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Article: Album Review

Playdate: Playdate

Read "Playdate" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 2, 2010

While children spend after school-hours and weekends working on homework and spending time with their families, they also have play dates. They get together with other like-minded friends to let loose and blow off some steam. Musicians often do the same thing and, appropriately enough, three of the five performers on Playdate have been friends since ...

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Article: Product Spotlight

North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk

by Mark Corroto
March 16, 2010

In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 1, 2010

March 9, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 250 221 +29 2 63 1 6 2 1 2 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 228 233 -5 0 54 1 8 3 7 12 Hadley Caliman Straight Ahead (Origin) 200 148 +52 5 42 ...

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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 22, 2010

March 2, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 233 247 -14 0 56 1 7 2 1 3 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 221 257 -36 4 63 1 5 3 3 8 John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 194 182 ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 15, 2010

February 23, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 2 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 257 221 +36 6 58 1 4 2 1 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 247 246 +1 1 55 1 6 3 8 7 John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 182 ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Wayne Escoffery

February 23, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Wayne Escoffery's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Wayne EscofferySince moving to New York City in 2000, tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has become one of the Jazz world’s most talented rising stars and in-demand sidemen... more Website | Videos | Articles ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Greene Quartet: Merge

Read "Merge" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 23, 2010

Chicago-native Chris Greene keeps stylistic company with Wayne Escoffery, AJ Kluth, and Ricky Sweum, in that he plays a saxophone with sharp edges when necessary and smooth ones when called upon. His previous recordings, On The Verge (as Chris Greene's New Perspective, Self Produced, 2002) and Soul and Science, Volume 1 (as the Chris Green Quartet, ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 8, 2010

February 16, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 246 224 +22 6 59 1 5 2 — — Gil Scott-Heron I’m New Here (XL) 223 — +223 35 36 2 1 3 2 22 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 221 210 +11 ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 1, 2010

February 9, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 224 189 +35 5 47 1 4 2 22 — Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 210 83 +127 25 52 2 2 3 — — Charlie Hunter Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 25, 2010

February 2, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 26 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 189 197 -8 10 55 1 3 2 45 — John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 186 60 +126 25 51 2 2 3 — — Greg Reitan Antibes (Sunnyside) 146 49 +97 26 ...