Radio News

AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches All-'90s Jazz Channel

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its periodic roll-out of decade-based jazz channels with the launch of “Decade: '90s," a free, easy-to-use streaming jazz channel playing the best jazz from the 1990s. The '90s were a time of incredible diversity in the jazz world. It's impossible to tether the decade's jazz activity to any single style, concept, or trend. The one sure thing about jazz in the 20th Century's last decade is that the artists passionately continued to create meaningful music in ...

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The Jazz Session #73: Bill Anschell and Brent Jensen

Source: Michael Ricci
August 20, 2009

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B.J. Jansen Pays Tribute to Les Paul on the Jazz Life

Source: JM Creative
August 20, 2009

Les Paul is remembered by B.J. Jansen on his Jazz Life Show. B.J. Jansen pays tribute to Jazz Guitar Legend Les Paul with an interview he did less than a year ago with Les. Jansen Remembers: “Speaking with Les Paul... was so down-to-earth and comfortable... like talking to your Grandpa. I am lucky to have had the chance to interview him and listen to jazz history first-hand from Les. Les Paul confirmed ...

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Nora McCarthy NY Jazz Vocalist Joins UK Jazz Radio

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2009

UK Jazz Radio has announced that Nora McCarthy, an important force in the advanced New York jazz vocal scene, has joined the Presenter team at the 24 hour jazz radio station.

Nora McCarthy is a highly original singer, lyricist, composer, poet and educator. She and her various groups work at the top jazz venues in New York and elsewhere in the world.

In her programme, being broadcast several times across the week to give everyone the opportunity to catch the ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 10, 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
August 18, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 4 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 261 290 -29 12 63 1 3 2 3 1 Joe Locke & David Hazeltine Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine) 206 195 +11 1 53 1 8 3 2 5 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) 201 268 -67 0 54 1 9 4 7 7 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 172 167 +5 ...

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The Jazz Session #72: Gene Ludwig

Source: Michael Ricci
August 17, 2009

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Board of Directors to Debate KFUO Sale This Week

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 17, 2009

"The board of directors of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod will debate selling radio station KFUO-FM when it meets this week, with the fate of classical music broadcasting in St. Louis hanging in the balance," begins the story by Sarah Bryan Miller in this Sunday's edition of the Post-Dispatch. “The leading candidate to buy KFUO (99.1 FM) appears to be Joy FM, alistener-supported Christian contemporary station," the story continues. “A sale to Joy would rebuff a group of ...

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FCC Seeks Comments on musicFIRST Petition

Source: Just Roots PR
August 16, 2009

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on the petition filed by the musicFIRST Coalition. The petition details how radio stations across the country refuse to air musicFIRST ads, threaten artists who support the effort to create a fair performance right on radio and continue to run misleading ads produced by the National Association of Broadcasters – all in an effort to further their own private commercial interests at the expense of their public interest obligations.

“We are pleased that ...

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