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Jazz Now! Seattle Podcast Previews 2010 Earshot Jazz Fest
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Jason Parker
Jazz Now! Seattle, a new podcast dedicated to spotlighting the amazing jazz music and musicians in Seattle, WA., will be airing special previews of the 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival. Over the next four weeks the podcast will play music from all of the Seattle artists featured in this year's festival. The preview begins this Friday, October 15th and continues on the shows that debut on October 22nd, 29th and November 5th. This week's show will feature music from Richard Cole, ...
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The Jazz Session #207: Don Sebesky (CTI Records)
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AAJ Staff
Grammy and Tony award winner Don Sebesky wrote and arranged music for many of the classic CTI recordings. You can hear his work on a new boxed set, CTI: The Cool Revolution (Sony Masterworks, 2010). In this interview, Sebesky talks about how CTI got started and how it developed its signature sound; his experience working with Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Paul Desmond, Grover Washington, Jr. and many others; and why he still considers his time at CTI one of the ...
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Riverwalk Jazz Presents "A Night at Bricktop's: Jazz in 1930s' Montmartre"
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Don Mopsick
Beginning Thursday, October 7, Riverwalk Jazz, heard nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM, will present a special broadcast on Ada 'Bricktop' Smith, who played barkeep to the “Lost Generation" of international ex-patriots living in Paris in the 1930s. The broadcast will feature frequent guest singer/actors Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman, who offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Bricktop and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz band is joined by pianist Shelly Berg and Django Reinhardt-inspired guitarist Paul Mehling. ...
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Pandora Hits 65 Million Registered Users; up 8% Since July...
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Digital Music News
Pandora founder Tim Westergren may be getting squeezed on recording royalties, but everything is peachy on the audience side. During a keynote discussion at the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in Washington on Monday, Westergren pointed to a registered userbase of 65 million, up from just 60 million in late-July (as then disclosed by Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy in New York). That represents a quick, 8 percent gain over a very short period. And how many are active users? ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 27, 2010
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 5 Steve Turre Delicious & Delightful (HighNote) 258 223 +35 0 72 1 5 2 5 9 Conrad Herwig The Latin Side Of Herbie Hancock (Half Note) 196 184 +12 0 54 2 5 3 3 4 James Moody Moody 4B (IPO) 195 210 -15 0 50 1 6 4 6 1 Tamir Hendelman Destinations (Resonance) 163 181 -18 0 49 1 9 5 8 8 Kenny Burrell Be Yourself (HighNote) ...
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Early Works From Maria Schneider
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Clay Wilson
Maria Schneider's latest collaboration with ArtistShare allows fans to access recordings from early on in Maria's journey to becoming one of the most distinctive voices in big band composition. The three pieces; “Espino," “Samba Solstice," and “Last Season" exhibit traces of the same lush harmonies and captivating rhythms that listeners love about Maria's recent recordings. Fan's of Maria should not miss this exclusive preview! To access this streaming audio from Maria simply redeem your certificate log in number (1-1158513646-80277) by ...
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