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Get Kind of Brown This Sunday on Freedom Jazz Dance
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Michael Ricci
Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at wdce.org Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Feelin' kinda blue? Get kinda brown and tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance for the unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove with the latest, greatest performers and rare recordings throughout the history of jazz. This week, Ill be spinning tunes from the latest Christian McBride release, ...
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Hadley Caliman and Gail Pettis Tie for #7 on JazzWeek Airplay Chart
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Two Seattle releases, Hadley Caliman's Straight Ahead and Gail Pettis' Here In The Moment, are currently tied in the #7 spot on the JazzWeek National Radio Airplay Chart with Pat Metheny's Orchestrion. 1 - STEVE HOBBS Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 2 - AHMAD JAMAL A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 3 - JOHN STEIN Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 4 - JEREMY PELT Men Of Honor (HighNote) 5 - JOE LOCKE For The ...
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Update on Pending Sale of KFUO
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
There are a couple of items in the news this week related to the pending sale of radio station KFUO (99.1 FM). First, as reported by the Post-Dispatch's Sarah Bryan Miller in a post on the Culture Club blog, it looks as if the originally announced March 1 target date for closing the sale likely will pass without KFUO changing hands. Miller has more about the significance of this in her post here. Second, via Chris ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 15, 2010
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 2 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 257 221 +36 6 58 1 4 2 1 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 247 246 +1 1 55 1 6 3 8 7 John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 182 134 +48 5 50 2 5 4 9 16 Don Braden & Mark Rapp The Strayhorn Project (Premium Music Solutions) 170 130 +40 9 ...
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Thelonious Monk: From Myth to Man (Part 2)
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Michael Ricci
In the late 1950s Thelonious Monk's star finally began to rise, eventually culminating in a recording contract with Columbia Records and a 1964 Time Magazine cover story. But even as the pianist hit artistic and commercial peaks, other problems began to set in. After his death in 1982 he remained shrouded in the mythic, high-priest-of-bebop image that had been crafted for him in the late 1940s, and which had eventually overwhelmed the reality of the creative, funny, sensitive and loving ...
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