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Originals by Originals This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
February 17, 2005

Stream this show right now at http://www.riverwalk.org. Improvisation is at the very heart of jazz. The jazz musician's lifelong mission is to cultivate an “improvising mind" capable of inventing new jazz melodies on the spot, by the boatload, night after night. The best jazz improvisation sounds spontaneous and playful—yet unfolds with the logic of a story. Improvisation is “composition on the fly." And when a jazz player—off the bandstand, between gigs—sits down to actually compose a tune, he makes use ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 9, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
February 15, 2005

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 6 Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird (Concord Jazz — 2216-2) 276 256 +20 4 54 1 6 2 17 — David “Fathead” Newman I Remember Brother Ray (HighNote) 264 122 +142 32 51 2 2 3 9 12 Christian Jacob Styne and Mine (WilderJazz) 225 193 +32 5 46 3 4 4 7 33 Stefano di Battista Parker’s Mood (Blue Note) 213 198 +15 7 50 4 3 ...

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Riverwalk Jazz Presents "Love, Hollywood Style: Romance & the Silver Screen"

Source: All About Jazz
February 10, 2005

Broadcast the week of 2/10/05 To stream this program right now, go to http://www.riverwalk.org This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a Valentine's Day concert of classic love songs and love scenes from the movies. The great masters of American songwriting created some of their finest works for romantic movie musicals, many of them originally staged on Broadway. Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and the very prolific Harry Warren were all major contributors to Hollywood's ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 2, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
February 8, 2005

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 3 Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot (Palmetto — PM 2105) 274 219 +55 0 49 1 12 2 6 10 Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird (Concord Jazz — 2216-2) 256 196 +60 9 52 2 5 3 1 1 Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above (HighNote) 228 223 +5 0 51 1 12 4 3 2 Eric Alexander Dead Center (HighNote — HCD 7131) 225 201 +24 0 45 1 ...

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'Traveling with The Duke: Scenes from a Legendary Life' on Riverwalk This Week

Source: All About Jazz
February 3, 2005

A childhood friend nicknamed him “Duke," and Edward Kennedy Ellington lived up to that royal title. His personal air of grace and refinement comes across in his music. The sheer volume of Duke Ellington's lifetime musical output is remarkable. Of his 2,000 compositions, he wrote hundreds of pop songs, jazz tunes, musical comedy scores for theater, and film scores for hit movies like Anatomy of a Murder. He composed three concerts of sacred music and several large-scale orchestral suites like ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 26, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
February 1, 2005

TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Steve Turre The Spirits Up Above (HighNote)223290-67052111233Doctor Lonnie Smith Too Damn Hot (Palmetto — PM 2105)219261-42048111322Eric Alexander Dead Center (HighNote — HCD 7131)201264-63044112312—David Sanborn Closer (Verve Music Group)201139+6293932555Jim Snidero Close Up (Milestone)200211-1114151361020Shelly Berg Trio Blackbird (Concord Jazz — 2216-2)196156+4063864778Orbert Davis Blue Notes (3 Sixteen)192174+1854476867Queen Latifah The Dana Owens Album (Qwest)182193-11135512928—Jay Leonhart Cool (Sons of Sound — 0022)15796+611245921044Houston Person To Etta With Love (HighNote — HCD 7127)154226-7203521211——Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme (Palmetto)15064+8614341111222—Christian Jacob Styne and Mine (WilderJazz)148106+42940122132935Caribbean Jazz Project ...

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