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Weather Channel Storms Jazz Charts
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All About Jazz
Source: Real Time Forecast Calls for Confusion With a Sixty-Five Percent Chance of “Why?" To be honest, we rarely venture away from the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. The singles charts are littered with decade-old Nine Inch Nails releases, while the ringtones chart still strikes us as kinda silly. Today, however, we discovered that the strangest chart is clearly Contemporary Jazz, as The Weather Channel Presents Smooth Jazz is now riding number two there. To answer your first question, the ...
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Award-Winning Jazz Documentary Opens in NYC December 7, 2007
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
"Magnificent and moving. Elegantly judged...the entire work is sculpted with great, personal care." - Robert Koehler, VARIETY Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee called him a great talent. He toured with Charlie Parke and Lionel Hampton. He was the first vocalist to record with Charles Mingus on the Debut label ("Paris in Blues"). He was the first singer ever to record what would become the jazz anthem, “'Round Midnight." Songwriter Hoagy Carmichael considered Jackie's version of “Skylark" to be ...
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Landmark Rock Doc Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back Debuts on iTunes
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All About Jazz
"One of the most influential rock films ever made." -- Time Out New York ON NOVEMBER 20, THE MOST SEMINAL ROCK DOC OF ALL TIME WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON iTUNES Bob Dylan: DONT LOOK BACK See the Musical Icon in a Classic Rolling Stone Calls “One of the Ten Greatest Rock Films of All Time" Available for Download on the iTunes Store for $9.99 Before the Dylan Bio Pic I'm Not There Opens in ...
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Legends: Ella Fitzgerald Featured on BBC4, Friday 16th November 2007
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All About Jazz
TX 9pm, Friday 16th November 2007 on BBC4 Celebrating the life and work of iconic jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most popular artists of the 20th Century. The programme looks at Fitzgerald's 50-year career from her winning turn at the Harlem Apollo's Amatuer Night, aged 17, in 1934 through her rise as the definitive exponent of scat singing, her celebrated Songbook albums and triumphant stage career which continued almost up until Fitzgerald's death from diabetes in 1996. Mixing ...
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The Weather Channel's "Smooth Jazz" Strikes Chord with Viewers
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All About Jazz
Every day, millions of U.S. television viewers tune into the Weather Channel to get their latest forecast. But, as VOA's Doug Levine tells us, weather may not be the only reason people are watching. Neither snow nor rain nor heat have dampened the spirits of a growing number of Weather Channel viewers who are tuning into its local weather segments for the background music as well as the forecasts. It may sound like a smooth jazz radio station, but the ...
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Billy Crystal PBS Special
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All About Jazz
This is a reminder that the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize honoring Billy Crystal will air on PBS Monday, November 12 at 9 PM (tonight!). Our band (David Berger & the Sultans of Swing) performed as the house band. This may be the swingingest awards show in decades--and also one of the funniest. Performing with us, besides Billy Crystal, were Robin Williams, Whoopie Goldberg, Danny DeVito, Rob Reiner, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Lovitz, Martin Short, Bob Costas, Barbara Walters and Robert ...
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Grupo Fantasma's Austin City Limits Airdate Set for Nov. 17th 2007!
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Learning Secrets
As Grupo Fantasma prepares for a busy fall packed with festival and club dates, the Latin collective received the exciting news confirming the airdate for their appearance on Season 33 of Austin City Limits, America's longest running televised concert series. “Every season, the show seems to keep reaching new heights," said Terry Lickona, longtime producer for ACL. “The talent line-up so far for Season 33 speaks volumes about the series' lasting appeal and integrity, and the fact that we're able ...
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"My Name is Albert Ayler" at Anthology Film Archives
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All About Jazz
U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER Directed by Kasper Collin November 8 - 14
“One of the most starkly beautiful and moving documentaries ever made about a jazz musician." --Jazz Times (USA)
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER (Sweden, 2005, 79 min) Anthology is pleased to present MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER, a new documentary about the prophetic free jazz saxophonist Ayler, who today is seen as one of the ...
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