[Dixielandjazz] More on Pandora and yet another site

[Craig I. Johnson]

I tried pandora - typed in George Lewis, no dice. But then,
I tried Bix Beiderbecke, got "Miss. Mud" and then up came Ralph Sutton
with a group playing "Clarinet Marmalade"  -- hey neat!! thanks man!
Then  it segued to Peewee Russell and "Sunday".and while I'm writing this:
King Oliver with "Jelly Roll" playing a duet on "King Porter Stomp"
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Another site I forgot to mention is parlorsongs.com
not really jazz, but a good place to find old tunes.
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I've got bunch of midi sites too that I find really useful, like
our own John Farrell's http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
 and "Perfessor" Bill Edwards www.perfessorbill.com/sources.htm
-- that site will lead you to others.

Again Thanks for Pandora (listening to Bix & "Tiger Rag'" now)
Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <jdrobertson at att.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:39 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Pandora


> My sister just sent me a link to an online radio music service called
> Pandora.  She forwarded a "station" from her friend called Glenn Miller,
> which is obviously '40's big band.  I decided to try it and created an
> account (yeah I probably contributed to some spammers list I wasn't on
> already).  The way it works, you submit a song or artist you want to
> hear, so I started off with Louis, and it played a fairly late Louis and
> All Stars recording.  So I gave it a tougher test and requested Lu
> Watters.  Bang. up came Big Bear Stomp, All Right!!.  Then it followed
> with Bix's Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down.  Then came a loud and fast
> Al Hirt number I didn't like, but there is a feedback button where you
> give the current selection a thumbs up or down.  I gave Al the thumbs
> down and it immediately moved on to Jelly Roll Morton.  It went on with
> more Louis, then Pee Wee Russel then more Bix, Johnny Dodds and King
Oliver.
>
> The service is free if you don't mind some advertisements, so far it's
> been Apple itunes music store.  There is an option to download the tunes
> playing for a fee as well.  There is also an option to subscribe for
> something like $26 a year and the ads go away.
>
> You can create as many "stations" as you want.  I created a Bluegrass
> station starting out with Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs.  Also my own
> "Glenn Miller" type station with Ellington, Basie et al. For my long
> suffering wife I created a Henry Mancini station.
>
> I suspect the dixieland station will probably start repeating artists if
> not tunes, but it is always a surprise what's coming next.  I  heard a
> tune by Dr. Michael White who I heard of because of  Katrina publicity,
> but had never heard.  Was a good tune, I might even buy it.
>
> For anyone interested, the link is:
> http://www.pandora.com
>
> Don Robertson
> Napa, CA
>
>
>
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