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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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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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