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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 23, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 302 294 +8 1 70 1 5 2 3 1 Benny Golson New Time, New ‘Tet (Concord) 241 259 -18 0 57 1 11 3 2 3 The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 229 279 -50 0 62 1 11 4 4 4 The Clayton Brothers Brother To Brother (Artist Share) 212 233 -21 1 ...

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Accujazz Internet Radio Introduces "Modern Mainstream" Jazz Channel

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new streaming jazz channels with “Modern Mainstream," a collection of the best in mainstream jazz from the last three decades. The channel is free to use and available 24 hours a day.

For fans of quality modern jazz, the channel is likely to become a favorite listening destination. The play list includes music by masters like Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis as well as hundreds of other talented ...

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Freedom Jazz Dance: Nights at the Turntable

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2009

This Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at www.wdce.org

Tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance this Sunday 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 rare 78s and 33 1/3rds from The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, guitarist Joe Puma and piano master Art Tatum, choice selections from skins-banger Jeff Tain Watts and ...

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WBGO Launches New Program, the Checkout, to Air Tuesdays at 6:30PM

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2009

ONE HOUR MAGAZINE FORMAT WILL FOCUS ON NEW MUSIC AND INAUGURATE NEW CONTENT RICH WEBSITE

The Checkout, which makes its debut on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30pm, will be the first new produced program on the WBGO airwaves since JazzSet began 17 years ago.

Josh Jackson, host of The Checkout, first began his life in radio in New Orleans, then landed a temporary production assistant job at American Routes, and followed with public radio boot camp at Murray ...

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Radio Station KFUO is for Sale

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 1, 2009

Over the weekend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller published a story and two blog posts detailing the possible sale of KFUO (99.1 FM), the area's only classical music radio station, by its longtime owners, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. “On Feb. 19, its (board) members appointed a special committee with authority to sell St. Louis' only classical music station," the story said. “A sale would almost certainly mean the end of classical music ...

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Canada's National Public Broadcaster CBC to Slash 800 Jobs in Bid to Balance Budget

Source: Michael Ricci
March 25, 2009

Canada's national public broadcaster will cut 800 full-time jobs across the country in a bid to balance its budget, the president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. told employees on Wednesday.

Hubert Lacroix said the broadcaster is facing a budget shortfall of 171 million Canadian dollars ($139 million) this fiscal year.

He said the job cuts will help balance the budget while trying to keep local stations open.

The CBC had been unsuccessful at convincing the federal government to give it ...

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New Third Stream Internet Radio Channel on accujazz.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2009

Jazz and classical collide in the intriguing fusion that composer Gunther Schuller called “Third Stream."

Many of the greatest jazz musicians have made forays into the idiom, and to make that great music available to everyone, Internet radio has just released a new channel that plays the best in Third Stream jazz 24 hours a day.

Though Schuller coined the term, “Third Stream," in 1957, there were jazz/classical hybrids going on long before that. Charlie Parker was a fan of ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 16, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 294 291 +3 1 69 1 4 2 3 2 The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 279 287 -8 1 60 1 10 3 1 3 Benny Golson New Time, New ‘Tet (Concord) 259 301 -42 0 61 1 10 4 4 6 The Clayton Brothers Brother To Brother (Artist Share) 233 173 +60 ...

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