… : Students at Peninsula schools learn to perform jazz music …
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- Digital jazz station on air
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… : Students at Peninsula schools learn to perform jazz music …
Free with registration – Daily Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 27, 2006
We’re not in some smoky nightclub; it’s the Phoebus High School band room a square high-ceiling room covered with a jumble of echo-dampening panels. Band leader Jim Stanley is leading the school’s jazz ensemble through a rendition of Davis’ lively bouncy “Four. ” Jazz isn’t a big segment of the music business today. But through school music programs a new generation still gets exposed to this distinctly American art form. There are jazz groups in the majority of public high schools on the Peninsula and in many middle schools as well. Here’s a sampling of what a couple of them are up to: At Phoebus High the jazz program has made its mark; two of Stanley’s students at the Hampton school got into the all-star band at last spring’s Chantilly Jazz Invitational a statewide competition for student jazz bands. “The marching band is good” at Phoebus says.
Digital jazz station on air
guardian.co.uk – Dec 27, 2006
“A lot of people will be getting digital radios for Christmas and when they turn them on and wander around they will be able to hear a station that they can’t hear on an analogue radio” said Darren Henley the station manager of both GCap’s Classic FM and the new service. Playing bebop to contemporary jazz theJazz is being cross-promoted on Classic FM. As a “sister service” to the classical music station theJazz has set itself the task of making jazz music more accessible. Not just of course for the good of music but above all to tap into new audiences and drive up advertising revenues at GCap which has been battling a difficult UK commercial radio market and falling ratings at its Capital station in London. According to radio measurement body Rajar Capital lost almost one-fifth of its audience over the past year sinking to its lowest audience and share of the London market for the second successive quarter.
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Urban Tulsa – Dec 27, 2006
It was located at 6th and Lewis and run by Bill Cunningham a one-armed guitar player and folk singer. The Rubiot was another coffee shop established in the early 60′s by Sonny Gray near 51st and Harvard. They featured jazz music and seating started out as pillows on the coffee shop’s floor before moving tables and chairs in. The Rubiot closed sometime in the ’70′s. Since then coffee shops have come and gone but they all seem to have one thing on common — it’s never just about the coffee. Although the coffee’s always good with each shop specializing in their own blend brew and specialty drinks people who frequent coffee shops do so mostly because of the music the art the open mic nights and the camaraderie. It’s hard to find a coffee house in Tulsa whose walls aren’t lined with local artists work for sale and display that isn’t hosting and open mic night or poetry slam or that isn’t providing a stage to a budding or veteran musician.