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Remembering Billie Holiday

July 17, 2009

Island 92 Radio and Island 92.com Introduces Weekly Jazz Show

July 16, 2009

Island 92 Radio today announced the addition of Jazzmasters, a weekly Jazz show to air Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. The show features a mixture of the best classic jazz, contemporary jazz and jazz fusion. The show will also include special features, tributes, interviews and live concerts spanning the last century and beyond. “This is an ...

B.J. Jansen Interviewed Kari Gaffney on the Jazz Life Show

July 16, 2009

B.J. Jansen interviewed Kari Gaffney, Jazz Radio PR Specialist on The Jazz Life show. This interview is Part 1 of Jansen's Jazz Industry Talks, exploring the future of the Jazz Industry behind the music. Jansen created his show, “The Jazz Life," to bring audiences to the next generation ...

Live Blues Broadcast on WLRN, Miami/FT. Lauderdale

July 16, 2009

Please join us for another studio performance on WLRNs South Florida Arts Beat Featuring Big Poppa E and the E Band Friday, July 17, 2009 at 1:00pm (Eastern U.S.) Big Poppa E has been performing his signature brand of the Blues for decades. Influenced as a teenager by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, he ...

Pandora Nails Down $35 Million in Funding

July 14, 2009

Days after securing a deal for royalty rates, Internet radio station Pandora has also locked up venture capitalist funding rumored to be in the neighborhood of $35 million. “Pandora recently closed a round of financing" with Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm, a Pandora spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail. Pandora declined to comment on ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 6, 2009

July 14, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 38 Kurt Elling Dedicated To You (Concord) 224 211 +13 4 52 1 3 2 2 9 David ‘Fathead’ Newman The Blessing (HighNote) 200 194 +6 5 57 2 4 3 5 11 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) ...

The Jazz Session #66: Miles Okazaki

July 13, 2009

Listen Guitarist and composer Miles Okazaki talks about his album Generations (Sunnyside, 2009). The album finds Okazaki mining some of the same territory from his debut record, Mirrors, but this time with a focus on in-depth exploration and group improvisation. Featuring standout work from saxophonists Miguel Zenon, David Binney, and Christof Knoche; along with vocalist Jen ...

Pandora, Other Webcasters Reach Royalty Deal

July 10, 2009

After two year of wrangling, “pure-play webcasters" (those who do not also broadcast over the air or are part of large corporations) have reached a settlement for royalty payments to SoundExchange. Online broadcasters like Pandora, AccuRadio, Digitally Imported and Radioio are all included in the agreement. On his RAIN blog, one of the chief industry negotiators, ...

Internet Radio Reaches Deal on Royalty Rates

July 10, 2009

After two years of debate, Internet radio stations have finally reached a deal with copyright holders regarding royalty rates. The price of the deal, however, will force Web radio station Pandora to limit the amount of free listening available each month, according to founder Tim Westergren. “The royalty crisis is over," Westergren said in a blog ...

Pandora Limits Users to 40 Hours Per Month

July 10, 2009

Webcasters reached a settlement with SoundExchange that saw rates rise, but not to the stratospheric levels feared. Most involved praised the agreement; Pandora among them. To help absorb the higher costs, Pandora will cap listeners at 40 a month unless they pay 99 cents to unlock the service for the remainder of the month. From their ...