organissimo #6 on the CMJ Jazz charts!

[Jim Alfredson]

Wow. We moved up from #12 to #6 this week on the CMJ Jazz Top-40 chart this week. We stayed at #25 on the JazzWeek charts. That's pretty frickin' cool!

Our radio/print promoter, Mitchell Feldman, made a great point:

Look at the CDs around "This Is The Place" -- all on MAJOR multinational labels or major independents - or minor independents.  But don't see many artist produced, artist owned label CDs in the Top-40, certainly not in the top12...

We should all be very proud of our achievement to date.

I am very proud! I never thought we'd have this kind of success with this record. It is helping to open up some new avenues for us gig-wise that we didn't have before. I want to thank all of you for your support, and especially our members that are in radio (you know who you are!) that are playing the disc! Thank you, thank you, thank you! When we get to your neck of the woods, we owe y'all a beer!

Onward and upward! Time to break the top 10 on JazzWeek!!!

[Jim Alfredson]

For what it's worth, here are the folks in the Top 10 on CMJ:

1 Garage A Trois - Outre Mer - Telarc

2 Bill Frisell - East/West - Nonesuch

3 Greg Osby - Channel Three - Blue Note

4 Sonny Rollins - Without A Song (The 9/11 Concert) - Milestone

5 Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X: 20th Anniversary - Nonesuch

6 organissimo - This Is The Place - Big O

7 Mulgrew Miller - Live At Yoshi's, Vol. 2 - Max Jazz

8 Mingus Big Band - I Am Three - Sunny Side

9 Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake - Verve Forecast

10 Bill Charlap - Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul - Blue Note

Mighty fine company!

[Joe G]

Somebody pinch me!

[GA Russell]

So good it's hard to believe!

Is CDBaby the only place to buy the CD? What if someone listening wants to buy it?

[.:.impossible]

That is great guys. Congratulations! I need to get my ass in gear and order this disc!

[Soul Stream]

Hey Congrats! That's quite an achievement for a self-produced effort. No doubt about that. Great job guys!

[GregN]

So good it's hard to believe!

Is CDBaby the only place to buy the CD?  What if someone listening wants to buy it?

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It is also available at Tower.

And will be available at many other retailers in a few weeks or so (Including Amazon.com). So, distribution is just around the corner. We are new at this, and we are learning fast. It is also possible to send a check or money order to us to get one.

Greg

Big O Records

and artist mgt

[GregN]

Somebody pinch me!

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Seven months ago, I told you this day would come. Well, maybe not this day...but a day kind of like it!

We need to throw a party me thinks.

A big lavish (tax deductible party) at Denny's.

[Big Deal]

When we get to your neck of the woods, we owe y'all a beer!

See ya Friday Jim

[Jim Alfredson]

Don,

I will definitely buy you a beer, my friend. Greg, Denny's is great but what about splurging and going to Bob Evans? If it's good enough for the Hatch's 50th Wedding Anniversary, it's good enough for us.

<sorry folks, inside joke>

[wesbed]

Somebody pinch me!

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Damn. Pinch me too.

Oh, puleeeze pinch me.

You're in good company, Organissimo.

[GA Russell]

By the way, what is the CMJ jazz chart?

[Jim Alfredson]

College Music Journal. It tracks airplay on the college stations.

We're #25 on JazzWeek right now, which tracks all jazz airplay around the country including the cable networks (like Comcast, which we will be on sometime next week, I believe) XM and Sirius, plus the standard stations (usually public broadcasting / NPR stations) around the country.

[Adam]

Congrats!

You should start a web site!

[James]

Last time I visited KSDS San Diego I checked the airplay "This is the Place" was getting --- and discovered that it's a pretty damn popular disc among the jocks, fellas. Congrats again on the success of the release!