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Marian McPartland, 1918-2013

Blog Name:Jazz 88.3 Blog

Blog Author:San Diego's Jazz 88.3

Posted on:August 22, 2013


Jazz 88.3 has a heavy heart for losing another icon in jazz this past week - pianist Marion McPartland. NPR noted her for her individualistic voice in her compositions and the New York Times highlighted her formidable success as a jazz musician in late 1940s and 1950s as a woman, additionally also as a spokeswoman for the music. NPR honors her with some of her compositions, as featured in her longtime radio show on public radio, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz

Read full article at: Marian McPartland, 1918-2013

It's Member Monday!

Blog Name:Home Page News

Blog Author:San Diego's Jazz 88.3

Posted on:August 22, 2013

Members of Jazz 88.3 are listeners who donate to keep the station going. Have you become one yet? Join us RIGHT NOW by calling in your support at 619-388-3000. Throw a couple bucks in the hat, it’s a pretty cool hat!  

Matt Slocum Trio Live Blogged at Jazz Live San Diego 2013.8.6

Blog Name:Jazz Live

Blog Author:Vince Outlaw

Posted on:August 6, 2013

Matt Slocum and his trio (Josh Nelson piano, Dave Robaire bass) play @Jazz88 Jazz Live San Diego Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8-10 PM PT and we'll be live blogging with pictures, tweets, and more! Use the #JazzLive or #Jazz88 hashtags and we'll give you a shout out! 
More pictures, video, and links after the split

Candye Kane Live Blogged at Jazz Live San Diego 2013-7-23

Blog Name:Jazz Live

Blog Author:Vince Outlaw

Posted on:July 23, 2013

Candye Kane and her band play @Jazz88 Jazz Live San Diego Tuesday, July 23, 2013 8-10 PM PT and we'll be live blogging with pictures, tweets, and more! Use the #JazzLive or #Jazz88 hashtags and we'll give you a shout out! 
Video of the Jazz Live Interview, Pictures From The Show, Soundcheck video and more after the split...

Jazz 88 All Stars Live Blogged at Jazz Live San Diego 2013-7-9

Blog Name:Jazz Live

Blog Author:Vince Outlaw

Posted on:July 9, 2013

I'll be live blogging the Jazz 88 All-Stars Jazz Live San Diego Show, 8-10 PM PT, Tuesday, July 9, 2013. LISTEN LIVE 88.3 FM, Jazz88.org, and KSDS Smartphone Apps!
  • Barry Farrar and Scott Kyle Do The Jazz Live San Diego Interview...

Scott Joplin, Father of America's First Musical Genre

Blog Name:Johnny D's Jazz Journal

Blog Author:Deleted Contact

Posted on:June 25, 2013


LEFT: Scott Joplin, “The King of Ragtime”; RIGHT: Scott Joplin House in St. Louis, Missouri, where the composer lived from 1900 to 1903. It is preserved as a State Historic Site.
     
    The June 23, 2013 edition of Johnny D’s Jazz Journal was the third all-new installment of a show I call “A Trip to the Keys: Jazz on the Family of Keyboard Instruments.” Naturally, such a show will prominently feature the most elegant, most expressive, most dynamic of keyboard instruments, the acoustic piano, but I always look forward to digging up examples of jazz played on organ, harpsichord, celeste, clavichord, synthesizer, and accordion or bandoneon.

Roberta Donnay Live Blogged at Jazz Live San Diego 2013-6-24

Blog Name:Jazz Live

Blog Author:Vince Outlaw

Posted on:June 25, 2013

From this EmCee's perspective, the production of Jazz Live San Diego...LIVE 8-10 PM PT TONIGHT Tuesday, June 25, 2013 @Jazz88 88.3 FM San Diego http://Jazz88.org LISTEN LIVE Smartphone Apps!

Here are some shots from interview to end of the show back in the studio...hopefully self-updating for your non-refreshing viewing pleasure...



Here's where we're heading...
  • Pre-6PM - Jazz Live San Diego Crew readying the stage. Collect program. Shots. JLSD Interview Prep...
  • 6:00 PM - Jazz Live San Diego Interview recorded in Jazz 88 Master Control
  • 6:45-7:30 - JLSD Pre-Game and Prep, Upload Soundcheck Video, Interview Pictures / Video / Audio
  • 7:30-8 - Check on Artist, Shots, Audience, Pre-tune, silence then...
  • 8-10 PM PT - LIVE FROM THE SEVILLE THEATRE ON THE SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE CAMPUS, IT'S JAZZ LIVE SAN DIEGO!

In His Room: Jazz Smiles on Brian Wilson

Blog Name:Johnny D's Jazz Journal

Blog Author:Deleted Contact

Posted on:June 21, 2013

Top left: 1966, Brian Wilson producing Pet Sounds; top right: bassist Carol Kaye (seated, foreground) and musicians during Pet Sounds sessions; above: Brian Wilson today

     I didn’t plan my June 16 show to coincide with Father’s Day — it was a coincidence, and, to be honest, a somewhat uncomfortable and cruelly ironic one. I’d been working for weeks on a jazz tribute to a great songwriter, Brian Wilson, founder and creative font of the Beach Boys, who definitely was not lucky in the daddy department. I wanted it to air as close as possible to Brian’s 71st birthday on Thursday, June 20. When my wife reminded me of that June 16 was Father’s Day, I thought, “Uh-oh.”

Krupa versus Bernstein: The Jazz-Classical Throwdown

Blog Name:Johnny D's Jazz Journal

Blog Author:Deleted Contact

Posted on:May 26, 2013

 

     Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein

     As a kid with eclectic tastes growing up in a musical family, I never thought about one genre being better or more important than another, or that musical genres needed to remain segregated, that merging them amounted to sacrilege. After playing percussion in youth orchestras, drums in various rock and soul bands, and piano in a jazz trio, I was in my mid-20s before I finally assembled a band that could play the smorgasbord of music I’d been composing since age 10.

Want a Healthy Heart? Listen to This.

Blog Name:Riffs on Radio

Blog Author:Deleted Contact

Posted on:May 23, 2013

The University of Maryland Medical Center researchers had study participants choose music that  made them feel good and brought them a healthy heart sense of joy.  It turned out that listening to their selections actually  caused tissue in the inner lining of blood vessels to dilate (or expand) in order to increase blood flow. Specifically, the diameter of blood vessels grew by 26 percent when a person listened to happy music.

I’m not suggesting that you replace exercise with music to improve your heart health, but it’s still a cool factoid.  Couple that with my main man, Daniel Levitin’s research that shows that music can lift your spirits, good music is obviously good “medicine.”  

 

And you know what else is good for your circulation? Laughter!  What?  Yeah, all those jokes at the gym actually improve my workout.laughing heart

 

“We had previously demonstrated that positive emotions, such as laughter, were good for vascular health. So, a logical question was whether other emotions, such as those evoked by music, have a similar effect,” says principal investigator Michael Miller, M.D., director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine.

All this hard research simply underscores the real value to a business in aligning itself with an All-Music radio station like Jazz 88.3. You get the 'Halo Effect’ of listeners patronizing your business because they appreciate your company helping us do what we do, coupled with the fact that you are actually encouraging your customers’ cardiovascular health!  Wow, what a tremendous public service your business is doing.  

 Oh, by the way, listening to anxiety-triggering music caused the diameter of the subject's blood vessels to decrease by 6 percent. So be careful what you listen to.