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[AccuJazz]

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.

[AccuJazz]

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.

[Andy Traxel]

I like your jazz programing.

But I spend very little time listening to internet radio using a computer. Networked devices are where its at. Internet radios too.

You need to give us a way to play your stations on something like a SqueezeBox or via a service like Shoutcast or Reciva.

AOL Radio also has several nice jazz stations. I can get them via SqueezeNetwork. Also WBGO, KCSM, KPLU, Bebop Nation, KJZZ, etc..

Andy

[AccuJazz]

I believe you can listen to AccuJazz channels using FlyCast on mobile devices. Thanks for the interest!

[AccuJazz]

Hey Speakeasy folks, it's Lucas Gillan from AccuJazz.com letting you know about our newest channel, "Avant-Garde Jazz." For people with "outside" tastes, this is a godsend. All out, all the time. Official press release below.

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AccuJazz 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.

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Hello, Jazz Corner folks. It's Lucas Gillan here again with AccuJazz.com's latest new channel, an all-Monk affair. Official press release is below. Please listen and let us know what you think. If anybody wants to share their favorite Monk tunes below, that would be great!



AccuJazz Internet radio continues its weekly roll-out of new, creatively programmed jazz channels with “Composers: Monk," a radio stream exclusively playing the compositions of incomparable pianist/composer Thelonious Monk. The channel is free to use and available at all times.

Monk's otherworldly mastery of melody and harmony has not gone unrecognized. He has become one of the most recorded composers in jazz along with Duke Ellington, who also has an AccuJazz channel devoted to his music. In addition to a great deal of recordings of the composer playing his own tunes, the channel plays hundreds of other artists interpreting Monk's timeless music, from Charlie Parker to Ravi Coltrane.

While most jazz fans know Monk chestnuts like “'Round Midnight," “Straight, No Chaser," and “Blue Monk," this channel gives listeners the opportunity to expand their knowledge of Monk's compositional output. Lesser-known tunes like “Skippy," “Green Chimneys," “Bye-Ya," “Boo Boo's Birthday" all contribute to the play list. Listen now at AccuJazz.com.

[AccuJazz]

Hey JazzCorner folks, it's AccuJazz programming director Lucas here with this week's new channel, "Decade: Pre-1940." It's a part of our series of Decade channels, which now includes three ('50s, '60s and Pre-1940). We said we'd add a new channel every week, and we're really doing it! Here's the official press stuff:



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.

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[Blue]

Thank you for the information. i am listening to the station as i write. Very nice. All the channels look interesting.

[AccuJazz]

Thanks Blue! Glad you're digging it.

[AccuJazz]

Hello, Speakeasy folks. It's Lucas Gillan here, announcing the newest AccuJazz channel, "Women of Jazz." We said we'd release a new channel every week and we're stickin' to it.

This week's channel is all ladies all the time, and is streaming 24/7 at AccuJazz.com. Please reply with your favorite female jazz artists -- if we're not playing them, I'll get a hold of their CDs and make sure you are hearing them soon enough. My favorites: Carla Bley, Maria Schneider, Ella, Billie, Nicole Mitchell, Jenny Scheinman, and Mary Halvorson. Yours?

Here's the official Press Release:



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.

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[ericram]

I heard this was a huge success! I work at the Chicago Hyatt Regency and we were lucky enough to have quite a few of the jazz musicians as our guests.