Another great week coming up on XM with Ken Burns Jazz being featured as well as some other great exclusive XM porgramming

Monday

The John Cleese Special | Laugh USA - XM 151 | 8 AM - 9:00 AM ET- From Dead Parrots to A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese shares stories from his Monty Python days all the way up to his current movies and projects.

Front Row Fred: The Smiths | Fred - XM 44 | Noon - 1PM ET - Fred presents The Smiths, featuring Morrissey, in a live concert recorded at the National Club in North London in 1987. You’ll hear music from the classics Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead.

Artist Confidential: Andrea Bocelli | XM Pops - XM 113 | 6PM - 7PM ET - Andrea Bocelli is one of the best-known singers in the world. His latest CD, Amore, spent weeks in the top 10 along side Rock, Pop, R&B and Rap’s biggest stars - an album that features appearances by Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder and Kenny G. Join XM for an intimate performance and interview with one of the world’s biggest musical stars, as George Taylor Morris sits down with Andrea Bocelli for another edition of Artist Confidential - part of the XM Exclusive Music Series!

Tuesday

The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Program: #182 | Sonic Theater - XM 163 | 1PM - 2PM ET - A Nice Place To Visit starring Hal Sparks (Queer As Folk / Spiderman 2) features Sparks as a thief, Rocky Valentine, who was shot to death by a policeman. He meets Pip, an amiable white-haired guide, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.

Jammin’ Jazz…Jazz For The New Generation! | Beyond Jazz - XM 72 | 9PM - 10PM ET -This week enjoy another edition of our show Jammin’ Jazz…Jazz For The New Generation hosted by Michelle Sammartino. Hear “jamband” jazz, brass band, swamp boogie, funk influenced, booty movin’ feel that ya just can’t hear anywhere else.

Friday

Now On Hear Music: Phryday Phish Phry | Hear Musicâ„¢ - XM 75 | 2AM - 3AM ET - A phull Phish concert without interruption, taken phrom the LivePhish concert series.

The 2nd Annual Presentation of Ken Burns (Part 1) | Real Jazz - XM 70 | 7AM - 8:30AM ET - Jazz is born in New Orleans during the 1890’s, at the height of the Jim Crow era. It is a creation of the African-American community but incorporates every kind of music heard in the streets of the country’s most cosmopolitan city.

Larry Carlton & The Sapphire Blues Band | Watercolors - XM 71 | 9PM - 10:17 PM ET - Guitarist Larry Carlton with his blues band smoke in a 2005 concert recorded live from the XM Performance Theater.

Saturday

The 2nd Annual Presentation of Ken Burns (Part 2) | Real Jazz - XM 70 | 7AM - 9AM ET -Flappers, prohibition, speakeasies, and the booming stock market the uproarious Jazz Age sets the tone for this episode and the story of jazz becomes the story of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

Buffalo Springfeild: Rhino Anthology | The 60s - XM 6 | 11AM - 1PM ET - In Early 1966, the chance meeting of Stephen Stills and Neil Young spawned Buffalo Springfield a short-lived, yet highly influential 60s folk-rock group. Get ready to hear the songs, the collaborations, the live gigs, and the rough times. Only two years and threes albums but, the Buffalo Springfield, remains today, one of the most successful of all the 1960s groups.

The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Program: #182 | Sonic Theater - XM 163 | 11AM - Noon ET - The Bard stars John Ratzenberger (Cheers / Monsters Inc.) who plays Jack Weston as an untalented would-be TV writer whose career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes his scripts for him. Shakespeare is appalled by the sponsor’s changes, including the casting of a Marlon Brando type actor to play the lead.

Sunday

The 2nd Annual Presentation of Ken Burns (Part 3) | Real Jazz - XM 70 | 7AM - 9AM ET - As the stock market soars to record heights, jazz is played in dance halls and speakeasies everywhere. The music now places more emphasis on the innovations of supremely gifted individuals; for the first time, improvising soloists and singers take center stage. Bessie Smith helps make an industry out of the blues.

Music From The Great American Songbook | Real Jazz - XM 70 | 11AM - 1PM ET - Weekly two hour program featuring ballads and music from the Great American Songbook. Hosted by Dick Golden of the George Washington University in Washington, DC with special guest Tony Bennett.