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"The David Baker Songbook"

Source: David Brent Johnson
December 21, 2010

David Baker is a renowned jazz educator and bandleader who came out of Indianapolis' great Indiana Avenue scene of the mid-20th century, counting among his friends and colleagues Wes Montgomery, J.J. Johnson, and Freddie Hubbard. His jazz resume is studded with notable accomplishments, associations, and awards. He came up as a standout trombonist and switched to cello after a car accident injured his jaw. His Indianapolis hard bop group of the late 1950s became a leading progressive-jazz ensemble under the ...

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The Jazz Session #225: Kali Z. Fasteau

Source: AAJ Staff
December 17, 2010

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Howard Alden, Marty Grosz on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
December 20, 2010

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band at The Landing in San Antonio for a show devoted to a trio of early jazz guitarists—Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang and Carl Kress. The show is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius sattelite radio, and can be streamed from the Riverwalk Jazz website beginning today. Recognized by Down Beat Magazine in 2008 as one of 75 ...

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Video: Pandora Accepts 30% of Music Submissions

Source: HypeBot
December 15, 2010

By now, we all pretty much know the general story of Pandora. Comparisions to rival web radio services aside, Tim Westergren is just interesting to listen to. He's like a music industry mascot with more fans than most artists. Fast Company interviewed him for their “Innovation Agents" series. I thought I'd share it here. Take a look: More: View my exclusive interview with Tim. (via ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 6, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
December 14, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 2 The Clayton Brothers The New Song And Dance (ArtistShare) 183 191 -8 0 52 1 9 2 4 4 Houston Person Moment To Moment (HighNote) 182 183 -1 0 52 1 8 2 5 6 Cassandra Wilson Silver Pony (Blue Note) 182 177 +5 0 49 2 5 4 2 7 Russell Malone Triple Play (MAXJAZZ) 180 214 -34 0 52 2 5 5 1 2 Cyrus Chestnut Journeys (JLP) ...

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AccuJazz Internet Radio gets you in the holiday spirit

Source: Lucas Gillan
December 14, 2010

Jazz connoisseurs might be forgiven for being a little Scrooge-like during the Holidays, with the sounds of watered-down Christmas music filling the air everywhere they turn. But AccuJazz Internet radio brings good news of great joy for all jazz fans: they can listen to great Christmas jazz any time of the day or night, for absolutely free, at AccuJazz.com! AccuJazz offers four different channels for the discriminating listener: Swingin' Christmas, Christmas Instrumentals, Christmas Vocals and New Christmas Jazz. Swingin' Christmas, ...

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The Jazz Session #224: Jason Robinson

Source: AAJ Staff
December 14, 2010

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Turn Youtube into Pandora with Viddyjam

Source: HypeBot
December 10, 2010

If you've ever desired a Pandora like experience on YouTube, ViddyJam delivers. It's not perfect, but does exactly what it aspires to. Plug an artist in the site, it pulls from data from Last.fm and charts out a path of similar music videos. Given the surplus of videos on YouTube, the quality isn't always there, but when the site gets it right, it nails it. Once you've started your station, the interface disappears completely. Since the site is a pet ...

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