[JPL] Al Di Meola in the spotlight next week on XM 72-Beyond Jazz

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XM 72…BEYOND JAZZ/WEEKLY FEATURES   (16-22 July 2006) 
 This Monday, July 16th, we’ll kick off a week-long celebration of the birthday of another of the living masters of jazz as we present another edition of our special feature…MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on Beyond Jazz featuring an hour with master guitarist, composer and bandleader, AL DI MEOLA. As we prepare to celebrate his birthday on Sunday the 22nd we’ll enjoy his music from his early work with the seminal fusion super-group Return To Forever, his other collaborations and his brilliant solo work too. Plus Al will give us a look at his tremendous career in his own words. Listen for MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS every Monday at Noon Eastern/9 AM Pacific, with a replay Monday night at 11 PM Eastern/8 PM Pacific, and this week you’ll hear an hour of the music of AL DI MEOLA on Beyond Jazz.
 This week enjoy another edition of our show JAMMIN’ JAZZ…JAZZ FOR THE NEW GENERATION! hosted by Michelle Sammartino ...an hour of jamband jazz, acid jazz, brass band, swamp boogie, funk influenced, booty movin' tunes. Listen for JAMMIN’ JAZZ three times each week…Tuesday night at 9P Eastern-6P Pacific, Thursday morning at 9A/Eastern-6A Pacific, and Sunday at 7P/Eastern-4P Pacific. This week Michelle plays Derek Trucks doing a jazz classic, taps into New Orleans for Astral Project, satisfies the jam-banders with The Benevento-Russo Duo, gets your money-maker shakin' with Karl Denson and much more! 
 This Wednesday and Sunday, join us for AL DI MEOLA LIVE @ XM on LIVE @ BJ'S ! Every Wednesday night at 11 PM Eastern/8 PM Pacific and Sunday at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific you can spend an hour in the world's only imaginary modern jazz club, BJ's, for rare live performances by the biggest stars of Modern Jazz.  You'll hear music you can't hear anywhere but on XM, and this week we’ll take you to the XM Performance Theatre in Washington, DC as AL DI MEOLA and his awesome band return for another fiery performance of some of his newest work as well as classics like “Casino” “Senor Mouse” and “Egyptian Danza.” It’s AL DI MEOLA LIVE @ XM on this week’s addition of LIVE @ BJ'S!
 SPECIAL EDITION: IF IT’S FRIDAY, THIS MUST BE FUSION…McLaughin, Tony Williams & Jaco…THE TRIO OF DOOM!  Every Friday we present an exclusive Beyond Jazz feature that focuses on the moment in jazz history when the music became electric and all the mu sical influences of the world blended with jazz to create the Fusion Era. Well this week we’ll start each hour beginning at 7 AM Eastern/4 AM Pacific until midnight Eastern/9 PM Pacific with a cut from a release we’ve waited 28 years to hear…the night in March of 1979 when John McLaughin, Tony Williams and Jaco Pastorius, dubbed by Jaco “The Trio Of Doom,” blew away the audience in a one of a kind concert in Havana, Cuba. After the short concert this short-lived supergroup returned to New York to record the songs they’d played in Cuba in the studio, and you’ll hear them all on this SPECIAL EDITION of IF IT’S FRIDAY, THIS MUST BE FUSION featuring McLaughin, Tony Williams & Jaco…THE TRIO OF DOOM!  
 THE MOJA REPORT with MARK RUFFIN! This weekend Beyond Jazz presents another edition of "THE MOJA REPORT with MARK RUFFIN!” Join the newest voice on Beyond Jazz, award-winning presenter, producer and writer Mark Ruffin in our studios in Chicago as he covers the many aspects of the world of modern jazz from his perspective.  Listen twice each weekend for THE MOJA REPORT, Saturday mornings at 11 AM Eastern/8 AM Pacific, just before Words & Music begins, and Sunday nights at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific, part of the Sunday Specials. It’s "THE MOJA REPORT with MARK RUFFIN,” and on this week’s edition Mark presents a show that focuses on the vocal talents of the great Cassandra Wilson as she collaborates with artists like David Murray, Courtney Pine, Steve Turre, Kurt Elling and Lonnie Plaxico on a show Mark calls “A Little Cassandra On The Side.”
 This Saturday, July 21st, we'll present another edition of our weekly feature WORDS & MUSIC on BEYOND JAZZ that celebrates one of the greats of jazz history with a special presentation titled “HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL DI MEOLA! ” Join Russ Davis as he talks to the master guitarist, one day before his birthday, about his many incredible musical adventures over the years. You’ll hear about his breakthrough with Return to Forever, his electric and acoustic solo work and his many collaborations with the likes of Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty and more.  Interview segments followed by music will begin each hour from Noon through Midnight Eastern time (9 AM-9 PM Pacific).  It's “HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL DI MEOLA” on WORDS & MUSIC, Saturday from BEYOND JAZZ.
 Every Sunday it’s the EMAIL REPLY HOUR…from 6-7 PM Eastern/3-4 PM Pacific, Russ Davis spends an hour responding to email mes sages by playing requested songs, answering listener questions and reading listener comments that have been emailed to him at beyondjazz at xmradio.com.
 Russ Davis/XM Satellite Radio
Program Director/Beyond Jazz/33 West 60th Street/10th Floor/ New York, NY 10023
russ.davis at xmradio.com