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Web-based Radio Station Jet City Stream Exposes Thrilling New Seattle Talent, From Blues To Rock To Hip-hop

June 8, 2012

In the Emerald City, the slamming power pop and fuzz-bomb rock of Nirvana is now a faint echo of the past. It was only two decades ago when Seattle nearly ruled the world, when the technological advances of the Internet catapulted Microsoft into global dominance, when the town’s basketball and baseball teams thrust a refuse to ...

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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of '26: Soundtrack Of The Jazz Age

June 7, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman, actor/playwright Vernel Bagneris, guitarist/singer/raconteur Marty Grosz, cornetist Bob Barnard and fiddler Andy Stein join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the Class of '26: The Soundtrack of the Jazz Age. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...

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Johnny Hartman Feature Ahead Of New Book

June 4, 2012

Radio host Bill McCann will air a Johnny Hartman feature on his June 23 “Saturday Morning Edition of Jazz" show in acknowledgement of the artist's 89th birthday and an upcoming book. Heard on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York, McCann will include guests Tom Pierce and Gregg Akkerman. Piece will contribute his recollections of seeing Hartman ...

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Fats Waller Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 24, 2012

On Memorial Day Weekend 1989, Riverwalk Jazz made its national debut. This week, to celebrate over twenty years on the air, we revisit our first national broadcast, a program with piano legend Dick Hyman devoted to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller. Since that first national broadcast, Dick Hyman has joined us for so many radio shows that we ...

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Hot Club Of San Francisco On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

May 17, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, acouistic guitarist Paul Mehling and the Hot Club of San Francisco join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the great Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. ...

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WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category At NYABJ Awards

May 17, 2012

WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category at NY Association of Black Journalists Awards NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 swept the Radio Category with First Place honors in General News, Public Affairs and Arts & Entertainment at the 2012 New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 15, at The Malcolm ...

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Sidney Bechet Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 10, 2012

The largely self-taught New Orleans reedman Sidney Bechet developed one of the most distinctive solo voices in jazz. Unlike Louis Armstrong, Bechet never achieved stardom in the United States. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway’s Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and reedman Bob Wilber to explore Bechet's musical legacy. The program is distributed ...

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Sirius: The Future Belongs to Those Who Curate...

May 8, 2012

Sirius XM Radio is lucky to be alive, and their growth hasn't been cheap. But with 22.3 million subscribers, this is easily the largest music subscription service in the world. In fact, they have roughly seven times the global subscriber base of Spotify, and Sirius chairman Mel Karmazin recently claimed to have more subscribers than all ...

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Live Jazz Performance On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 5/11/12

May 8, 2012

Please tune in and join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, May 11th, 2012 With MIKE LEVINE This great music educator/composer/pianist has been a stalwart of South Florida’s Jazz scene for decades. With numerous recordings under his belt, his latest, Thinking of You (Downtimes Productions), features Mike’s signature ...

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JPortal Injects Indie D.I.Y. Bands into Live Radio

May 4, 2012

It's a problem that exists all around the world: Radio stations can only play one song at a time, and those songs tend to be the ones that a person or algorithm has already decided is worthy of airplay. We all know there's plenty of great new stuff sitting there, but it's not always easy to ...