06/05/08
The April-May Hot Jazz Channel internet radio show is now live having been delayed by an unprecedented spam e-mail attack. Early one morning in the fourth week of April the site was crashed by the arrival of over 100,000 emails in its listener's letters area. The emails came from a so-far unidentified site which was using the Hot Jazz Channel site as a "bounce" point for "spam" advertising. Now site designer John Booth has cleared the problem enabling the latest show to be heard. Despite being off the air for several days dealing with the problem the March-April show was heard by 79,000 listeners. There are twelve new tracks in the latest show. San Antonio's Jim Cullum Band kick things off and they are followed by the Millennium Eagle Band, Billie & De De Pierce, Ken Colyer's All-Stars, the El Dorado Jazz Band with Frank "Big Boy" Goudie, George Huxley's All-Stars, Sister Rosetta Tharpe with the Chris Barber Band, the Circus Square Jazz Band, Big Bill Bissonnette's Easy Riders Band, Desbundixie, Wendell Brunious with the Dave Donohoe Band and the French Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band. CDs from which these tracks are taken are all reviewed within the editorial pages of the web site. Hot Jazz Channel radio shows are devised and presented by Brian Harvey and engineered by John Booth.