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Jazz.FM91 Launches Internet Radio Streams

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

JAZZ.FM91 is pleased to announce the launch of three new, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, commercial-free internet radio streams dedicated to great jazz music. High Standards, devoted to classic tracks from legendary jazz vocalists: Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Molly Johnson and Diana Krall just to name a few; The Grooveyard, a channel featuring the best in contemporary jazz: Pat Metheny, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Metalwood, Joshua Redman, Sisters Euclid and many more; and, Cool Docs ...

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Radio Webcaster Pandora May Have to Pull the Plug

Source: Michael Ricci
August 19, 2008

The service says hikes in royalty fees are eating away at its revenue. Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day.

Yet the burgeoning company may be on the verge of collapse, according to its founder, and ...

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Gordo Takes over Sirius

Source: All About Jazz
August 19, 2008

Former Phish bass player Mike Gordon to take over SIRIUS' Jam_On Channel

Mike Gordon SIRIUS' Jam_ON, the channel devoted to jam band music, will welcome former Phish bass player Mike Gordon as a guest DJ on Monday, August 25 from 6:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. ET.

Gordon will personally introduce some of his favorite songs, including songs he has covered, Phish originals, as well as some never-before heard demos and jam sessions.

The special will include a phone interview with ...

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The Jazz Session Hits 100,000 Downloads!

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2008

Today, The Jazz Session hit 100,000 downloads! Thanks to everyone for supporting the show! And thank you to all these fine musicians for appearing on the show: John Abercrombie, Peter Asplund, Gene Bertoncini, Don Byron, Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Dapp Theory, Toru Dodo, John Ellis, Wayne Escoffery, Robin Eubanks, Joel Frahm, Terry Gibbs, Victor Goines, Brian Groder, Tord Gustavsen, Chico Hamilton, Mel Henderson, Francis Jacob, Christine Jensen, Saskia Laroo, Dino Losita, Donny McCaslin, Kate McGarry, Mike Melito, Midaircondo, Jason Moran, Mr. ...

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Raggy's off Limits Radio Show (#56) - Leila & Hajime Yoshizawa!

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2008

You can DOWNLOAD this show or listen to the shows ON-DEMAND via our various hosts. Add your email address here to receive the EXCLUSIVE mailout notifying you when each new show is available with tracklisting. Raggy's Off Limits Radio Show 17.08.08 (#56) - Leila & Hajime Yoshizawa! Denpun | Message Is (Denpun 7") Jet Tricks | Pieces (Legere) Marvin | Can I Get A Witness (White 7") Guynamite Feat. D.Ablo | Start Again (Mukatsuku) ...

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The Jazz Session #38: Aaron Parks

Source: All About Jazz
August 18, 2008

Jason Crane interviews pianist and composer Aaron Parks. Parks is 24 years oldand he started college 11 years ago. A child prodigy who entered the University of Washington at age 13 as a triple major in math, computer science and music, Parks quickly found that music was his true calling. Now, after a five-year stint with trumpeter Terence Blanchard, Parks has released his Blue Note debut, Invisible Cinema. The album is a tour de force of composition, imagination and performance. ...

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Jazz Lover Starts His Own Online Radio Station

Source: All About Jazz
August 14, 2008

When Tony Frank isn't working the door at The Shelter Cocktail Lounge or playing a mean trumpet at the Armitage Wine Lounge and Caf, he runs tucsonjazzradio.org, an Internet radio station dedicated to exposing local and national jazz talent to the online world. Frank, 37, has been a serious fan of jazz music since stumbling across his friend's father's vinyl collection -- with its Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck albums -- as a teen in Detroit. He first got the ...

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