Thursday, June 20, 2013

AccuJazz -- A Great Internet Streaming Radio Service

Thanks to this post at All About Jazz, I have been turned on to a marvelous jazz resource, the Internet streaming radio service AccuJazz.

AccuJazz has over 70 channels, all of which are available 24 hours per day and all of which are free. Just point your browser there, pick a channel, sit back, and listen. The channels cover just about any sub-genre of jazz that you can think of, everything from Old School to Avant Garde, with decade channels, instrument channels, and channels for specific artists included.

Two of the channels should interest readers of CoreJazz in particular. "Jazz 101" is a channel designed to educate newer jazz listeners, and "Top 50 Jazz Albums of All Time" is just what the title suggests, cuts from AccuJazz's list of the 50 best jazz albums ever.

The artists followed on this blog are well represented on the AccuJazz "Top 50 Jazz Albums of All Time" and include:
  • Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives and Sevens Recordings
  • Count Basie - Complete Atomic Basie
  • Art Blakey - Moanin'
  • Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Clifford Brown and Max Roach
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
  • Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar
  • Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
  • John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
  • John Coltrane - Blue Train
  • John Coltrane - Giant Steps
  • Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
  • Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
  • Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
  • Miles Davis - Milestones
  • Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
  • Duke Ellington - The Blanton-Webster Band
  • Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Best of the Songbooks
  • Erroll Garner - Concert By the Sea
  • Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
  • Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul
  • Billie Holiday and Lester Young - A Musical Romance
  • Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
  • Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
  • Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
  • Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
  • Thelonious Monk - Best of the Blue Note Years
  • Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
  • Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell
  • Return to Forever - Light as a Feather
  • Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
  • Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
  • Horace Silver - Song For My Father
  • Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
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