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Riverwalk Jazz Whenever You Want!
By Mick Carlon The only drawback to my all-time favorite radio show, Riverwalk Jazz, was that I had to wait until Saturday mornings to listen. No longer! Thanks to Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound, twenty five years of this exalted show—over 350 radio shows, over 4,000 song performances—are now available twenty four hours a day, ...
Jim Cullum Celebrates 50 Years This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week Riverwalk Jazz honors The Jim Cullum Jazz Band tocelebrate its 50th Anniversary in a concert recorded live at The Tobin Estate in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the Band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall to a bull ring ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Goodman, Shaw & Dorsey: Big Band Leaders And Their Small Combos.
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band remembers hot jazz from the small combos of the Swing Era with “At the Codfish Ball” from the Clambake Seven, “Summit Ridge Drive” from the Gramercy Five, “Moonglow” from the Goodman Quartet, and the Ellington small groups with a composition by Cootie Williams, “A Toasted Pickle.” ...
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band Celebrates 50 Years
Riverwalk Jazz this week celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a concert recorded live in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall—to a bull ring in Mexico—and concert halls in ...
Clarinetist Dave Bennett Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, youthful clarinetist Dave Bennett joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to sample music from the long career of his main inspiration, Benny Goodman. With clarinetist Ron Hockett, Dave explores classics of “chamber jazz" that Goodman recorded with his small groups—"Avalon," “Runnin' Wild," “I Got Rhythm," and “Tiger Rag." Dave is one ...
Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, former Bob Crosby Orchestra members, trumpeter Yank Lawson and bassist Bob Haggart, are heard in rare live performance tracks of Crosby repertoire recorded with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a 1989 visit to The Landing. The hour-long public radio program is distrubuted in the USA by Public Radio International and ...
Ben Pollack on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum Jazz Band drummer Hal Smith joins host David Holt to talk about Ben Pollack's often overlooked contribution to jazz. The show is heard on public radio stations nationwide, distributed by Public Radio International, and can also be heard on XM/Sirius sattelite radio and streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz ...
"Class of '39" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
Riverwalk Jazz this week offers a musical snapshot of 1939, a year that produced some of the greatest motion pictures, jazz recordings, and songwriting of the 20th century. Stream this hour-long show now in its entirety in Windows Media. Musical guests for this show (in encore appearances) include piano legend Dick Hyman, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, the ...
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