Sometimes it can seem like the jazz world is a man's, man's, man's world (as James Brown would say), but there have always been excellent female musicians creating jazz on par with that of their male counterparts. AccuJazz Internet radio celebrates the women of jazz with a new Internet radio channel released today. The new channel, simply titled "Women of Jazz," is streaming 24 hours a day and is completely free to use. The play list selects from over 700 songs from women-led recording sessions. The music is incredibly diverse, ranging from classic vocal recordings by Ella, Sarah and Billie to progressive big band jazz by Carla Bley and Maria Schneider. Modern innovators like Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Nicole Mitchell and Jenny Scheinman are all highlighted on the channel as well. AccuJazz is an all-Jazz Internet radio station with over two dozen channels. One new channel is added to the line up every week. Recent new channels include "Pre-1940 Jazz," "Composers: Monk," and "Avant-Garde Jazz." Listen now at AccuJazz.com. Sometimes it can seem like the jazz world is a man’s, man’s, man’s world (as James Brown would say), but there have always been excellent female musicians creating jazz on par with that of their male counterparts. AccuJazz Internet radio celebrates the women of jazz with a new Internet radio channel released today. The new channel, simply titled “Women of Jazz,” is streaming 24 hours a day and is completely free to use. The play list selects from over 700 songs from women-led recording sessions. The music is incredibly diverse, ranging from classic vocal recordings by Ella, Sarah and Billie to progressive big band jazz by Carla Bley and Maria Schneider. Modern innovators like Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Nicole Mitchell and Jenny Scheinman are all highlighted on the channel as well. AccuJazz is an all-Jazz Internet radio station with over two dozen channels. One new channel is added to the line up every week. Recent new channels include “Pre-1940 Jazz,” “Composers: Monk,” and “Avant-Garde Jazz.” Listen now at AccuJazz.com.

2009-03-19T21:02:23Z

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Just saw Deanna's trio in IL, good stuff! They opened with a really nice baiao. Just saw Deanna’s trio in IL, good stuff! They opened with a really nice baiao.

2009-03-19T21:01:48Z

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AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new, creatively programmed jazz channels with "Decade: Pre-1940," a radio stream exclusively playing jazz recorded before 1940. For jazz fans who don't know much about what happened before bebop, the new channel is an essential education. The play list includes a variety of early jazz styles. Freewheeling New Orleans jazz by Jelly Roll Morton, raucous big band swing by Duke Ellington, and French gypsy jazz by Django Reinhardt all have a place on the channel. The channel is the third in AccuJazz's decade category, joining channels devoted to the music of the '50s and '60s. AccuJazz will eventually roll-out five more decade channels, making individual channels available for every decade from Pre-1940 to the first decade of the 21st Century. AccuJazz is an all-Jazz Internet radio station with over two dozen channels. One new channel is added to the line up every week. Recent new channels include "Composers: Monk," "Avant-Garde Jazz," and "Straight Ahead." Listen now at AccuJazz.com. AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new, creatively programmed jazz channels with “Decade: Pre-1940,” a radio stream exclusively playing jazz recorded before 1940. For jazz fans who don’t know much about what happened before bebop, the new channel is an essential education. The play list includes a variety of early jazz styles. Freewheeling New Orleans jazz by Jelly Roll Morton, raucous big band swing by Duke Ellington, and French gypsy jazz by Django Reinhardt all have a place on the channel. The channel is the third in AccuJazz’s decade category, joining channels devoted to the music of the ‘50s and ‘60s. AccuJazz will eventually roll-out five more decade channels, making individual channels available for every decade from Pre-1940 to the first decade of the 21st Century. AccuJazz is an all-Jazz Internet radio station with over two dozen channels. One new channel is added to the line up every week. Recent new channels include “Composers: Monk,” “Avant-Garde Jazz,” and “Straight Ahead.” Listen now at AccuJazz.com.

2009-03-12T20:33:36Z

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AccuJazz.com Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels with the release of its newest customizable radio stream, “Avant-Garde Jazz." The channel is completely free to use and available 24/7. The channel plays plenty of great free jazz, from Albert Ayler to Han Bennink to David S. Ware, but casts a wide net in its inclusion of different Avant-Garde styles. Listeners will also hear music by daring composer/improvisers like Tim Berne and Ken Vandermark and Avant-Garde jazz/rock by artists from Miles Davis to Jim Black. Jazz/classical fusions by musicians like Bill Dixon and Evan Parker also fit in to the eclectic mix. Of course, the artists mentioned here are only a small sampling of the hundreds of artists represented in the programming. AccuJazz.com is a leading internet jazz radio station that recently launched a brand new Web site with two dozen channels. “Avant-Garde Jazz" is second in a weekly roll-out of new channels that will continue indefinitely. Future channels feature such eclectic themes as “Women of Jazz," “Organ Jazz," and “Regions: Chicago." All channels are customizable, with the options to “deselect" artists from the play list and pause or skip songs. AccuJazz.com Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels with the release of its newest customizable radio stream, “Avant-Garde Jazz.” The channel is completely free to use and available 24/7. The channel plays plenty of great free jazz, from Albert Ayler to Han Bennink to David S. Ware, but casts a wide net in its inclusion of different Avant-Garde styles. Listeners will also hear music by daring composer/improvisers like Tim Berne and Ken Vandermark and Avant-Garde jazz/rock by artists from Miles Davis to Jim Black. Jazz/classical fusions by musicians like Bill Dixon and Evan Parker also fit in to the eclectic mix. Of course, the artists mentioned here are only a small sampling of the hundreds of artists represented in the programming. AccuJazz.com is a leading internet jazz radio station that recently launched a brand new Web site with two dozen channels. “Avant-Garde Jazz” is second in a weekly roll-out of new channels that will continue indefinitely. Future channels feature such eclectic themes as “Women of Jazz,” “Organ Jazz,” and “Regions: Chicago.” All channels are customizable, with the options to “deselect” artists from the play list and pause or skip songs.

2009-03-02T21:23:51Z

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AccuJazz internet radio began its weekly roll-out of new creatively programmed jazz channels today with the release of "Straight Ahead," a customizable radio stream playing nothing but swinging jazz. The channel plays over 1600 songs from Dexter Gordon to Bill Charlap, and doesn't play any free jazz, fusion or ballads. Classic big band swing by Basie and Ellington plays alongside the soulful hard bop of Art Blakey, Clifford Brown and Gene Ammons. The play list also includes modern swingmasters like Benny Green, Wynton Marsalis and Joey DeFrancesco. AccuJazz.com is a leading internet jazz radio station that recently launched a brand new Web site with two dozen channels. "Straight Ahead" marks the beginning of a weekly roll-out of new channels that will continue indefinitely. Future channels include such eclectic themes as "Avant-Garde Jazz," "Organ Jazz," and "Regions: Chicago." All channels are free to use and customizable, with the options to "deselect" artists from the play list and pause or skip songs. AccuJazz internet radio began its weekly roll-out of new creatively programmed jazz channels today with the release of “Straight Ahead,” a customizable radio stream playing nothing but swinging jazz. The channel plays over 1600 songs from Dexter Gordon to Bill Charlap, and doesn’t play any free jazz, fusion or ballads. Classic big band swing by Basie and Ellington plays alongside the soulful hard bop of Art Blakey, Clifford Brown and Gene Ammons. The play list also includes modern swingmasters like Benny Green, Wynton Marsalis and Joey DeFrancesco. AccuJazz.com is a leading internet jazz radio station that recently launched a brand new Web site with two dozen channels. “Straight Ahead” marks the beginning of a weekly roll-out of new channels that will continue indefinitely. Future channels include such eclectic themes as “Avant-Garde Jazz,” “Organ Jazz,” and “Regions: Chicago.” All channels are free to use and customizable, with the options to “deselect” artists from the play list and pause or skip songs.

2009-02-16T21:05:30Z

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http://www.accujazz.com Hello Jazz.com folks, this is Lucas Gillan, programming director for Internet jazz radio station AccuJazz.com, letting you know of some exciting news: we launched a newly redesigned Web site with 12 new channels, making a total of 24. New channels include "New Releases," "Give the Drummers Some," and "Big Band." Some of our most popular channels are "Piano Jazz," "Saxophone Jazz," and "Jazz Fusion." We are also going to start launching a new channel every week starting next Tuesday. There are more listening options at AccuJazz than any other Internet jazz radio station. Please check it out. I've included the official press release below. ### AccuJazz.com, the Chicago-based Internet jazz radio station, has just launched a new Web site featuring twenty-four jazz channels catering to widely-varying tastes. Listeners can choose from specific genres focused on style, instrument, region, composer and decade. Current offerings include "Big Band," "Cutting Edge," "Regions: New Orleans," "Ellington," "50s," and AccuJazz.com's most popular channel, "Piano Jazz." Channels are further customizable, allowing listeners to "deselect" artists they do not want to hear, or to pause or skip songs. AccuJazz.com has the largest offering of jazz radio on the Internet with more than 24 stations playing over 15,000 tracks. Starting February 17, one new channel will be introduced per week for the next several weeks. Much-anticipated channels include such eclectic offerings as "Regions: Chicago," "Avant-Garde Jazz," "Organ Jazz," and "Women of Jazz." The parent company of AccuJazz.com is AccuRadio, a leading webcaster with over 300 channels in genres ranging from classic rock to Celtic music to French pop. All channels are completely free to use. Founded by radio professional Kurt Hanson, AccuRadio attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners from around the globe every month. It recently won the 2008 "People's Voice" Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuJazz.com is programmed by Lucas Gillan, a working musician and avid jazz fan. "There are a lot of different types of jazz fans out there, and I know they don't all want to hear the same mix of music that a traditional FM station plays. I want to create a place where any jazz fan can find a channel they'll always love listening to," Gillan said. ### http://www.accujazz.com <a href="http://www.accujazz.com">http://www.accujazz.com</a> Hello Jazz.com folks, this is Lucas Gillan, programming director for Internet jazz radio station AccuJazz.com, letting you know of some exciting news: we launched a newly redesigned Web site with 12 new channels, making a total of 24. New channels include “New Releases,” “Give the Drummers Some,” and “Big Band.” Some of our most popular channels are “Piano Jazz,” “Saxophone Jazz,” and “Jazz Fusion.” We are also going to start launching a new channel every week starting next Tuesday. There are more listening options at AccuJazz than any other Internet jazz radio station. Please check it out. I’ve included the official press release below. <h2>#</h2> AccuJazz.com, the Chicago-based Internet jazz radio station, has just launched a new Web site featuring twenty-four jazz channels catering to widely-varying tastes. Listeners can choose from specific genres focused on style, instrument, region, composer and decade. Current offerings include “Big Band,” “Cutting Edge,” “Regions: New Orleans,” “Ellington,” “50s,” and AccuJazz.com’s most popular channel, “Piano Jazz.” Channels are further customizable, allowing listeners to “deselect” artists they do not want to hear, or to pause or skip songs. AccuJazz.com has the largest offering of jazz radio on the Internet with more than 24 stations playing over 15,000 tracks. Starting February 17, one new channel will be introduced per week for the next several weeks. Much-anticipated channels include such eclectic offerings as “Regions: Chicago,” “Avant-Garde Jazz,” “Organ Jazz,” and “Women of Jazz.” The parent company of AccuJazz.com is AccuRadio, a leading webcaster with over 300 channels in genres ranging from classic rock to Celtic music to French pop. All channels are completely free to use. Founded by radio professional Kurt Hanson, AccuRadio attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners from around the globe every month. It recently won the 2008 “People’s Voice” Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuJazz.com is programmed by Lucas Gillan, a working musician and avid jazz fan. “There are a lot of different types of jazz fans out there, and I know they don’t all want to hear the same mix of music that a traditional FM station plays. I want to create a place where any jazz fan can find a channel they’ll always love listening to,” Gillan said. <h2>#</h2> <a href="http://www.accujazz.com">http://www.accujazz.com</a>

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Hello! This is Lucas Gillan, programming director for Internet jazz radio station AccuJazz.com, letting you know of some exciting news: we launched a newly redesigned Web site with 12 new channels, making a total of 24. New channels include "New Releases," "Give the Drummers Some," and "Big Band." Some of our most popular channels are "Piano Jazz," "Saxophone Jazz," and "Jazz Fusion." We are also going to start launching a new channel every week starting next Tuesday. There are more listening options at AccuJazz than any other Internet jazz radio station. Please check it out. I've included the official press release below. ### AccuJazz.com, the Chicago-based Internet jazz radio station, has just launched a new Web site featuring twenty-four jazz channels catering to widely-varying tastes. Listeners can choose from specific genres focused on style, instrument, region, composer and decade. Current offerings include "Big Band," "Cutting Edge," "Regions: New Orleans," "Ellington," "50s," and AccuJazz.com's most popular channel, "Piano Jazz." Channels are further customizable, allowing listeners to "deselect" artists they do not want to hear, or to pause or skip songs. AccuJazz.com has the largest offering of jazz radio on the Internet with more than 24 stations playing over 15,000 tracks. Starting February 17, one new channel will be introduced per week for the next several weeks. Much-anticipated channels include such eclectic offerings as "Regions: Chicago," "Avant-Garde Jazz," "Organ Jazz," and "Women of Jazz." The parent company of AccuJazz.com is AccuRadio, a leading webcaster with over 300 channels in genres ranging from classic rock to Celtic music to French pop. All channels are completely free to use. Founded by radio professional Kurt Hanson, AccuRadio attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners from around the globe every month. It recently won the 2008 "People's Voice" Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuJazz.com is programmed by Lucas Gillan, a working musician and avid jazz fan. "There are a lot of different types of jazz fans out there, and I know they don't all want to hear the same mix of music that a traditional FM station plays. I want to create a place where any jazz fan can find a channel they'll always love listening to," Gillan said. ### Hello! This is Lucas Gillan, programming director for Internet jazz radio station AccuJazz.com, letting you know of some exciting news: we launched a newly redesigned Web site with 12 new channels, making a total of 24. New channels include “New Releases,” “Give the Drummers Some,” and “Big Band.” Some of our most popular channels are “Piano Jazz,” “Saxophone Jazz,” and “Jazz Fusion.” We are also going to start launching a new channel every week starting next Tuesday. There are more listening options at AccuJazz than any other Internet jazz radio station. Please check it out. I’ve included the official press release below. <h2>#</h2> AccuJazz.com, the Chicago-based Internet jazz radio station, has just launched a new Web site featuring twenty-four jazz channels catering to widely-varying tastes. Listeners can choose from specific genres focused on style, instrument, region, composer and decade. Current offerings include “Big Band,” “Cutting Edge,” “Regions: New Orleans,” “Ellington,” “50s,” and AccuJazz.com’s most popular channel, “Piano Jazz.” Channels are further customizable, allowing listeners to “deselect” artists they do not want to hear, or to pause or skip songs. AccuJazz.com has the largest offering of jazz radio on the Internet with more than 24 stations playing over 15,000 tracks. Starting February 17, one new channel will be introduced per week for the next several weeks. Much-anticipated channels include such eclectic offerings as “Regions: Chicago,” “Avant-Garde Jazz,” “Organ Jazz,” and “Women of Jazz.” The parent company of AccuJazz.com is AccuRadio, a leading webcaster with over 300 channels in genres ranging from classic rock to Celtic music to French pop. All channels are completely free to use. Founded by radio professional Kurt Hanson, AccuRadio attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners from around the globe every month. It recently won the 2008 “People’s Voice” Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuJazz.com is programmed by Lucas Gillan, a working musician and avid jazz fan. “There are a lot of different types of jazz fans out there, and I know they don’t all want to hear the same mix of music that a traditional FM station plays. I want to create a place where any jazz fan can find a channel they’ll always love listening to,” Gillan said. <h2>#</h2>

2009-02-12T20:09:27Z

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Leading webcaster AccuRadio.com recently made public two brand new internet jazz radio stations: “Covering All the Bassists" and “Jazz Fusion." The two new radio streams join eleven current jazz subchannels ranging from the catch-all “All That Jazz" to “Piano Jazz," and “New School." "Covering All the Bassists" joins “Piano Jazz," “Saxophone Jazz," “Jazz Vocals" and “Guitar Jazz" as an instrument-specific channel. While the jazz bassist is often relegated to a background role, the AccuRadio channel showcases music that puts the spotlight on these under-appreciated bottom-end players. Listeners will enjoy music from bass players who double as band leaders, like Charles Mingus, Ray Brown and Dave Holland. They will also hear music from other instrumentalists who give their bassists time to shine in solo spots. "Jazz Fusion" joins “Old School," “New School," "Latin Infusion" and "West and Cool" as a genre-specific channel. The channel casts a large net into the world of jazz fusion, covering everything from early groove-jazz to jazz-rock and world fusion. Miles Davis' early avant-garde experiments with jazz-rock play alongside John McLaughlin's guitar wizardry and Medeski Martin and Wood's ultra-hip neo-jazz. AccuRadio and its jazz brand, AccuJazz, will begin rolling out over 20 new channels in the coming months, including more genre-specific, instrument-specific, and region-specific channels, as well as some other bizarre creations by the jazz programming team. Leading webcaster AccuRadio.com recently made public two brand new internet jazz radio stations: “Covering All the Bassists” and “Jazz Fusion.” The two new radio streams join eleven current jazz subchannels ranging from the catch-all “All That Jazz” to “Piano Jazz,” and “New School.” “Covering All the Bassists” joins “Piano Jazz,” “Saxophone Jazz,” “Jazz Vocals” and “Guitar Jazz” as an instrument-specific channel. While the jazz bassist is often relegated to a background role, the AccuRadio channel showcases music that puts the spotlight on these under-appreciated bottom-end players. Listeners will enjoy music from bass players who double as band leaders, like Charles Mingus, Ray Brown and Dave Holland. They will also hear music from other instrumentalists who give their bassists time to shine in solo spots. “Jazz Fusion” joins “Old School,” “New School,” “Latin Infusion” and “West and Cool” as a genre-specific channel. The channel casts a large net into the world of jazz fusion, covering everything from early groove-jazz to jazz-rock and world fusion. Miles Davis’ early avant-garde experiments with jazz-rock play alongside John McLaughlin’s guitar wizardry and Medeski Martin and Wood’s ultra-hip neo-jazz. AccuRadio and its jazz brand, AccuJazz, will begin rolling out over 20 new channels in the coming months, including more genre-specific, instrument-specific, and region-specific channels, as well as some other bizarre creations by the jazz programming team.

2008-09-29T18:38:12Z

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Leading webcaster AccuRadio.com recently made public two brand new internet jazz radio stations: “Covering All the Bassists" and “Jazz Fusion." The two new radio streams join eleven current jazz subchannels ranging from the catch-all “All That Jazz" to “Piano Jazz," and “New School." "Covering All the Bassists" joins “Piano Jazz," “Saxophone Jazz," “Jazz Vocals" and “Guitar Jazz" as an instrument-specific channel. While the jazz bassist is often relegated to a background role, the AccuRadio channel showcases music that puts the spotlight on these under-appreciated bottom-end players. Listeners will enjoy music from bass players who double as band leaders, like Charles Mingus, Ray Brown and Dave Holland. They will also hear music from other instrumentalists who give their bassists time to shine in solo spots. "Jazz Fusion" joins “Old School," “New School," "Latin Infusion" and "West and Cool" as a genre-specific channel. The channel casts a large net into the world of jazz fusion, covering everything from early groove-jazz to jazz-rock and world fusion. Miles Davis' early avant-garde experiments with jazz-rock play alongside John McLaughlin's guitar wizardry and Medeski Martin and Wood's ultra-hip neo-jazz. AccuRadio.com and its jazz brand, AccuJazz.com, will begin rolling out over 20 new channels in the coming months, including more genre-specific, instrument-specific, and region-specific channels, as well as some other bizarre creations by the jazz programming team. Leading webcaster AccuRadio.com recently made public two brand new internet jazz radio stations: “Covering All the Bassists” and “Jazz Fusion.” The two new radio streams join eleven current jazz subchannels ranging from the catch-all “All That Jazz” to “Piano Jazz,” and “New School.” “Covering All the Bassists” joins “Piano Jazz,” “Saxophone Jazz,” “Jazz Vocals” and “Guitar Jazz” as an instrument-specific channel. While the jazz bassist is often relegated to a background role, the AccuRadio channel showcases music that puts the spotlight on these under-appreciated bottom-end players. Listeners will enjoy music from bass players who double as band leaders, like Charles Mingus, Ray Brown and Dave Holland. They will also hear music from other instrumentalists who give their bassists time to shine in solo spots. “Jazz Fusion” joins “Old School,” “New School,” “Latin Infusion” and “West and Cool” as a genre-specific channel. The channel casts a large net into the world of jazz fusion, covering everything from early groove-jazz to jazz-rock and world fusion. Miles Davis’ early avant-garde experiments with jazz-rock play alongside John McLaughlin’s guitar wizardry and Medeski Martin and Wood’s ultra-hip neo-jazz. AccuRadio.com and its jazz brand, AccuJazz.com, will begin rolling out over 20 new channels in the coming months, including more genre-specific, instrument-specific, and region-specific channels, as well as some other bizarre creations by the jazz programming team.

2008-09-29T18:36:33Z

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In honor of the upcoming 30th edition of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and to help Midwestern jazz fans prepare for the event, Chicago-based multichannel Internet radio station AccuRadio has launched a 24-hour-a-day radio station devoted exclusively to the music of the jazz artists scheduled to perform at the event. AccuRadio is one of the world's leading Internet radio brands, featuring over 320 customizable channels of rock, pop, jazz, classical, Broadway, blues, Celtic, world music, and more. It attracts a global audience of hundreds of thousands of listeners per month and recently won the 2008 "People's Voice" Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuRadio's selection of jazz channels includes over a dozen "subchannels" based on style, period, and instrument, but the Chicago Jazz Festival channel will be its first built around a single event. The new jazz channel, with hundreds of songs on its playlist, will feature music by festival headliners Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Palmieri and Ornette Coleman as well as the other artists scheduled to play. The new channel reflects the local bent of the festival's program with much great music by Ari Brown, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker and others. As with all AccuRadio channels, the Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 channel will be customizable, allowing users to pause songs, skip songs, and even "deselect" the artists they don't want to hear. "If some listeners prefer their jazz more straight-ahead or more avant-garde, or more local and less big-name, then they can simply click the names of the artists they don't like and get a stream that's customized to their tastes," said AccuRadio jazz programmer Lucas Gillan, himself a local jazz musician and teacher. The city's longest-running lakefront music festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival features local, national and international performers on several stages in Grant Park. It opens Thursday night, August 28th, with Sonny Rollins performing in the Pritzker Pavillion. "We're hoping this channel will remind AccuRadio's jazz listeners from around the Midwest to come to Chicago this weekend," Gillan said. AccuRadio's Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 channel will remain available online until at least September 30th -- and even longer if there is popular demand for it, Gillan noted. AccuRadio is a free website available at www.accuradio.com. It was launched in 2004 by long-time Chicago radio professional Kurt Hanson (who is also publisher of "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter," published daily at www.kurthanson.com) and a team led by VP/Programming Paul Maloney and VP/Technology Ralph Sledge. In honor of the upcoming 30th edition of the Chicago Jazz Festival, and to help Midwestern jazz fans prepare for the event, Chicago-based multichannel Internet radio station AccuRadio has launched a 24-hour-a-day radio station devoted exclusively to the music of the jazz artists scheduled to perform at the event. AccuRadio is one of the world’s leading Internet radio brands, featuring over 320 customizable channels of rock, pop, jazz, classical, Broadway, blues, Celtic, world music, and more. It attracts a global audience of hundreds of thousands of listeners per month and recently won the 2008 “People’s Voice” Webby Award for Best Radio in the prestigious global competition. AccuRadio’s selection of jazz channels includes over a dozen “subchannels” based on style, period, and instrument, but the Chicago Jazz Festival channel will be its first built around a single event. The new jazz channel, with hundreds of songs on its playlist, will feature music by festival headliners Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Palmieri and Ornette Coleman as well as the other artists scheduled to play. The new channel reflects the local bent of the festival’s program with much great music by Ari Brown, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker and others. As with all AccuRadio channels, the Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 channel will be customizable, allowing users to pause songs, skip songs, and even “deselect” the artists they don’t want to hear. “If some listeners prefer their jazz more straight-ahead or more avant-garde, or more local and less big-name, then they can simply click the names of the artists they don’t like and get a stream that’s customized to their tastes,” said AccuRadio jazz programmer Lucas Gillan, himself a local jazz musician and teacher. The city’s longest-running lakefront music festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival features local, national and international performers on several stages in Grant Park. It opens Thursday night, August 28th, with Sonny Rollins performing in the Pritzker Pavillion. “We’re hoping this channel will remind AccuRadio’s jazz listeners from around the Midwest to come to Chicago this weekend,” Gillan said. AccuRadio’s Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 channel will remain available online until at least September 30th—and even longer if there is popular demand for it, Gillan noted. AccuRadio is a free website available at <a href="http://www.accuradio.com">www.accuradio.com</a>. It was launched in 2004 by long-time Chicago radio professional Kurt Hanson (who is also publisher of “RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter,” published daily at <a href="http://www.kurthanson.com">www.kurthanson.com</a>) and a team led by VP/Programming Paul Maloney and VP/Technology Ralph Sledge.

2008-08-27T16:37:42Z

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