Radio News

Internet Radio Station Devoted to Chicago Jazz Artists

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

AccuJazz Internet Radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels today with the launch of “Regions: Chicago," a streaming channel playing over 1,000 songs by artists who have called the Windy City home. The channel is completely free to use and available 24 hours a day. Countless jazz legends have called Chicago home, and the city has incubated some of the music's most important movements, from the blossoming of expatriate New Orleanians like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 15, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
June 23, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 10 — Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez Quartet Live (Concord) 276 142 +134 18 63 1 2 2 1 4 Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) 202 225 -23 0 48 1 12 3 1 1 One For All Return Of The Lineup (Sharp Nine) 200 225 -25 0 53 1 9 4 6 13 Scotty Barnhart Say It Plain (Dig Music) 174 154 +20 0 48 4 ...

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The Jazz Session #63: Rudder

Source: All About Jazz
June 22, 2009

Listen Keyboardist Henry Hey, saxophonist Chris Cheek and bassist Tim Lefebvre, who, along with drummer Keith Carlock, make up the band Rudder. These four musicians are incredibly busy in the jazz and pop worlds, but they've found the time to create a hip-shaking, brain-stimulating musical hybrid that some critics have said is in a genre all by itself. In this interview, the band talks about its history, the odd name of its new album (Matorning), and the relative lack of ...

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Sirius Launches iPhone App Sans Stern

Source: HypeBot
June 20, 2009

Sirius XM has released a long due official iPhone and iPod Touch app. The service is free for Sirius XM subscribers and $3 a month for others. 120 channles of news and music from Sinatra to Sprinsteen are covered, but missing from the mobile device lineup is some major league sports, NASCAR and...Howard Stern.

Sirius XM did not comment on why Stern was not included or what the effect might be when tens of thousands of paying Sirius subscribers realize ...

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Jelli Crowdsources Radio Programming

Source: HypeBot
June 18, 2009

Broadcast radio sucks. It's programmed by computers controlled by old white men looking over their shoulders for advice from a handful of consultants and focus groups. What if we, the people, controlled what was played? It would have to better than it is now, right?

Jelli.net aims to find out. Jelli is user-controlled radio. The service lets fans take over a radio station using their web browsers and empowers the community to interact with the broadcast ...

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Sarah Vaughan and Lester Young at Town Hall, NYC 1947

Source: Michael Ricci
June 18, 2009

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Hypebot on the CD Baby Podcast: Booking, the Musical Middle Class and More

Source: HypeBot
June 17, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I spent an enjoyable hour on the phone with Kevin Breuner, the Director Of Social Media for CD Baby. The result is now the latest in his informative ongoing series of CD Baby DIY Musician podcasts. We covered some of the ground that you find daily on Hypebot, but we also dug deeper than I usually do into my roll as the prez.of the boutique national booking agency Skyline Music. How ...

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Hot Latin Jazz Live on 91.3, WLRN, Miami

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2009

Please tune in for another studio performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Featuring The Cuban Legends Friday, June 19, 2009 at 1:00pm Eastern, U.S. The Cuban Legends offer superb musicians with hundreds of years of combined performance and recording experience in Latin Jazz, Salsa, Pop and Rock. Pianist Paquito Echevarria played with the celebrated bands of Havana in the 1950's. He performed at The Fontainbleau in the 60's backing up Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and other international stars ...

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