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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 13, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 213 261 -48 0 58 1 8 2 2 22 Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) 212 254 -42 4 58 2 3 3 5 2 The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 204 189 +15 1 57 1 14 4 14 11 Sean Jones The Search Within (Mack Avenue) 197 132 +65 6 53 4 ...

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The Jazz Session #54: Barbara Dennerlein

Source: All About Jazz
April 20, 2009

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This Week on Jazz Northwest

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
April 17, 2009

On the next Jazz Northwest from 88-5 KPLU, saxophonist and composer Mark Taylor leads his quartet in an Art of Jazz concert and CD release party at the Seattle Art Museum. Mark Taylor was recently named Northwest Instrumentalist of the Year at the annual Earshot Awards, and he’s been featured in numerous Seattle groups including the Jim Knapp Orchestra and the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, Thomas Marriott and Matt Jorgensen + 451. The new CD Spectre (Origin Records) was officially ...

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The Jazz Session #53: Fly

Source: All About Jazz
April 17, 2009

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New Jazz Organ Internet Radio Channel

Source: All About Jazz
April 16, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new streaming jazz channels today with “Organ Jazz," an entire channel devoted to the incomparable sound of the Hammond B3 Organ. The channel is completely free to use and available 24 hours a day.

The organ took some time to become a well-respected jazz instrument, but thanks to the artistry of musicians like Jimmy Smith, Richard “Groove" Holmes, and Larry Young, it has become an essential part of jazz's recorded history. Recordings ...

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Marlon Jordan on Jazzset with Dee Dee Bridgewater from NPR Music

Source: Sylvain Music Notes
April 14, 2009

Sylvain Music Notes Just in time for the New Orleans Jazz Fest, the Marlon Jordan Quartet's recent Live Concert at the Glenwood Springs, Colorado Summer of Jazz series will broadcast during last weekend of April on JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater from NPR Music beginning on Thursday, April 23 in more than 115 markets nationwide. In New Orleans, the show airs on WWNO 89.9 FM on Saturday, April 25 at 7:00 pm; in Baton Rouge on WBRH 90.3 FM on ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 6, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
April 14, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 261 233 +28 0 65 1 7 2 22 — Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) 254 114 +140 20 58 2 2 3 3 2 Benny Golson New Time, New ‘Tet (Concord) 196 212 -16 1 57 1 13 3 21 20 Branford Marsalis Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music) 196 115 +81 11 51 3 3 5 2 3 The Blue Note 7 ...

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New Internet Radio Station Plays Only Bird and Diz Tunes

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new streaming jazz channels today with “Composers: Bird and Diz," a channel devoted entirely to the compositions of bebop masters Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The channel is free to use and available 24 hours a day.

When Parker and Gillespie (nicknamed “Bird" and “Diz," respectively) burst on to the scene in the 1940's, it was as if an earthquake had struck the jazz world. The new style they created, “Bebop," was ...

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