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MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: March 29-April 4, 2010
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Michael Ricci
This Monday, March 29th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time we'll remember the late, great MICHAEL BRECKER on the day he would have turned 61 years old. You'll hear all about Michael's beginnings in his hometown of Philadelphia, his move to New York to join his brother Randy in the creation of one of the great bands of all time, The Brecker Brothers. You'll hear some of ...
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Pandora by the Numbers
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HypeBot
At a recent NYC Pandora listener meetup CEO Tim Westergren offered these Pandora stats:
It costs Pandora 2/hr to stream
Pandora adds about 85,000 new listeners per day
Pandora makes up 1 1/4 of all radio
Out of 100 hours, 1 hour and 15 minutes of radio is listened to on Pandora
Pandora has 3/4 of a million songs so far; 90 million of those three-fourths were played last month
Dancing Queen" by ABBA was Pandora's first ...
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Michael Wolff on NPR Jazzset 4/1; West Coast Tour in May
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Seth Cohen PR
Acclaimed jazz pianist Michael Wolff's appearance at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. is confirmed for broadcast on NPR Jazzset on April 1st. The performance will air on 119 NPR stations nationwide, and via jazzset.npr.org. Airdates on WBGO in New York will be Sunday, April 4th at 6pm and Wednesday, April 7th at 6:30pm. Wolff recently wrapped up a successful multi-weekend stand at his beloved Knickerbocker club in lower Manhattan (and plans a return for April 23rd and 24th.) Wolff ...
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Hadley Caliman Currently #2 on JazzWeek
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Hadley Calimans new CD Straight Ahead continues to dominate national jazz radio. This week he moved up from number 5 to the number 2 spot behind Ahmad Jamal. Currently in the number 3 spot is Mike LeDonne who will be performing this Thursday at Tulas Jazz Club.
1 - AHMAD JAMAL A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 2 - HADLEY CALIMAN Straight Ahead (Origin) 3 - MIKE LEDONNE The Groover (Savant) 4 - JEREMY PELT Men ...
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Zollar Moves up the JazzWeek Chart To #20
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Kari-On Productions
James Zollar moves up the national Jazzweek Radio Chart this week. In, 1984, he moved to New York City and played with the Cecil McBee Quintet for five years and then recorded with Tom Harrell, with Weldon Erving and Sam Rivers. Zollar was featured in Robert Altman's motion picture “Kansas City", in Madonna's music video “My Baby's Got a Secret", as well as Malcolm Lee's film “The Best Man". He played on the sound truck of “The Perez Family" and ...
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