Results for "Radio"

The Jazz Session #251: Ben Allison

March 25, 2011

Bassist Ben Allison delivers an original and exciting take on tunes by everyone from Samuel Barber to Neil Young to Thelonious Monk on his new CD, Action-Refraction (Palmetto, 2011). In this interview, Allison talks about an iPhone app that changed the sound palette on his new record; two musicians whove joined him for the first time ...

Celebrating Time Out: David Sanborn on Paul Desmond

March 24, 2011

In 2009, Dave Brubeck's musical masterpiece Time Out turned 50 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, I produced a podcast series celebrating this timeless work. Along with interviewing Dave Brubeck himself about the album, I also interviewed three additional musicians saxophonist David Sanborn, bassist Mike Richmond and drummer Bill Bruford to discuss the influential work of ...

Texas Caceres Family Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

March 24, 2011

This week Riverwalk Jazz presents a tribute to the Texas musical legacy of the Caceres family. The show is distributed nationwide in the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on Sirius/XM as well as streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Hot jazz has always found a home in San Antonio. In the 1930s, Emilio ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 14, 2011

March 22, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 2 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 274 286 -12 0 61 1 5 2 2 4 Various Artists Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series) 257 248 +9 0 56 2 6 3 3 3 Jeremy Pelt Talented ...

The Jazz Session #250: Fred Hersch

March 22, 2011

Fred Hersch is back with another solo piano recording, Alone At The Vanguard (Palmetto, 2011). In this interview, Hersch talks about finding the interior resources to play an entire week of solo piano at one of the worlds most famous jazz clubs; his new multimedia piece My Coma Dreams and the near-death saga that led to ...

The Jazz Session #249: Rob Curto

March 19, 2011

Obama Urges Congress to Save Public Radio...

March 18, 2011

As the House gets closer to voting on the fate of federal funding for public radio in the United States, the Obama Administration has weighed in. Earlier this week, the House Rules Committee agreed to send H.R. 1076 to the floor for an emergency vote. In response, following statement was just shared with Digital Music News: ...

The Traneumentary: Karrin Allyson

March 18, 2011

Grammy-nominated artist Karrin Allyson has been churning out one great recording after another great recording for many years. With each album comes a new musical theme in which she performs both as a vocalist and pianist. A few years back she paid homage to John Coltrane with the release of Ballads-Remembering John Coltrane—a set of the ...

White House to Radio Stations: "Pay to Play."

March 17, 2011

In a new White House report, IP Czar Victoria Espinel comes out in favor of radio stations paying artists when their music is played on-air. Espinel recommends “creating a right of public performance for copyright owners for sound recordings transmitted by over-the-air broadcast stations." Depending which side of the issue you stand on, this suggestion can be ...

Riverwalk Jazz Explores the Jazz/Classical Connection This Week

March 17, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band explores the frequent cross- pollination between European art music and swinging jazz. Included on the program: Dick Hyman and John Sheridan interpret Gershwin's “Prelude No.1" in a jazz treatment for two pianos. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performs a movement from an original composition for jazz ...