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Rdio Catches up with 320kbps Streaming, Joins Bob Weir's New "Artists for Quality" Initiative
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HypeBot
Music streamer Rdio has upgraded it's streaming quality to 320KpBS and joined Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead's new “Artists For Quality" initiative to improve streaming audio quality. The upgrade, which puts Rdio on par with Spotify, Beats, Deezer and most other major music streamers, highlights the increasing public debate over improving the audio experience. But it still remains to be seen just how much most consumers care about higher quality sound. Several fledgling digital music services, most notably Scandinavian music ...
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"God's Trombone" Gets 1st Broadcast-40 Years After
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S.G Provizer
As a part of Boston's Jazz Week celebration, listeners will be able to hear for the first time a concert recording of “God’s Trombones” performed 40 years ago. The composition, which features virtuoso trombonist Carl Fontana, will be broadcast on Steve Provizer's Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour on Thursday, May 1, from 5 to 6 PM on WZBC, heard locally at 90.3 FM and streaming live at WZBC.ORG. “God's Trombones" was written to help mark the second annual “Sackbut Week,” an ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 28, 2014
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant) 263 258 +5 2 53 1 6 1 3 1 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema) 263 254 +9 6 49 1 3 3 6 3 David Fathead Newman & The Tilden Webb Trio Cellar Groove (Cellar Live) 249 248 +1 2 45 3 7 4 5 4 Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP) 243 251 ...
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Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man Of Jazz This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz: photographer, author and record producer Hank O’Neal, who collaborated on Eddie Condon’s Scrapbook of Jazz talks about the Condon legacy. Eddie’s daughter Maggie Condon shares her wealth of memories. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. A fast-talking, wisecracking Midwesterner, Eddie Condon epitomized Chicago Jazz and his Greenwich Village nightclub was the heart ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 21, 2014
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote) 259 300 -41 0 45 1 11 2 10 2 Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant) 258 218 +40 3 53 2 5 3 19 3 Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema) 254 181 +73 11 50 3 2 4 4 4 Dave Stryker Eight Track (Strikezone) 253 267 -14 1 46 3 9 5 9 5 Mike ...
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Jacobs Media's Techsurvey10 Finds Radio Occupying "Both Sides of the Digital Tipping Point"
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HypeBot
Jacobs Media's latest survey of radio listeners, Techsurvey10, finds that “radio is on both sides of the tipping point." That sounds painful but, as it turns out, they're saying that many listeners are still tuning in to broadcast aka terrestrial radio via traditional sources while a growing number are listening to those stations digitally. It's one of the more interesting points of a survey which I feel could use a glossary for those of us who find radio important to ...
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Sweets Edison This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz presents Harry “Sweets" Edison in an encore presentation captured live at The Landing in San Antonio with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Edison died in 1999 at the age of 83. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Talking about his family background at The Landing in 1993, Sweets Edison said “Schultz doesn’t sound ...
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Radio's Voice Of Jazz Launches Internet Broadcasts
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104 Weeks
Palm Springs, CA ― Legendary KFI jazz radio announcer Scott Ellsworth launched scottsplacetm.org, an online weekend broadcast where he plays both the early and contemporary sounds of leading jazz artists and where listeners can soon find an extensive library of his personal interviews with the icons of the jazz world. “My very first guest interview at KFI was in 1970 with Stan Kenton and that library now contains over fifty of the greats for everyone’s listening pleasure,” commented Ellsworth whose ...
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