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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 12, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2007

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 4 Various Artists Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (Blue Note) 490 387 +103 5 69 1 4 2 2 3 Hendrik Meurkens New York Samba Jazz Quintet (Zoho Music) 270 299 -29 2 59 2 6 3 4 2 Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath (Planet Arts) 235 251 -16 0 50 1 13 4 6 — Matt Wilson The Scenic Route (Palmetto) 231 223 +8 6 ...

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Sirius and XM to Combine in $13 Billion Merger of Equals

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2007

Provides Consumers with Enhanced Content, Greater Choices and Accelerated Technological Innovation Enables Satellite Radio to Better Compete in Rapidly Evolving Audio Entertainment Industry Extraordinary Value Creation for Shareholders Mel Karmazin to Serve as Chief Executive Officer and Gary Parsons to Serve as Chairman of Combined Company WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Feb. 19 -- XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR) and SIRIUS Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be ...

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Manager of the Late Larry Young and Grant Green Touring Jazz Radio Stations Nationwide

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2007

To all jazz radio station Program Directors: Jay Glover the Manager of the late Larry Young and Grant Green is available to all jazz radio stations on his worldwide tour to clarify and and all misconceptions about the life and times of both of these two famous jazz musicians who for reasons known clearly to Jay Glover never received the recognition they truly deserved while here on Earth. The next interview with a jazz radio station is scheduled in mid-March ...

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My Favorite Things with Russ Neff for the Week of February 18, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2007

This week's music on My Favorite Things, the online jazz radio show produced & hosted by Russ Neff. Speak Low - Brian Bromberg - Wood My Cherie Amour - Taylor/Fidyk Big Band - Live At Blues Alley All The Things You Are - Phil Woods Quintet - American Songbook No More Blues - Roberta Gambarini - Easy To Love Busted - Ray Charles - Ray Sings Basie Swings Body & Soul - Billy Taylor Trio - Live At IAJE Jody ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 5, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2007

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 13 Various Artists Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (Blue Note) 387 223 +164 10 63 1 3 2 3 5 Hendrik Meurkens New York Samba Jazz Quintet (Zoho Music) 299 231 +68 6 62 2 5 3 1 3 MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay) 252 275 -23 3 49 1 12 4 2 1 Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath (Planet Arts) 251 234 ...

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My Favorite Things with Russ Neff for the Week of February 11, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2007

This week's music on My Favorite Things, the online jazz radio show produced & hosted by Russ Neff. Autumn Nocturne - Dave McKenna/Buddy De Franco - You Must Believe In Swing My Romance - Al Grey - Fab Let's Mosey - Geoff Stradling - Les Is Mo' Blues For Jim Hall - Joe Diorio Trio - More Than Friends Blue Monk - Kenny Barron - Peruvian Blue Blues Stride - McCoy Tyner - Infinity My Funny Valentine - Miles Davis ...

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Melt the Winter Blues Away with Freedom Jazz Dance

Source: All About Jazz
February 9, 2007

5 - 7 PM This Sunday WDCE 90.1 FM Listen via streamcast at www.wdce.org 804-289-UR90 Studio

Plug in the space heater and huddle around your computerized listening device this Sunday for Freedom Jazz Dance--- modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond---on 90.1 FM WDCE, live from the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond.

This week I'll be featuring selections from saxophonist Charles Lloyd, a cool new release from Richmond saxo-band leader Samson ...

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Jazz @ Estia Cantina Goes Live on the Radio

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2007

WLIU 88.3 FM Southampton NY, WCWP 88.1 Brookville NY and Estia Cantina, a jazz club in the Hamptons, have partnered up to bring Jazz Live from the little jazz club owned by John Beuscher in Amagansett to most of Long Island, parts of Westchester and southern CT. The Broadcasts will be on Saturday nights at 8 PM beginning in March and can also be heard on line at wliu.org. Performers so far scheduled include Jeb Patton, Lew Tabackin, Joanne Brackeen, ...

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