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Promotions' Weekly Music Poop
June 24, 2010
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Jazzzdog Promotions’ mascot Brak has literally been
scratching his head thinking of new ways to get ‘face
time’ in the media. Unfortunately, every time he
comes up with something he is trumped immediately by a
drunken, nearly naked Lady Gaga flipping people off at
ball parks or fallen stars saying they’ve been kidnapped
(by the guy they’ve been out partying with all night).
Outside of alien abduction, which is so Roswell, or getting
ghostly visitations from Elvis, he’s stumped. Brak
is considering a new pr firm.
Here is the music from Camp Jazzzdog....
Brad Mehldau “Highway Rider”
(Nonesuch) was at number 3 at JazzWeek and number 9 at
CMJ! Brad’s cd was just picked as one of the NPR
top five jazz cds of 2010 so far. Here are the hot cuts
for the week: “Into the City”, “Capriccio”,
“Highway Rider”, “Sky Turning Grey”
and “Always Returning”.
Trombone Shorty “Backatown”
(Verve Forecast) was at number 7 at CMJ and number 9 at
JazzzWeek this week. We hope you caught
Troy on Letterman recently! The songs you are grooving
to most are: “On Your Way Down”, “Hurricane
Season”, “Backatown”, “In the
6th” and “Neph”.
Nnenna Freelon “Homefree”
(Concord Records) was at number 12 at JazzWeek this week!
Her gigs at Ronnie Scott’s were huge successes.
She got standing ovations from sold out crowds. Here are
the hot tracks of the week: “I Feel Pretty”,
“The Lamp is Low”, “The Very Thought
of You”, “Cell Phone Blues” and “Get
Out of Town”.
Jacky Terrasson “Push” (Concord
Records) was at number 13 at CMJ and number 18 at JazzWeek!
It is hard to miss the press onslaught about the anniversary
of Michael Jackson’s death. Jacky recorded his version
of “Beat It/Body and Soul” right after he
heard the news of Jackson’s passing. It was born
of playing the song at Iridium a year ago Friday. Here’s
what y’all are playing the most this week: “Ruby
My Dear”, “Gaux Girl”, “You’d
Be So Nice to Come Home To”, “Say Yeah”
and “Beat Bop”.
Arturo Sandoval “A Time for Love”
(Concord) was at number 23 at CMJ and number 30 at JazzWeek
this week. Here’s one for your next rainy day: go
to Netflix and see if you can find the film “For
Love or Country” starring Andy Garcia as Arturo!
Here’s what people played the most: “Speak
Low”, “I Loves You Porgy”, “Emily”,
“Estate” and “All the Way”.
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Making its way at radio now:
Fabrizio Sotti “Inner Dance”
(E-1 Entertainment). Fabrizio just had a great night at
the Blue Note. Here are the cuts you were into this week:
“Kindness in your Eyes”, “Blue Whisper”,
“Inner Dance”, “Mr. T.M.” and
“Brief Talk”.
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In your hot little hands:
Lee Ritenour “6 String Theory”
(Concord Records). Lee is back with a great list of guest
artists including Joey DeFrancesco and George Benson.
The early birds love “Shape of my Heart”.
Listen, love it and share it with your listeners.
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Coming
soon:
John Dokes, John Brown, Dave Anderson, John Brown, Taylor
Eigsti, Nicholas Payton, James Torme, Kurt Elling and
more!
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Brak's Weekly Bark:
”So near and yet so what?”
~ Brak, the official Jazzzdog mascot
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