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JAZZRADIOdc.com: Classic Jazz, Classy Blues and a touch of the contemporary too!

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2008

Dear Jazz Fans: We have been at this for almost two years and we are having a great time but little knowledge of what you like or dislike. Since this may ultimately help us in generating a larger audience and therefore more advertiser support we have decided to request some feedback. It could come in the form of praise, encouragement, suggestions, commercial advertising support or ridicule. Our first questions is whether a blog would be of interest to you? Our ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 4, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2008

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 2 Eliane Elias Something For You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans (Blue Note) 235 206 +29 14 66 1 4 2 1 4 Hendrik Meurkens Sambatropolis (Zoho Music) 201 222 -21 4 48 1 4 3 3 1 Steve Nelson Sound-Effect (HighNote) 148 172 -24 1 52 1 15 4 8 5 Jim Snidero Tippin’ (Savant) 142 137 +5 0 49 2 13 5 6 9 ...

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The Jazz Session #35: Avishai Cohen (Trumpet)

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2008

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen. (Not to be confused with bassist and composer Avishai Cohen.) Cohen is at the center of a vibrant musical scene in New York City -- full of experimentation, melding musical styles, and an appetite for adventure. More than that, Cohen is a philosopher-musician, using his compositions to explore larger societal questions. His 2007 album After The Big Rain (Anzic Records, 2007) looks at the ...

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WBGO's Upcoming JazzSet - Hugh Masekela at Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and Grammy Nominee Charles Tolliver at Detroit Int'l Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2008

For two weeks in February, NPR's weekly radio series JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater broadcasts recent performances by jazz trumpeters Hugh Masekela and Charles Tolliver, and shares their individual stories. Masekela, onstage at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, airs the week beginning February 14. The Charles Tolliver Big Band at the Detroit International Jazz Festival airs the week beginning February 21. Masekela, born in 1939 in South Africa, spent the 1960s in the United States. In 1968 his Afro-jazz-pop single “Grazin ...

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Stay Cool with Coleman on Freedom Jazz Dance

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2008

5 - 7 PM Sunday WDCE 90.1 FM Listen via streamcast at wdce.org 804-289-UR90 Studio Not Coleman Hawkins. Not Ornette Coleman. The other Coleman...George Coleman, the fluent post-bop stylist and master of the sax. Dig some tunes by this often overlooked jazz great and more this weekend on Freedom Jazz Dance--modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond--this Sunday on 90.1 FM WDCE wdce.org, live from the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond. ...

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"Women of Jazz in the Bay Area" - Tune in Tomorrow

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2008

Melanie's O'Reilly's “Jazz on the Bay" RTE Radio 1 Thursday Feb. 7th @ 1pm (PST) Week 6: “Women of Jazz in the Bay Area" To round up the current series, Celtic-Jazz singer Melanie O'Reilly takes a trip to Downtown San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland to talk to the women of jazz in the Bay Area. She hears their fascinating stories and their music and learns how women instrumentalists, vocalists, and entrepeuneurs of jazz clubs, ...

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Raggy's off Limits Radio Show (#48) - Woodland Conclave & Muhsinah!

Source: All About Jazz
February 6, 2008

Click on the link below for info on how to DOWNLOAD the show or how to listen to the shows ON-DEMAND. If you want a download of the show, you have to add your email address here offlimitsradio.com - spread the word, and tell your friends too! So, have we got LOTS of great new soul, jazz and abstract music for your ears. From Japan Cosiner to NYC Muhsinah making that Pharoah/Leon Thomas connection. Recorded in the stunning Welsh valleys, ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 28, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
February 5, 2008

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 2 Hendrik Meurkens Sambatropolis (Zoho Music) 222 166 +56 8 58 1 3 2 2 11 Eliane Elias Something For You: Eliane Elias Sings & Plays Bill Evans (Blue Note) 206 196 +10 9 54 2 3 3 1 1 Steve Nelson Sound-Effect (HighNote) 172 211 -39 0 51 1 14 4 8 3 Andy Bey Ain’t Necessarily So (12th Street Records) 147 137 +10 5 60 3 ...

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