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The Bebop Channel To Begin Airing On Spectrum New York In 2020
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Gregory Charles Royal
The BeBop Channel (beboptv.com), the multicultural multi-platform streaming network from Harlem, is set to begin airing its programming by early 2020 to certain New York City cable households over Spectrum. The BeBop Channel will air in the north Manhattan region from the Upper West Side extending into the Bronx. Channel executives, which are currently developing a seven channel streaming format to accommodate BeBop’s" growing and racially inclusive Harlem content for jazz, lifestyle, comedy, teen, culture, competition/game shows, festivals, theatricals, “Top ...
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Billy Cobham's Spectrum 40 Spring USA Tour And CD Release, Spectrum 40 Live
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Nancy Balik
JAZZ FUSION VIRTUOSO BILLY COBHAM ANNOUNCES SPRING 2015 TOUR OF SPECTRUM 40 SHOW AND RELEASE OF LIVE CD World-class jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham announces his Spring 2015 USA Spectrum 40 Tour, in conjunction with the release of the double CD recording, Spectrum 40 Live. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Cobham’s breakthrough album, Spectrum—widely regarded as one of the genre’s most influential works— the upcoming performance series and CD set feature Cobham’s explosive, complex style of play supported by the ...
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Guitarist Matt Panayides - "Conduits" CD Release Concert - Feb. 19 - Spectrum (NYC)
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Date: February 19 at 7pm Place: Spectrum 121 Ludlow St. New York, NYC Admission: $15 / $10 students Phone: 212-528-1656 Conduits is guitarist Matt Panayides' second album as a leader. The album (on the Pacific Coast Jazz label) was recorded live at Bunker Studios in June of 2013 with saxophonist Rich Perry, bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Mark Ferber. The album was funded through the successful completion of a Kickstarter campaign. The ...
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Dafna Naphtali, Michael Gregory, Jen Baker and Ras Moshe at Spectrum in NYC on January 3
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Michael Gregory
Spectrum January 3, 2013 at 7:00pm 121 Ludlow St. New York, NY, 10002 Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity, Circle, Triangle and Square” The opening “Clarity” begins with terse acoustic guitar arpeggios, keening flute and tenor, and then moves through an evenly-spaced upward tone row, following along a path outlined by Smith’s concept of rhythm units. The shock — at least to those solely weaned on improvised music — comes when Gregory spins out a delicate, ...
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Spectrum Road: Jack Bruce, Cindy Blackman Santana, Vernon Reid & John Medeski
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Calabro Music
Spectrum Road is a groundbreaking collaboration between four giants of modern music: Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana. Born from a shared passion for the music of legendary drummer Tony Williams, the band will release their self-titled debut album on June 5 through Palmetto Records. Later that week, Spectrum Road celebrates its arrival with a highly anticipated performance at Bonnaroo on June 9, which also serves as the first show of a US summer tour. Complete ...
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Announcing the 40th Annual Stanford Jazz Festival, June 24-August 6: 36 Events That Span the Jazz Spectrum
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Providing an intimate interaction of jazz and community found nowhere else, the Stanford Jazz Festival is pleased to announce the lineup of its 40th season. Commencing on June 24 with Grammy-winning, New Orleans-based living legend Allen Toussaint, presenting rare appearances by the great Brazilian songwriter and singer Milton Nascimento, and winding up in August with an all-star week that includes Joe Lovano and the Bad Plus, the Festival will present upwards of 100 of the world's greatest jazz artists in ...
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Spectrum Road | Oakland | Review
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JamBase
By : Eric Podolsky Spectrum Road :: 02.03.11 :: Yoshi's :: Oakland, CA Upon reading the announcement of this supergroup's seemingly out-of-nowhere formation and mini-tour of small jazz clubs, it was easy to do a double (or triple)-take at the heavyweight lineup. Lenny Kravitz's drummer, Cindy Blackman-Santana, is playing with John Medeski and Vernon Reid?! What? Holy shit, Jack Bruce, too?! What is this? United from all over the spectrum (no pun intended) by an admiration for the late great ...
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FCC Broadcasters Guard Their Spectrum
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Michael Ricci
An offer TV station owners can't refuse? Broadcasters fear that an FCC plan for them to give up some of their rights to the public airwaves would cost them future revenue.
For decades, owning television stations, with their fat profit margins, was a license to print money. But the growth of cable and now broadband has lured away TV viewers and made stations less profitable. Finding new sources of revenue is crucial, and broadcasters are counting on -- and jealously ...
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Pearl Jam | 10.31.09 | Philly Spectrum
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JamBase
Pearl Jam :: 10.31.09 :: Wachovia Spectrum :: Philadelphia, PA
Pearl Jam celebrated Halloween by performing the final show ever at the legendary Philadelphia Spectrum. Completed in 1967, the Spectrum was home to both the 76ers and Flyers and also housed a plethora of rock concerts. The Grateful Dead played 53 shows there (the most of any band), The Doors, The Who, Pink Floyd, Genesis, KISS, Aerosmith, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix and scores of others all played the hallowed ...
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Wireless Industry to FCC: Show Us the Spectrum
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All About Jazz
The nations wireless carriers have an answer to the nations broadband challenge and the growing interest by federal regulators in how wireless companies run their networks: Give us more of the airwaves so we can do our job.
In a filing Tuesday to the FCC, the wireless industry asked the agency to free up and auction off more spectrum, citing the growing popularity of smartphones and wireless cards essentially endorsing the view of even its harshest critics that that there ...
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