Results for "Radio"

AccuJazz Internet Radio Launches All-'90s Jazz Channel

August 20, 2009

AccuJazz Internet radio continues its periodic roll-out of decade-based jazz channels with the launch of “Decade: '90s," a free, easy-to-use streaming jazz channel playing the best jazz from the 1990s. The '90s were a time of incredible diversity in the jazz world. It's impossible to tether the decade's jazz activity to any single style, concept, or ...

The Jazz Session #73: Bill Anschell and Brent Jensen

August 20, 2009

B.J. Jansen Pays Tribute to Les Paul on the Jazz Life

August 20, 2009

Les Paul is remembered by B.J. Jansen on his Jazz Life Show. B.J. Jansen pays tribute to Jazz Guitar Legend Les Paul with an interview he did less than a year ago with Les. Jansen Remembers: “Speaking with Les Paul... was so down-to-earth and comfortable... like talking to ...

Nora McCarthy NY Jazz Vocalist Joins UK Jazz Radio

August 18, 2009

UK Jazz Radio has announced that Nora McCarthy, an important force in the advanced New York jazz vocal scene, has joined the Presenter team at the 24 hour jazz radio station. Nora McCarthy is a highly original singer, lyricist, composer, poet and educator. She and her various groups work at the top jazz venues in New ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 10, 2009

August 18, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 4 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 261 290 -29 12 63 1 3 2 3 1 Joe Locke & David Hazeltine Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine) 206 195 +11 1 53 1 8 3 2 5 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind ...

The Jazz Session #72: Gene Ludwig

August 17, 2009

Listen Gene Ludwig tossed a coin to decide whether to be an engineer or a musician. With that out of the way, Ludwig came on the scene in the late 1950s and has made a living playing the organ ever since. Hes been in the bands of Sonny Stitt and Arthur Prysock, and has played opposite ...

Board of Directors to Debate KFUO Sale This Week

August 17, 2009

"The board of directors of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod will debate selling radio station KFUO-FM when it meets this week, with the fate of classical music broadcasting in St. Louis hanging in the balance," begins the story by Sarah Bryan Miller in this Sunday's edition of the Post-Dispatch. “The leading candidate to buy KFUO ...

FCC Seeks Comments on musicFIRST Petition

August 16, 2009

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on the petition filed by the musicFIRST Coalition. The petition details how radio stations across the country refuse to air musicFIRST ads, threaten artists who support the effort to create a fair performance right on radio and continue to run misleading ads produced by the National Association of Broadcasters ...

Very Early: Bill Evans 1956-58

August 16, 2009

In the mid-1950s pianist Bill Evans was still a relative unknown, not yet the jazz-piano giant he’d become on the strength of recordings like Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Conversations With Myself. Evans had a strong influence on post-1960s jazz pianists—an influence some have found fault with, for certainly Evans had what’s been called a ...

Win a Meet-and-Greet with Marcus and E.J. Strickland!

August 15, 2009

Want to meet Marcus and E.J. Strickland and see some great music? For every $5 you donate to help The Jazz Session host Jason Crane fight cancer, you’ll receive a raffle ticket for a special drawing to win tickets the Strickland’s CD release party at Joe’s Pub in NYC on Friday, August 21. All donations must ...