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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Blues Queens Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey

January 12, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris and singer Topsy Chapman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a tribute to Ma Rainey, her Rabbit Foot Minstrels and blues shouters of the Deep South in the 1920s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be ...

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Pat Metheny Headlines the Premier of Reeds & Deeds II

January 10, 2012

Reeds & Deeds II, the popular jazz radio program broadcast from Emerson College in Boston, premiers a 4th season this Sunday, January 15th at 6pm. The show is continuing on its great success of the past three season. From September to December 2011, Reeds & Deeds II interviewed greats such as Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Stanley ...

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The Jim Cullum Jazz Band Celebrates 50 Years

January 5, 2012

Riverwalk Jazz this week celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a concert recorded live in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall—to a bull ring in Mexico—and concert halls in ...

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Last Call Late Night Jam This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

December 29, 2011

Often at late night jam sessions, when the bartender is about to give “last call," the best jazz of the evening can be heard and savored. Those who stick around get rewarded with some of the hardest swinging, most creative music there is. It was on a night like this, at the end of the Sacramento ...

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Songs That Made the Phones Ring for 2011

December 29, 2011

In the spirit of The Masked Announcer, the ancestor Joel Dorn, ace record producer (Atlantic Records, 32Jazz, etc.) who first made his mark on the music spinning platters in Philly and subsequently released a must-have compilation titled “Songs That Made the Phones Light Up," we present our annual “Songs That Made the Phones Ring" listing for ...

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Pandora Launches Web Hub for Live Concert Series

December 29, 2011

Pandora has announced an online extension of the free, live concert series that the company debuted earlier in the month. The Pandora live concert series hub is currently sponsored by Budweiser. The Pondora live concert series launched in Portland, Ore. on December 13 with Dawes, an emerging rock band from Southern California. As the official launch ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: December 19, 2011

December 27, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 5 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 169 141 +28 0 46 1 7 2 1 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 150 232 -82 0 45 1 12 3 3 7 Pat Martino Undeniable: Live At Blues Alley (HighNote) 140 161 ...

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If You Hated Radio in 2011, then You'll Really Hate Radio in 2012...

December 24, 2011

Can't get enough of repetitive playlists and huge commercial breaks? Then there's good news: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to leave its ownership rules around terrestrial radio stations unchanged in 2012, while proposing to loosen cross-media ownership restrictions between newspapers, TV stations and radio. Which means less people owning more stuff, and lots more Maroon ...

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Wizard of Oz With Vernel Bagneris This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

December 22, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes to life as Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris portrays all the characters in a new script for radio based on the original L. Frank Baum book. Harold Arlen's songs from the 1939 movie score are heard in new jazz arrangements by John Sheridan. The program is ...

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Mickey Hart and George Lucas: The Skywalker Sessions

December 21, 2011

THE FIRST IN A NEW SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS Fresh off the road from a sold out 15 date tour, Mickey Hart fans can tune in to the first in a series of videos featuring Mickey with director/filmmaker George Lucas telling stories of their work together, the importance of sound in film, and the power of music. ...