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AccuRadio Jazz Fest
AccuRadio Jazz Fest
Date Posted: August 28 2008
Written By: Chicago Jazz
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AccuRadio launches full-time radio station
featuring Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 artists
Personalizable channel features dozens of the jazz artists performing next
weekend
CHICAGO – 8/22/08 – 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 today is launching 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, decade, 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, Gerald Wilson, 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 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.
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