Results for "Radio"

Riverwalk Jazz Archive Finds Permanent Home at Stanford University Libraries

September 9, 2011

Stanford's Celebrated Archive of Recorded Sound to provide continuous stream of Jim Cullum's radio programs beginning 2013. “Fans will be able to view an extensive collection of Riverwalk Jazz ephemera like, posters, photos, behind the scenes broadcast elements and artist correspondence at the Library and listen to the entire collection online beginning 2013 and for generations ...

The Jazz Session #307: Marco Cappelli

September 8, 2011

Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli's new DVD is In The Shadow Of No Towers, a multimedia project exploring September 11 and its aftermath. The project features an animated graphic novel by artist Art Spiegelman (Maus) and narration by actor John Turturro. In this interview, Cappelli talks about how this remarkable project came to exist; the interesting history ...

New Orleans Clarinet with Evan Christopher This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

September 8, 2011

This week, Riverwalk Jazz spotlights the rich legacy of jazz clarinet players from the Crescent City. The sound of New Orleans jazz is unique. The distinctive New Orleans clarinet sound blends with cornet, trombone, drums, bass, banjo and piano in polyphonic New Orleans-style jazz bands, just as filé spice binds ingredients together in a gumbo stew. ...

Stanford Libraries acquire Jim Cullum's "Riverwalk Jazz" archives

September 8, 2011

BY CYNTHIA HAVEN Now and then, a great jazz performer or band makes a splash on the American musical landscape, keeping the nation's indigenous musical genre alive and popping. But a few maestros have gone light years beyond that, building over decades to create jazz empires. Jim Cullum, musician and radio host, is one of them. ...

The Echo Nest to Help Power Clear Channel's Pandora-Like iHeartRadio

September 7, 2011

In what may be the music intelligence platform biggest deal to date, The Echo Nest today announced an agreement with Clear Channel Radio to help power their iHeartRadio digital music platform.  Some in the industry believe that iHeartRadio—which allows listeners to build custom radio stations—is the biggest threat yet to slow or even reverse Pandora's meteoric ...

Fiery, New Latin Jazz Band Debuts On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat

September 7, 2011

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, September 9th, 2011 1:00pm Eastern Featuring WORLD MUSIC 5 Formed in 2002, Negroni's Trio, led by pianist Jose with his son, Nomar, on drums (who studied at the Berklee College of Music) has burned ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 29, 2011

September 6, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 27 Giacomo Gates Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant) 220 240 -20 1 59 1 3 2 3 6 Deep Blue Organ Trio Wonderful! (Origin) 197 187 +10 0 54 2 4 3 7 — Larry Vuckovich Somethin' Special (Tetrachord) ...

The Jazz Session #306: Gilad Hekselman

September 1, 2011

This Week on Riverwalk Jazz: Fats Waller, Composer

September 1, 2011

Riverwalk Jazz this week focuses on Fats Waller the composer. Fats wrote over 500 compositions in his short twenty-year career. His friend, the lyricist Andy Razaf said that “music poured out of Fats like water." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 22, 2011

August 30, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 27 — Giacomo Gates Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant) 240 84 +156 3 62 1 2 2 12 2 Jay Ashby & Steve Davis Mistaken Identity (MCG Jazz) 201 131 +70 0 57 2 6 3 6 25 Deep Blue ...