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Freedom Jazz Dance Extended Play

Source: Ken Hohman
October 1, 2010

Sunday from 5 PM-7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at wdce.org Archived shows uploaded at Freedom Jazz Dance two days after each live broadcast. It's an extended play version of Freedom Jazz Dance this week as I mark my last FM broadcast of 2010! Tune in to the sound of freedom in the groove this Sunday from 5-9 PM. This week I'll be spinning choice selections from vocalist Giacomo Gates, the Metta Quintet, drummer ...

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New Podcast "Jazz Now! Seattle" Debuts Oct. 1st Playing Seattle's Best Current Jazz

Source: Jason Parker
September 30, 2010

Seattle jazz musicians have a new outlet for their music, and jazz fans around the world have a way to hear all of the amazing jazz that's coming out of Seattle, WA. “Jazz Now! Seattle" is a new podcast that makes its debut Friday, October 1, 2010. “Jazz Now! Seattle" is hosted by Jason Parker and David Marriott, Jr., both working jazz musicians in Seattle. Because they are both active on the scene they will bring listeners an insider's perspective ...

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Swinging on the South Side: The Heartbeat of Chicago Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
September 30, 2010

This week on Riverwalk Jazz (distributed nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM), vocalist Topsy Chapman, singer Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist {Dick Hyman}} join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the 'black and tans' of the '20s to the grand ballrooms of the '30s. Tony Jackson arrived in Chicago from New Orleans around 1912, and Jelly Roll Morton showed up soon after. By 1918, New Orleans jazzmen Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard ...

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The Jazz Session #204: Darrell Katz

Source: AAJ Staff
September 30, 2010

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We Brothers Three: the Joneses, Heaths and Montgomerys

Source: David Brent Johnson
September 30, 2010

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Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "New Jazz, Straight Ahead (part 2)"

Source: J. Scott Fugate
September 28, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum—A Journey Through Jazz Episode 24: “New Jazz, Straight Ahead (Part 2)" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As it has been with the past 23 episode (which are still available on the soulandjazz.com website, by the way) the show is absolutely free, completely legal, fun for the whole family, and available to listen to anytime, anywhere, ad infinitum. The week before last, I did an episode featuring some of ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 20, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
September 28, 2010

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks177Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)256165+9117415256Steve Turre Delicious & Delightful (HighNote)223170+5306024341James Moody Moody 4B (IPO)210195+1505715435The Marsalis Family Music Redeems (Marsalis)201199+205035593Conrad Herwig The Latin Side Of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)184155+2905534612Tamir Hendelman Destinations (Resonance)181221-4015518769Freddy Cole Freddy Cole Sings Mr.B (HighNote)148167-1904664884Kenny Burrell Be Yourself (HighNote)147157-1004011091331Hadley Caliman & Pete Christlieb Reunion (Origin)133129+404794102429Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke Band (Heads Up)13275+57059214111010Curtis Fuller I Will Tell Her (Capri)127140-1303911412——Dmitry Baevsky Down With It (Sharp Nine)12143+78250121121717Jim Rotondi 1000 Rainbows (Posi-Tone)121105+16041124141612Adam Schroeder A Handful of Stars (Capri)117107+10031128152126Danilo Perez Providencia (Mack ...

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'Serious Jazz' Tribute to Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat
September 28, 2010

The life and music of the amazing Jamaican saxophonist Wilton “Bogey" Gaynair will be the highlight of a special visual presentation, narrated by renowned historian and musicologist Herbie Miller. The WDNA 88.9 FM, serious jazz, organized tribute is being stage at the ,its Coral Way. Jazz Gallery this Saturday, October 2. The late Jamaican tenor saxophonist is regarded as one of the greatest practitioners ever to play the instrument. Bogey's body of work is mostly unheralded, yet it remains relevant ...

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