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The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66
by Skip Heller
Louis Armstrong officially returned to small band leadership May 17, 1947 via a triumphant concert at Town Hall that was less comeback than reaffirmation. It was even the dawn of his second great period, full of recordings that stood tall with his epochal 1920's output, and the subsequently-assembled Louis Armstrong and his All Stars would immediately ...
Afro Blue: We Shall Overcome
by Jack Bowers
The vocal group Afro Blue was founded (in 2002) by its director, Connaitre Miller, Jazz Voice Coordinator at Howard University in Washington, DC. Miller's approach to vocal jazz is patterned after that of such celebrated groups as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, the Manhattan Transfer and Take 6, a blueprint that has served Afro Blue well and ...
Charlotte Jazz Festival 2019
by Perry Tannenbaum
Patina Miller, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Future of Jazz Orchestra, Maria Muldaur, Carlos Henriquez, Paul Nedzela, and Donna Hopkins Charlotte Jazz Festival Charlotte, NC May 1-4, 2019 Presented by the Leon Levine Foundation and staged by Blumenthal Performing Arts, the Charlotte Jazz Festival is continuing to grow incrementally ...
Class Of '29 This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we follow the year 1929 in music, from Harlem cabarets to Broadway shows, to Hollywood movies and jazz recordings. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. In 1929, jazz ...
A Riverwalk Jazz Valentine This Week
Valentine’s Day brings out our most sentimental feelings one moment and then inspires the goofiest humor the next. This week, Riverwalk Jazz explores both sides of the coin on our concert of love songs from the interwar years, interpreted by our stable of great performers sitting in with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is ...
Class Of 29: Jazz On The Move On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we follow the year 1929 in music, from Harlem cabarets to Broadway shows, from Hollywood movies to jazz recordings. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. In 1929, jazz was making its way ...
This Week on Riverwalk Jazz: Fats Waller, Composer
Riverwalk Jazz this week focuses on Fats Waller the composer. Fats wrote over 500 compositions in his short twenty-year career. His friend, the lyricist Andy Razaf said that “music poured out of Fats like water." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
Ebony Love Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
To honor Black History Month, this week Riverwalk Jazz and The Jim Cullum Jazz Band take note of Valentine's Day with songs created by the first black composers to turn out love songs for mainstream America via Broadway, Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley. The program is distributed by Public Radio International, XM/Sirius sattelite radio and can ...
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