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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 4, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 3 Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) 204 189 +15 1 51 1 6 2 3 6 Sean Jones The Search Within (Mack Avenue) 198 186 +12 3 52 2 7 3 14 — Stanley Clarke Jazz In The Garden (Heads Up) 187 114 +73 23 60 3 2 4 25 — Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) 182 94 +88 23 57 4 2 5 1 1 ...

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Internet Radio Station Devoted to Young Jazz Artists

Source: All About Jazz
May 12, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new creatively programmed jazz channels today with the launch of “Emerging Voices," a streaming jazz channel playing exclusively jazz by young musicians. The channel is completely free to use and available 24 hours a day. While the AccuJazz programmers love and treasure the classic jazz recordings of yesterday's jazz greats, it would be a tragedy to turn a blind eye to all of the magnificent young talent making waves today. There are ...

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Beyond the Blues: The Harmonica in Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 11, 2009

Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the harmonica has long been the perfect instrument for a nation on the move.

Its popularity has waxed and waned, and it's most often heard in blues music today. But every now and again, the harmonica crosses over to jazz.

Hear five great blues-harmonica players who have applied their skills and their instrument to jazz songs. The songs are chosen by Nick Morrison and Robin Lloyd from Jazz 24 as ...

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Don Wolff's "I Love Jazz" Radio Program Moving to 8:00 P.M. Fridays, Expanding to Four Hours

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 10, 2009

On Friday night, longtime St. Louis radio personality and jazz advocate Don Wolff celebrated the one-year anniversary of the move of his long-running program “I Love Jazz" to KFUO (99.1 FM). Wolff's anniversary broadcast brought some additional good news, as he announced that starting on May 30, “I Love Jazz," which for the past year has been broadcast from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Fridays, will expand to four hours and move to an earlier time slot, airing ...

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CBS and Last.FM Consolidate Online Radio Units

Source: HypeBot
May 8, 2009

The CBS Interactive Music Group has been formed to bring together various CBS digital music assets including CBS Radio's more than 100 online audio streams, various mobile applications and Last.fm. At launch, the combined assets of the newly formed CBS Interactive Music Group reach almost 40 million unique monthly users worldwide.

David Goodman who has been named President, CBS Interactive Music Group. A veteran of CBS Radio since 2002, Goodman has served as President, Digital Media and Integrated Marketing for ...

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Sirius Subscriber Numbers Fall

Source: PC Magazine
May 8, 2009

NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Sirius XM Radio Inc lost more subscribers to its satellite radio service than expected in the first quarter due to weak car sales, overshadowing a rosy outlook driven by cost cuts and sending its shares sharply lower. The company, which borrowed $530 million from Liberty Media Corp earlier this year to stave off looming debt problems, said subscribers to the pay-radio service declined by some 400,000, or about 2 percent, ending the period at ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 27, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
May 6, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 191 212 -21 1 56 1 10 2 3 2 Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) 189 176 +13 3 51 2 5 3 6 4 Sean Jones The Search Within (Mack Avenue) 186 156 +30 3 50 3 6 4 2 3 The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 173 184 -11 0 45 1 ...

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Surprise! Study Shows Few Indies on Radio

Source: HypeBot
May 1, 2009

Artist advocacy group The Future Of Music Coalition has released a new report “Same Old Song" confirming that indie music is not getting its fair share of airplay on broadcast radio.

In April 2007, the FCC found widespread payola and ordered the four largest U.S. radio groups (Clear Channel, CBS, Citadel and Entercom) to pay $12.5 million in fines and work with the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) to draft 8 “Rules of Engagement" and an “indie set-aside" including ...

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