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JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 5, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
July 13, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Spiral (Palmetto) 209 238 -29 1 55 1 7 2 11 9 Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke Band (Heads Up) 191 150 +41 6 63 2 3 3 10 9 Trombone Shorty Backatown (Verve Forecast) 169 152 +17 0 63 2 12 4 5 16 Yotam Resonance (JLP) 165 185 -20 2 46 4 5 5 1 37 Jason Moran Ten (Blue Note) 156 380 ...

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Dr. Lonnie Smith - "Spiral reaches" #1 on JazzWeek Radio chart

Source: Patrick Rustici
July 12, 2010

Dr. Lonnie Smith's latest Palmetto Records release, Spiral, goes to #1 on the Jazz Week chart. JazzWeek is the definitive Jazz national radio airplay chart--a weekly report of the top fifty Jazz recordings played on radio stations across the United States and Canada.

All About Jazz reviews Spiral

Vitality and age might be normally be at odds with one another, but not when discussing Dr. Lonnie Smith--the inimitable organ shaman of the modern soul-jazz epoch. Whether turning in clever takes ...

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"Phoning It In" with Maria Schneider

Source: Brian Camelio
July 12, 2010

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Argentinos: Esteban Sehinkman 3

Source: Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
July 12, 2010

Argentina's World Cup team may have lost in apocalyptic fashion last Saturday (something in the sun-drenched field and a screaming Carlos Tevez seemed to augur the End of Days), but don't expect to be rid of the Argentines any time soon if you're a reader of this blog.

Next month, Guillermo Klein, Pipi Piazzolla, Richard Nant, Juan Cruz de Urquiza, and Matías Méndez will come to New York from Buenos Aires for a week-long engagement at the Village Vanguard that ...

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MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: July 12-18, 2010

Source: Michael Ricci
July 12, 2010

This Monday, July 12th, we'll present another edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on the great bassist, composer, Grammy-winner and born and raised New Yorker, MARCUS MILLER. You'll hear of his career beginnings growing up in The Big Apple where his funky style helped establish him early on as a first call studio player. You'll hear how meeting and recording with Miles Davis changed the course of his life ...

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The 3 Cohens and "Braid" Featured on NPR

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
July 9, 2010

One family--one music. The remarkable story of 3 Cohens, Yuval (the older brother), Anat (the middle sister) and Avishai (the youngest sibling), continues with the November 20, 2007 release of their new recording, Braid (Anzic Records). It is obvious that the Cohens would have some sort of telepathy and symbiosis on the bandstand and in the studio, but the level of interplay and musical cooperation that exists between the siblings on Braid can only be described as astounding. Their individual ...

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Sirius XM Radio Now Has 19.5 Million Suscribers

Source: HypeBot
July 8, 2010

Sirius XM Radio has now broken the 19.5 million subscribers mark. This makes sense.  Well, sort of; it would make sense to my father.  He and I recently got back from a 3,000 mile road trip, spending near entire days in the car, and since he can only tolerate so much of my music, we listened to lots of radio.  After awhile, losing stations every 30 minutes can get frustrating, let alone the stretches where no reception, from any station ...

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Off the A-Train: Paul Gonsalves 1957-1963

Source: David Brent Johnson
July 8, 2010

If it were a film, it might be called “Six Minutes Over Newport"--the story of Duke Ellington tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves' solo bombing run that dropped 27 choruses on a disbelieving and increasingly rapturous audience at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. Ellington would often say afterwards that he had been “born again" that night, and Gonsalves' extended musical moment enshrined him in the annals of jazz history--so much so that the fine small-group recordings he made away from the Ellington ...

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