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Get Double Dizzy on Freedom Jazz Dance

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2007

5 - 7 PM Sunday WDCE 90.1 FM Listen via streamcast at www.wdce.org 804-289-UR90 Studio Listen to the latest show at www.freedomjazzdance.net

We're doublin' up on our Dizzies this Sunday on Freedom Jazz Dance---modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond---on 90.1 FM WDCE www.wdce.org, live from the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond.

This week I'll also be featuring the selections from trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Dizzy Reece, the late ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 15, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 23, 2007

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay) 286 259 +27 0 60 1 9 2 2 3 Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath (Planet Arts) 281 255 +26 0 51 2 9 3 3 3 Steve Turre Keep Searchin’ (HighNote) 271 254 +17 1 60 1 12 4 4 1 Diana Krall From This Moment On (Verve Music Group) 226 218 +8 0 51 1 18 5 ...

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My Favorite Things with Russ Neff for the Week of 01/21/07

Source: All About Jazz
January 22, 2007

This week's music on My Favorite Things, the online jazz radio show produced and hosted by Russ Neff. Estate - Francesco Cafiso - New York Lullaby In Your Own Sweet Way - McNeely/Sill/Spencer - Boneyard No Hype Blues - Deep Blue Organ Trio - Goin' To Town Suk-cha - Moacir Santos - Ouro Negro Tangerine - Red Mitchell/George Cables - Live at Port Townsend Upper Manhattan Medical Group - Mitchell/Ruff Duo - Strayhorn Love For Sale - Gerald Wilson Orchestra ...

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Jazz Bassist Christian McBride Voices Personal Essay for NPR's "All Things Considered" - Monday, January 22

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2007

Washington, D.C.; January 17, 2007 - Celebrated jazz bassist Christian McBride will voice a personal essay for the NPR series This I Believe airing on NPR's newsmagazine All Things Considered, Monday, January 22. The theme: “The value of being cool." Taught to play bass by his father and uncle, McBride learned the art of being cool from his grandfather. “I believe it pays to be cool," McBride says in the essay. “Most people in this day and age are always ...

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Internet Radio Station Fusiongroovin Re-Launches Website

Source: All About Jazz
January 18, 2007

FusionGroovin, a leading instrumental jazz-rock-funk fusion internet radio station broadcast from Live365, has re-launched its website. Changes are numerous, starting with a completely new look and feel, including the station logo, from Mark DiPalma Design in New York. Where the old home page was static, “just a place to send people to" when introducing the station, the new site's home page features a blog. The blog provides a perfect medium for announcing new music on the station, and for soliciting ...

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One Final Note (OFN) Playlist: January 8, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2007

Format: Artist “Song" Album (Label) * indicates new release or reissue

Lee Konitz "I Remember You" Motion (Verve) Shayna Dulberger "Lowed" TheKillMeTrio (self-released) * Mark Helias' Open Loose "Chavez" Atomic Clock (Radio Legs Music) Ellery Eskelin "Bebop" Forms (hatOLOGY) Joëlle Léandre "Just Now Five" At the Le Mans Jazz Festival (Leo) Trio X "David Danced: Variations on Ellington" Roulette at Location One (Cadence Jazz Records) * Yuganaut "Missing Limbs" This Musicship (Block M) * Tsahar/Cooper-Moore/Taylor "Refuge" Digital Primitives (Hopscotch) ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 8, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2007

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 7 MB3 Jazz Hits Volume 1 (Mel Bay) 259 201 +58 0 57 1 8 2 3 2 Jimmy Heath Big Band Turn Up The Heath (Planet Arts) 255 192 +63 1 49 2 8 3 3 3 Steve Turre Keep Searchin’ (HighNote) 254 192 +62 2 61 1 11 4 1 10 Diana Krall From This Moment On (Verve Music Group) 218 205 +13 0 55 1 17 ...

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"My Favorite Things" with Russ Neff for the Week of 01/14/07

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2007

This week's music on My Favorite Things, the online jazz radio show produced & hosted by Russ Neff.  Confirmation - Dizzy Gillespie - Bird Songs Like Someone In Love - Paul Desmond Quartet - Like Someone In Love Sweet & Lovely - Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall Caravan - Duke Ellington Orchestra - The Great London Concerts Star Dust - Mel Torme - Fujitsu-Concord Jazz Festival My Foolish Heart - Gene Harris Trio - Live At Otter Crest ...

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