ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MARDI GRAS?!!! "Hey...throw me something Mister!"

Russ Davis here, and this week is MARDI GRAS WEEK on MOJA Radio as we celebrate Fat Tuesday on February 21st and all week long with specials that place the MOJA Spotlight on the place we call NOLA, The Big Easy, The Crescent City, NEW ORLEANS, where it all began and still goes on strong. Plus, we’ll spotlight 7 new releases, on The All New Music Revue, and follow that with a celebration of the great artists of the South with “Southern-Fried Fusion” on Friday Fusion. Then we’ll talk to 8 MOJA Greats who’ve called New Orleans their home on Saturday’s Words & Music! Of course there’s all our funky business as usual including our weekly features This Is Acid Jazz and The Attack of the Jazzy Jambands… (Once again with a NOLA-Centric focus on each show!) Go to the website (www.mojaradio.com) and get all the details and CATCH "NOLA FEVER" THIS WEEK on MOJA Radio. Here’s a brief rundown...

Monday…Monday with the Masters featured the legendary Al Jarreau! (He’s 72 on March 12th)

Tuesday…This Is Acid Jazz & The Attack of the Jazzy (New Orleans) Jambands!

Wednesday…Live @ MOJALand (Galactic @ NOLA Jazzfest 2006!) & more Jazzy NOLA Jambands.

Thursday…The All New Music Revue (7 more brand new releases!) & more Jazzy NOLA Jambands.

Friday…If It’s Friday, This Must Be Fusion (Southern-Fried Fusion all day!)

Saturday…Words & Music (8 MOJA Greats from New Orleans talk to Russ Davis!)

Sunday…The Sunday Specials (9 AM-1 PM ET & 9 PM-1 AM ET that’s 6-10 PM Pacific)

Now you get all of this as a citizen of MOJA Nation for only 33 cents a day if you join as a monthly subscriber and about 27 cents a day if you join for a year. But, there’s a FREE side to MOJA Radio too and everyone’s invited to enjoy any of those free features found on the MOJA Radio homepage. Just look for the links to see interviews and live performance video on our MOJA Vision YouTube channel, read all about MOJA on our MOJA Radio Blog Site (I just posted a new one covering all the MOJA Grammy Winners for 2011!), and hear my weekly program JAZZ AMERICA on Voice of America as well as a 1 ½ hour sample of MOJA all by clicking on the correct link.

So read on and get all the details on what's up this week on The World's Modern Jazz Radio Channel! Spread the word!

THE TOP 20 OF 2011 on MOJA Radio!

Chick Corea, Lenny White & Stanley Clarke (backstage at a RTF IV show with MOJA Radio's Russ Davis) reached the top in 2011 on MOJA Radio with the brilliant 2-disc set FOREVER!

1. COREA, CLARKE & WHITE...FOREVER (CONCORD)

2. MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD…20 (WWW.MMW.NET)

3. CLUB D’ELF…ELECTRIC MOROCCOLAND/SO BELOW (FACE PELT)

4. JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY…RACE RIOT SUITE (KINNARA)

5. TOHPATI ETHNOMISSION…SAVE THE PLANET (MOONJUNE)

6. PLANETA IMAGINARIO…OPTICAL DELUSIONS (CUNEIFORM)

7. STEVE KHAN…PARTING SHOT (TONE CENTER)

8. TIM HAGANS…THE MOON IS WAITING (PALMETTO)

9. AL DI MEOLA…PURSUIT OF RADICAL RHAPSODY (TELARC)

10. VARIOUS ARTISTS…NEW UNIVERSE MUSIC FEST (ABSTRACT LOGIX)

11. TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON…MOSAIC (CONCORD)

12. STEVEN BERNSTEIN’S MTO…MTO PLAYS SLY (ROYAL POTATO FAMILY)

13. GARY BURTON QUARTET…COMMON GROUND (MACK AVENUE)

14. YELLOWJACKETS…TIMELINE (MACK AVENUE)

15. MATS/MORGAN BAND…LIVE (CUNEIFORM)

16. BOB BELDEN & FRIENDS…MILES ESPANOL (E ONE)

17. MEDESKI, SCOFIELD, MARTIN & WOOD…MSMW LIVE (INDIRECTO)

18. ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ…SHUT UP AND DANCE (BEE JAZZ)

19. BELA FLECK & FLECKTONES…ROCKET SCIENCE (E ONE)

20. OZ NOY…TWISTED BLUES (ABSTRACT LOGIX)

MOJA Radio…“The World’s Modern Jazz Radio Channel!”

Russ Davis

Here is a new one from MOJAN Joe Armel of Mill Valley, California, who spent the holidays in New York City. Following that are a few recent ones from MOJANs Bruce Raff (whose LSU Tigers were # 1 in College Football's regular season this year by the way) , Bill Lewis, Randy Borst and Scott Macpherson, as well as a couple of mine thrown in for good measure. Read on and enjoy!

Russ Davis here and I’m writing to give you, a member of MOJA Nation, all the info I have concerning the many ways to access the features related to listening to MOJA Radio…the main reason you joined in the first place. Please keep this document in mind so you can refer to it in the future should need to remind yourself of how to listen to MOJA Radio. As things progress, and we're talking about on almost a daily basis, I'll add to this list and should YOU discover a cool thing just write me at russ@mojaradio.com and I'll add it to this!

Now, as we all know, nothing (and I mean NOTHING) seems to be easy in cyber-world and the simplest ideas related to online radio never end up being that easy to implement and the reasons are many. There is the incompatibility issue between PC and MAC and the many programs related to each system.  Then your personal set up has much to do with whether or not you can access the full spectrum of features related to MOJA Radio listening.  One little thing in the chain can totally shut you down and we’ve all experienced that.  In this document I’ll try to point out the exact order of things in simple terms.  Some of you hot shots have already gone beyond the basics and found ways to listen that even my technical advisers never thought of, so this should all work, does work, and if you still have problems you can always write me at russ@mojaradio.com and you know I’ll do what I can to make it happen for you. I feel like we’re all here for the same reason…we love the music and most of all I want you to enjoy it to the fullest. Read on and you'll find out how to do just that!

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Russ Davis here, and please pardon me for blowing my own horn, but I wanted to tell you that I won the 2011 award as “Internet Programmer Of The Year” from the Jazz Programmers List/JazzWeek Awards. So if you are listening to MOJA Radio you’re now listening to “The Award-Winning” MOJA Radio! JazzWeek, celebrating its 10th anniversary in August 2011, is the weekly online publication dedicated to jazz and jazz radio programming. Nominees are selected by JazzWeek subscribers, including: jazz radio programmers, jazz record company executives and independent jazz radio record promoters. A million thanks to those who voted for me and I promise to do all I can to continue to deserve this honor.

Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood...the ULTIMATE Jazzy Jamband!

 There are a few sub-genres or movements that have come along that help define what MOJA (our brand of MOdern JAzz) is really all about and beginning this coming Tuesday at Noon East/9 AM West we'll give you the first of many hours celebrating the movement I call "The Jazzy Jambands!" Back in the day when rock bands like The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band took their songs on long, improvised journeys and in essence incorporated jazz elements, the stage was set for what became a major part of what we call MOJA…jambands...and especially those who set out primarily to make jazz.  If you’d like to hear some just listen five times each week to the newest feature on MOJA Radio, ATTACK OF THE JAZZY JAMBANDS! You can hear it at NOON East/9 AM West every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, plus twice on Sunday at NOON Eastern/9 AM Pacific and Midnight EAST/9 PM West as part of the Sunday Specials.  Following The Dead & The Allmans came Phish then grunge from Seattle.  At the same time American Acid Jazz artists like Karl Denson & Robert Walter started attracting the same fans. Those fans began to follow Galactic and other new artists from NOLA, Medeski, Martin & Wood, John Scofield and the great artists of the North West like Skerik, and San Francisco-area groove artists like Charlie Hunter & Will Bernard and so many more! It’s jazz mixed with prog rock and punk, funk and groove, heavy metal and alternative rock. The fans of this music don’t need lyrics, they need the groove and you’ll get it all if you join us for ATTACK OF THE JAZZY JAMBANDS five times each week on MOJA Radio!

2012 MOJA Grammy WINNERS!

Here is a list of MOJA's nominees in jazz-related categories for the 54th Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.

Read on and you'll see them all!

The WINNERS are underlined.

In the Mid-1980’s when fusion had faded and the softer side of things began to permeate the radio with the emergence of contemporary jazz, a fun, up and funky trend sprang out of the clubs and concert halls of England that brought new life to jazz.  If you’d like to hear some just listen four times each week to the newest feature on MOJA Radio, THIS IS ACID JAZZ! You can hear it twice every Tuesday at 9 AM and again at 9 PM EST and twice on Sunday’s at 9 AM & 9 PM EST as part of the Sunday Specials.  The phrase Acid Jazz came from the famous English DJ Gilles Peterson and each week you’ll hear not only the music of the English groups he discovered, but artists from the USA and around the world that joined in on a movement whose repercussions still reverberate today, and the words of Mr. Peterson himself! So if you can’t get enough of that funky stuff come and get it on THIS IS ACID JAZZ four times each week on MOJA Radio!

Here I am backstage with the guys in the winter of 2010 before their show at the Times Square venue the Nokia Theatre. Visit their website (www.mmw.net) to check out their latest news and other events, while you listen to MOJA Radio to hear TONS of MMW music...as always! Read below and you'll see how you can own their download-only release "20" which you've been hearing on MOJA Radio all year long!

Russ Davis