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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 14, 2014
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote) 300 299 +1 0 54 1 10 2 1 2 Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh) 282 307 -25 0 57 1 11 2 4 2 Catherine Russell Bring It Back (Jazz Village) 282 241 +41 0 51 2 9 4 3 4 Dave Stryker Eight Track (Strikezone) 267 256 +11 0 50 3 8 5 10 5 Javon Jackson Expression ...
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Guitarists Marty Grosz And Howard Alden This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a show devoted to pioneers of jazz guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough and Django Reinhardt. 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. Recognized by Down Beat in 2008 as one of ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 7, 2014
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh) 307 271 +36 1 52 1 10 2 1 2 George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote) 299 289 +10 0 57 1 9 3 3 3 Dave Stryker Eight Track (Strikezone) 256 254 +2 0 51 3 7 4 4 4 Catherine Russell Bring It Back (Jazz Village) 241 235 +6 2 47 4 8 5 12 5 Vincent ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Clarinet Marmalade
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers an exploration of great pre-WWII voices of jazz clarinet with the help of prominent contemporary exponents of the “old school." Evan Christopher, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern and Ken Peplowski perform with the Band and talk about their mentors and influences. 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. ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 31, 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) 289 318 -29 1 60 1 8 2 2 2 Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh) 271 273 -2 2 52 2 9 3 5 3 Dave Stryker Eight Track (Strikezone) 254 251 +3 4 51 3 6 4 4 4 Catherine Russell Bring It Back (Jazz Village) 235 252 -17 3 46 4 7 5 6 ...
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A Night At Bricktop's This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actors Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the Hot Club of San Francisco give us a musical tour of Paris in the '30s. 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. Bricktop played barkeep to the ...
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Broadcast Radio is Digital's Most Desired Partner
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OP ED by CBS Local Digital Media's President, Ezra Kucharz. Digital music services lead double lives. Just as the Roman god Janus had two faces forever looking to both the past and future, many digital music services at times are critical of their broadcast radio counterparts as emblems of the past, yet simultaneously seek the one thing that most do not have: broadcast radio promotion. Indeed, broadcast radio will remain strong in the future. The sector’s actions reinforce that there ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 24, 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) 318 348 -30 0 56 1 7 2 2 2 Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh) 273 278 -5 1 51 2 8 3 3 3 Helen Sung Anthem For A New Day (Concord) 253 264 -11 2 48 2 8 4 6 4 Catherine Russell Bring It Back (Jazz Village) 252 251 +1 2 52 4 6 ...
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