XM Radio Celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month Throughout April

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In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, XM radio will offer a unique programming schedule in April to pay tribute to the art form.

XM’s celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month will feature popular jazz artists of today, and honor some of the genre’s pioneers and legends. Highlights of the special lineup include a concert performance by Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, special day-long musical tributes to jazz greats and weekly broadcasts of live concert performances, among other highlights.

The “Willie Sings The Blues” concert performance with Nelson and Marsalis premieres April 6 on Real Jazz (XM 70), with encore airings on April 7 and 8.

The music of Stanley Turrentine, Billie Holiday, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Percy Heath and others can be heard on the station throughout the month.

For more information, visit: www.xmradio.com/jazzmonth



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