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Bing & Louis: A Pocketful Of Dreams With Gary Giddins, This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong struck up a friendship in the 1920s that flourished as they worked together—for almost half a century—on stage, in movies, and on radio and TV. This week on Riverwalkl Jazz, Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 shares a look into the friendship between Bing and Louis. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows ...
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Filling The Jazz Void In Montreal Radio
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Ada Felice
Long famous for its international jazz festival, Montreal never had great jazz radio. Louche Life Radio plans to change that. Launched three months ago from a downtown studio, Louche Life internet radio airs full time worldwide via California based server Live365. Primary programming is contemporary vocal jazz, instrumental jazz with a strong narrative, and a sprinkling of Rhythm and Blues. Though music director Ada Felice wants the station to appeal to a broad audience, she aims to avoid jazz clichés. ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 5, 2014
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JazzWeek
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)306263+4355514212Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant)262263-1153173123Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)260199+6194932434David Fathead Newman & The Tilden Webb Trio Cellar Groove (Cellar Live)245249-424738585David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)239221+1834854646Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)237243-604646757Javon Jackson Expression (Smoke Sessions)216241-2514458878Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh)207222-15041114969George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote)206236-3003811310910Dave Stryker Eight Track (Strikezone)201220-19141311112811 Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)197159+38437113121312Antonio Adolfo Rio Choro Jazz (AAM Music)193191+2243126132513Regina Carter Southern Comfort ...
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Swinging At The Pearl: Catherine Russell, Dick Hyman & The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
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Don Mopsick
For this week’s Riverwalk Jazz radio show, bandleader Jim Cullum welcomes two guest artists. One is piano master and old friend Dick Hyman, a guest on our first radio show in 1989. The second is a new friend, making her Riverwalk Jazz debut in 2010—jazz singer Catherine Russell. 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. Hyman joins The ...
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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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