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Women of Jazz Celebrated with Internet Radio Station

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

Sometimes it can seem like the jazz world is a man's, man's, man's world (as James Brown would say), but there have always been excellent female musicians creating jazz on par with that of their male counterparts. AccuJazz Internet radio celebrates the women of jazz with a new Internet radio channel released today. The new channel, simply titled “Women of Jazz," is streaming 24 hours a day and is completely free to use. The play list selects from over 700 ...

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Pure Jazz Radio Special: Monk & Trane at Carnegie 1957

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

March 21, 2009 10am & pm (est)

”At Carnegie Hall” is a much acclaimed live album by The Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane.

It was recorded on 29 November 1957 at “Thanksgiving Jazz", a benefit concert produced by Kenneth Lee Karpe for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem. The recording, by Voice of America.

The tape was stored at the Library of Congress where it sat, untouched, until 2005 when it was discovered by recording lab supervisor Larry Appelbaum. ...

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NPR How the West Was Lost

Source: Michael Ricci
March 18, 2009

'Day to Day's' end severs NPR's strongest tie to the West. Back East, they circle the wagons. Out West, Brand's voice and more are lost.

Faux-Westerners tend to give themselves away. They drive with their convertible tops down on frigid winter days. They write lyrically about night air filled with the pungent smell of (scentless) bougainvillea. And, when times get tough, they revert to their Eastern roots.

National Public Radio feels like a slightly tone-deaf interloper this week, as it ...

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Pure Jazz Radio New Saturday Lineup...

Source: All About Jazz
March 18, 2009

Many thanks to the thousands of people, from all over the world, who have joined us at Pure Jazz Radio.

Thanks to all who have participated in our “Partners in Jazz" promotion. Again, for providing a link or advertisement, on your site or newsletter, for “Pure Jazz Radio" we will list you as a “Partner in Jazz” with a link to your site.

Updated Program Notes:

“NY Tonight" (live) M - F 8pm to 11pm (EST) (rebroadcast 12m to ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 9, 2009

Source: All About Jazz
March 17, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 3 Benny Golson New Time, New ‘Tet (Concord) 301 284 +17 0 64 1 9 2 1 2 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 291 305 -14 3 67 1 3 3 2 1 The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 287 299 -12 0 58 1 9 4 6 4 The Clayton Brothers Brother To Brother (Artist Share) 173 195 -22 0 50 ...

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Ran Blake Live on WGBH !

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2009

To celebrate the release of his new album, Driftwoods, Ran Blake will play a rare live solo piano performance at 9PM on WGBH this Wednesday March 18th, airing locally on 89.7FM Boston and streaming globally via wgbh.org/jazz, click on “Listen Live.”

Ran Blake is an iconoclast. Since his 1961 collaboration with Jeanne Lee on RCA, Ran Blake has released 35 albums on such labels as ESP, Soul Note, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album on the Tompkins Square label, All ...

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New Internet Radio Station Devoted to Pre-1940 Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new, creatively programmed jazz channels with “Decade: Pre-1940," a radio stream exclusively playing jazz recorded before 1940.

For jazz fans who don't know much about what happened before bebop, the new channel is an essential education. The play list includes a variety of early jazz styles. Freewheeling New Orleans jazz by Jelly Roll Morton, raucous big band swing by Duke Ellington, and French gypsy jazz by Django Reinhardt all have a place ...

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Sirius XM's Loss Shrinks, Subscribers Increase

Source: PC Magazine
March 12, 2009

Sirius XM Radio posted better than expected quarterly sales and a smaller loss, fueled by cost cutting and increased subscriptions for its satellite pay-radio service. Sirius, which last week said it had completed a critical financing move that solved looming debt problems for the year, said its sales rose to $622.2 million, up 16 percent from a year ago, and outpacing analysts view of $615.5 million, according to Reuters Estimates. Its net loss on a pro forma basis was $248.5 ...

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