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"Chicago's Jazz Age Melting Pot" this week on Riverwalk Jazz

April 14, 2011

Recalling the heady atmosphere of the great musical “melting pot" in Jazz Age Chicago, with a script based on historical and biographical written accounts and recordings, Riverwalk Jazz this week welcomes two frequent guests from New Orleans—the Obie award-winning actor and singer Vernel Bagneris and renowned blues singer Topsy Chapman—plus pianist Shelly Berg. By the 1920s, ...

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The Traneumentary: Ashley Kahn

April 14, 2011

Writer Ashley Kahn is one of the most profound authorities when it comes to John Coltrane. He has written three well researched and enjoyable books that feature John Coltrane among others: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse! Records, Kind of Blue-The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme-The Story of ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 4, 2011

April 12, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 239 244 -5 1 59 1 8 2 2 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 231 218 +13 0 55 2 9 3 3 22 Monty Alexander ...

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The Jazz Session #256: Fay Victor

April 12, 2011

Vocalist Fay Victor explores her Trinidadian roots in the company of Other Dimensions In Music on Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011). In this interview, Victor talks about the chance meeting that led to the new CD; how she melded the calypso music of Trinidad with the experimental jazz shes known for; and the many projects with which ...

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XM Settles, Agrees to Pay Indepedent Labels $3.6m

April 12, 2011

Independent music agency Merlin and other members of the indie music community have agreed to a settlement of $3.6 million in a long-running dispute with XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer Inno recordable radio receiver. Out of court settlements had been reached with the four major record labels between 2007 and 2008. As a result of ...

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Spreaker: Artist Marketing Tool or Waste of Time?

April 12, 2011

(UPDATED) Spreaker is a free and straightforward online radio and podcast service with resources like video tutorials to make it easy to use. Set up a show, upload media files and record audio directly into a mic. You specify the sequencing and Spreaker mixes it together on their end. Sounds like a simple and effective tool ...

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Pandora Caught Transmitting Personal Info and User Location to Advertisers

April 9, 2011

(Updated) After Pandora revealed in an IPO filing that it was subpoenaed by a grand jury investigating smartphone apps, the team at Veracode decided to do a little digging and found that both Pandora's Android and iPhone apps transmitted information about a user's age, gender, location, and unique identifiers for the phone to advertisers. Pandora gathers ...

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The Jazz Session #255: Marc Miralta

April 8, 2011

Drummer Marc Miraltas most recent CD is Dreams (Fresh Sound, 2007). In this interview, recorded while Miralta was in New York to play with Alexis Cuadrado, Miralta talks about his lifelong love of jazz; how he became known for his flamenco/jazz hybrid music; and why a life as an artist was a natural choice in his ...

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Riverwalk Jazz presents William Warfield This Week

April 7, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the late theater legend William Warfield joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in an encore presentation, combining Mr. Warfield's masterful readings of Langston Hughes' poems with musical selections by Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson. The hour-long radio show is distrubuted across the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 28, 2011

April 5, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 244 289 -45 0 61 1 7 2 2 2 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 218 228 -10 0 53 2 8 3 22 — Monty Alexander Uplift ...