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Topsy Chapman Sings Bessie Smith This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

April 5, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the story of Bessie Smith, dubbed “Empress of the Blues." Contemporary New Orleans vocalist Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to re-interpret classics of early jazz and blues first recorded by Bessie in the 1920s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM ...

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AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches New Orleans Jazz Fest Channel

April 5, 2012

The onset of warmer weather can mean only one thing: music festival season is nigh! There may be other joys that Summer brings, but for the folks at AccuJazz Internet Radio it's all about savoring great music in the great outdoors. AccuJazz has a tradition of creating channels dedicated to the jazz festivals they’re most excited ...

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Rockwired.com's All New Jazzed And Blue Podcast Presents Kate Mcgarry And Her New Cd 'girl Talk'!!!

April 1, 2012

The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with vocalist Kate McGarry regarding her latest release 'Girl Talk'. In the opening segment, McGarry discusses the inspiration behind the tracks of her new project and payign homage ...

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Jim Cullum Jazz Band, William Warfield Celebrate King Oliver This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

March 29, 2012

This week's Riverwalk Jazz broadcast is an encore presentation featuring theater legend William Warfield (at right). In a performance recorded in 1992, Mr. Warfield brings Joe King" Oliver's rich correspondence to life.. Also,The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with two long-time leaders of traditional jazz—Bay Area cornetist Leon Oakley and Chicago historian and tuba player ...

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Pandora's Choking on Advertising. and It's Getting Worse...

March 29, 2012

Internet radio keeps surging; it appeals to more people now than ever before in history. And one of the biggest beneficiaries (and drivers) of this growth has been Pandora, whose active listener base nearly doubles every year. Yet Pandora is still profitless, still boxed out of Britain, and a dog on Wall Street. So what's wrong ...

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STLJN Audio Archive: Eddie Fisher - The Promise

March 26, 2012

Today's Audio Archive post revisits a rare session from guitarist Eddie Fisher, the guitarist and East St. Louis native who's best known for the jazz/funk albums The Next One Hundred Years and The Third Cup. Fisher, who died in 2007, never really achieved major stardom, but has become something a cult figure over the past ten ...

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Rockwired.com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Features Brian Landrus of The Landrus Kaleidoscope, Kenny Love and Barbara Martin

March 25, 2012

The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com. Todays' edition is a best of retrospective featuring music and exclusive interviews with baritone saxophonist Brian Landrus of The Landrus Kaliedoscope, saxophonist Kenny Love and singer songwriter Barbara Martin. Brian Landrus is a ...

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Eddie Condon This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

March 22, 2012

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, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the ...

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Rockwired.Com's All New Jazzed and Blue Podcast Features Endangered Speeches and Their Debut CD "The City is Rough"

March 18, 2012

The weekly online radio series Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is back and is now available for download at Rockwired.com and features an exclusive interview with keyboardist Michael Hurwitz of the the 13-piece, international band Endangered Speeches regarding their mesmerizing debut CD 'The City is Rough.' In the opening segment, Hurwitz discusses the ...

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Reluctant Genius of Jazz: Artie Shaw on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

March 15, 2012

Artie Shaw was one of the top-grossing stars of the 1930s and the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." To celebrate the Shaw legacy, Riverwalk's David Holt talks with Tom Nolan, the author of a new biography, Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw. Nolan ...