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Beyond the Blues: The Harmonica in Jazz

May 11, 2009

Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the harmonica has long been the perfect instrument for a nation on the move. Its popularity has waxed and waned, and it's most often heard in blues music today. But every now and again, the harmonica crosses over to jazz. Hear five great blues-harmonica players who ...

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Don Wolff's "I Love Jazz" Radio Program Moving to 8:00 P.M. Fridays, Expanding to Four Hours

May 10, 2009

On Friday night, longtime St. Louis radio personality and jazz advocate Don Wolff celebrated the one-year anniversary of the move of his long-running program “I Love Jazz" to KFUO (99.1 FM). Wolff's anniversary broadcast brought some additional good news, as he announced that starting on May 30, “I Love Jazz," which for the past ...

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CBS and Last.FM Consolidate Online Radio Units

May 8, 2009

The CBS Interactive Music Group has been formed to bring together various CBS digital music assets including CBS Radio's more than 100 online audio streams, various mobile applications and Last.fm. At launch, the combined assets of the newly formed CBS Interactive Music Group reach almost 40 million unique monthly users worldwide. David Goodman who has been ...

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Sirius Subscriber Numbers Fall

May 8, 2009

NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Sirius XM Radio Inc lost more subscribers to its satellite radio service than expected in the first quarter due to weak car sales, overshadowing a rosy outlook driven by cost cuts and sending its shares sharply lower. The company, which borrowed $530 million from Liberty Media Corp earlier this year ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 27, 2009

May 6, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 191 212 -21 1 56 1 10 2 3 2 Diana Krall Quiet Nights (Verve) 189 176 +13 3 51 2 5 3 6 4 Sean Jones The Search Within (Mack Avenue) 186 156 +30 3 ...

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Surprise! Study Shows Few Indies on Radio

May 1, 2009

Artist advocacy group The Future Of Music Coalition has released a new report “Same Old Song" confirming that indie music is not getting its fair share of airplay on broadcast radio. In April 2007, the FCC found widespread payola and ordered the four largest U.S. radio groups (Clear Channel, CBS, Citadel and Entercom) to pay $12.5 ...

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Keep It Cool with Freedom Jazz Dance

May 1, 2009

Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at wdce.org Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance this Sunday for the unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove with the latest, greatest performers and ...

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New AccuJazz Internet Radio Channel Plays Only 1940's Jazz

April 30, 2009

AccuJazz Internet Radio continues its weekly roll-out of new creatively programmed streaming jazz channels with the launch of its newest customizable radio stream, “Decade: '40s." Like all of AccuJazz's channels, it is free to use and available 24 hours a day. The 1940s was a pivotal decade in the history of jazz. Swing was still king ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 20, 2009

April 29, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! (Palmetto) 212 213 -1 0 59 1 9 2 3 5 The Blue Note 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note) 184 204 -20 1 55 1 15 3 2 2 Diana Krall Quiet Nights ...

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KDHX Broadcasting Documentary Series on John Coltrane

April 28, 2009

Over the next four weeks, St. Louis community radio station KDHX (88.1 FM) will present segments of the acclaimed 2001 radio documentary “Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone" during the first hour of Josh Weinstein's program “All Soul, No Borders," which airs at 10:30 p.m. Sundays. The five-hour program produced by noted ...