will be the dominant factor of this Sunday (February 27) Riffin show aired weekly between 4-6 PM ET on University of the West Indies (UWI) radio, News Talk 93FM. Riffin is hosted by renowned, Washington DC based musicologist Dermot Hussey. British born Shearing, who overcame blindness, died Monday (Feb 14), was a self-taught musician who became not only a great jazz pianist but also one ...
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How To: Turn Radio Airplay into Music Sales
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HypeBot
If you're getting radio airplay, how do you turn that exposure into traffic and sales? In this short video, Nimbit President and co-founder Phil Antoniades shares his experience with getting radio airplay and how he used promo codes to drive users and sales on his site. Two things are true about radio: they like giving stuff away and saying their station name. So, Antoniades used the station name as the promo code and let the radio DJs give them away. It's ...
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Ben Pollack on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
Source:
Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum Jazz Band drummer Hal Smith joins host David Holt to talk about Ben Pollack's often overlooked contribution to jazz. The show is heard on public radio stations nationwide, distributed by Public Radio International, and can also be heard on XM/Sirius sattelite radio and streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website here.Jimmy McPartland, Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Harry James and Glenn Miller who received big breaks from Pollack when they were still virtually unknown. ...
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"Boston Jazz Radio and Government Funding" by Steve Provizer
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Looks like the NEA will cut the Jazz Masters program and government funding for PBS and NPR is in jeopardy. How will such cuts effect jazz? I'll just bite off a small piece of it and focus on Boston media. There's little jazz on TV. Public television has a small stake, carrying awards ceremonies at the Kennedy Center, White House specials, a rare American Masters and the odd Ken Burns documentary. Mr. Rogers used to have great jazz guests. RIP ...
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