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Riverwalk Jazz Salutes Clarinet Pioneer Johnny Dodds This Week

February 3, 2011

Riverwalk Jazz this week pays tribute to first-generation jazzman and clarinet pioneer Johnny Dodds. Present-day New Orleans-based clarinet star Evan Christopher joins the Jim Cullum Jazz Band to perform Dodds classics like “Dippermouth Blues," “Melancholy Blues" and “Wild Man Blues." The program is distrubuted in the US by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius and can be ...

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Saxophone Summit on Reeds and Deeds II

February 3, 2011

This Sunday's broadcast of “Reeds & Deeds II" will feature an exclusive backstage interview with the Saxophone Summit: Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart and Phil Markowitz. The Saxophone Summit will be performing in New York City at Birdland this weekend through Saturday. The segment will be broadcast during the February 6th ...

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Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook

February 3, 2011

We know Langston Hughes as a celebrated African-American author of poems, essays, stories, memoirs and more. But Hughes also wrote songs-hundreds of them. Music was at the heart of his work, with jazz and blues informing the cadences, structures, and subject matter of many of his poems. In an early essay, “The Negro Artist and the ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 24, 2011

February 1, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Russell Malone Triple Play (MAXJAZZ) 189 194 -5 0 45 1 12 2 21 — Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra Soul Of The Movement: Meditations On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Porto Franco) 179 86 +93 3 51 2 2 2 15 — Joe ...

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The Jazz Session #236: Ray Anderson

January 31, 2011

Trombonist Ray Anderson teams up with longtime friend Marty Ehrlich for the new live record, Hear You Say (Challenge Records, 2010). In this interview, Anderson talks about his friendship with Ehrlich, which goes back to their days with Anthony Braxton; how he came to have such an open musical mind; and some breaking news regarding another ...

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Euro Jazz: New jazz radio with European focus

January 30, 2011

The new “Euro Jazz" radio has just started to broadcast in Prague, Czech Republic. This online project is a part of a long awaited jazz website produced by the Czech Radio (the only public radio in the country). The Euro Jazz radio is reachable at www.eurojazz.cz or at Delicast network. Euro Jazz is a continuous 24 ...

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The Jazz Session #235: David Binney

January 27, 2011

Saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific composers on the jazz scene today. His most recent album is Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011). In this interview, Binney talks about the origin of the band on this record; the interesting story behind the CDs unusual title; and his opinion on the grant process for jazz composers. ...

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Play.FM Goes Mobile - Listen to DJ Sets Anywhere

January 27, 2011

Play.FM hosts thousands professionally produced DJ sets, giving users a dedicated place to listen to club music. The company has released apps for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7. With the apps, users can listen to top-ranked DJs from over 180 countries; access live mixes recorded in clubs, at festivals, and radio shows; and share mixes ...

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Case Study: The Branding of Viva Radio

January 27, 2011

This post is by Alison McCarthy. She's an intern at Hypebot. When describing Viva Radio as the official in-store and online music network for retail giant American Apparel, it's not difficult to conjure up an image of what the station might entail. By examining the company's advertisements, store design, personal employee style, and clothing it sells, ...

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Portrait of Little Jazz: a Centennial Tribute to Roy Eldridge

January 28, 2011

They called him “Little Jazz," but he was born David Roy Eldridge on January 30, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Roy Eldridge has often been called the link or bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. He was indeed a strong influence on Gillespie, who called him “the Messiah of our generation," and he certainly admired Armstrong, ...