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Charlie Rouse's Legacy Lives on Through Internet Radio and New Club

Source: Rouse Public Relations
October 18, 2008

WHRR House of Rouse Radio plays JAZZ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with one of the largest jazz collections in the world.

Chico's House of Jazz, located at 631 Lake Avenue Asbury Park, NJ is slated to be New Jersey's # 1 Jazz Night Spot. WHRR and Chico's House of Jazz were created by Charles “Chico" Rouse on behalf of his father, the legendary tenor saxophone player, Charles Rouse, Sr.

Charles Rouse Sr. has graced many classic ...

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Jazz St. Louis Adds New Podcasts, Feeds

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 16, 2008

Jazz St. Louis has made available two more podcasts in their ongoing series.The third installment in the series features an interview with JSL director of education Phil Dunlap, and can be heard here. The fourth and latest podcast interview to go online features saxophonist Javon Jackson, who will be in St. Louis next week to perform with pianist Les McCann at Jazz at the Bistro. That podcast can be heard here.JSL Web guru Adam Roach reports ...

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B.J. Jansen & Conjura to be Featured on Ty Bailey's "Just Jazz" Radio Show on WVST FM

Source: All About Jazz
October 16, 2008

B.J. Jansen & CONJURA will be featured this Sunday, October 19th from 8pm until 10pm (EST) on WVST FM in Petersburg, Virginia. Jazz Host, Ty Bailey from WVST will be playing select cuts from B.J. Jansen & CONJURA's debut release, The Movement Vol. 1, on his show “Just Jazz". Tune in to WVST FM via their live web simulcast online and listen worldwide. http://www.vsu.edu/pages/112.asp Click here for more information on WVST and Ty Bailey's “Just Jazz". http://www.vsu.edu/pages/112.asp Here is what ...

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New William Parker Quartet CD Reviewed on NPR's Fresh Air

Source: Improvised Communications
October 14, 2008

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 6, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2008

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 8 McCoy Tyner Guitars (McCoy Tyner Music) 241 273 -32 7 70 1 3 2 2 2 Roy Hargrove Earfood (Emarcy) 229 242 -13 1 55 1 12 3 3 4 David Sanborn Here And Gone (Decca) 220 220 0 0 54 2 10 4 4 2 Mike LeDonne FiveLive (Savant) 193 211 -18 6 63 2 6 5 6 7 Joe Locke Force of Four (Origin) 178 ...

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All That Caz Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
October 12, 2008

Former JPMorgan Cazenove chief Robert Pickering seemed relaxed, just back from Buenos Aires, as he mingled with aficionados for the relaunch of Jazz FM radio station by Aim-listed Local Radio Company's Richard Wheatley at Covent Garden club The Hospital. Mr Wheatley told guests it was “hell of a time to launch a radio station, but it's times like this that people will need cool jazz". He could afford to be chirpy, as he sold Jazz FM in 2002 to the ...

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NPR Music Webcasts Bill Charlap Trio at the Village Vanguard

Source: All About Jazz
October 9, 2008

NPR Music and WBGO exclusively broadcasted and webcasted a performance by Bill Charlap, one of today's most celebrated pianists, and his trio from the Village Vanguard in New York City. Jazz musician Bill Charlap has a passion for interpretation. He especially delights in selecting the most attractive showtunes of yesteryear and rendering them with tactful, warmly familiar gestures. With his longtime cohorts Peter and Kenny Washington (no relation), who are both highly regarded sidemen in New York, Charlap returns to ...

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Bill Charlap on the Radio

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 9, 2008

The Bill Charlap Trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington played Wednesday night in a live broadcast on National Public Radio and Newark, New Jersey's, WBGO-FM. The program of well more than an hour consisted of one of the trio's sets at New York's Village Vanguard. Coincidentally, Charlap opened with Gigi Gryce's “Satellite" (See the next item). If you missed the broadcast, you may be glad to know that NPR archived it. You can listen to it by ...

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