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Christine Deneweth

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Staff music picks: October

“While it’s not new, the 2009 ‘BlakRoc’ album by The Black Keys is still on my iPhone playlists and has one of the highest play counts of any album I own (and I have over 20,000 songs in my music library). Hip-hop producer Damon Dash, cofounder of Roc-A-Fella Records, initiated the recording project because he wanted to work with The Keys, so he brought hip-hop artist Jim Jones into the studio to record with them.

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Josh talks to acclaimed 89.1 WEMU host, Michael Jewett, about when a passion becomes a career,  what jazz has meant for the world and what it could mean for its future.