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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Battle Of The Bands With Banu Gibson, Savion Glover & William Warfield
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Don Mopsick
Riverwalk Jazz this week presents an old-fashioned Battle of the Bands pitting the Jim Cullum Jazz Band against Banu Gibson and her New Orleans Hot Jazz. 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. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Early 20th-century New Orleans demanded live music for almost every occasion, ...
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Host Lee Williams Launches New Internet Jazz Station at Live365
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Wm Kauffman
Hello Jazz Listeners, This is an introduction to a new Internet Jazz Radio Station based in New Jersey that was launched on August 15, 2013. The programming consists mostly of mainstream / traditional Jazz but also includes some Blues, Gospel (accented with a few Jazz artists) and occasional R & B / Pop tunes just to add a little flavor. Actually many jazz musicians play in more than one genre and it’s almost necessary to be able to do that ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: October 7, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 289 254 +35 6 54 1 3 2 1 2 Kenny Burrell Special Requests (HighNote) 255 265 -10 0 48 1 7 3 4 3 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 241 234 +7 1 45 3 5 4 10 4 Ahmad Jamal Saturday Morning (Jazzbook) 227 183 +44 6 44 4 2 5 6 5 New Gary Burton ...
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The Joe Chambers Radio Special On WCOM-FM On November 17, 2013!
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Larry Reni Thomas
Listen to “Sunday Night Jazz" November 17, 2013, 9pm-12mid, on WCOM-FM, 103.5 FM, for THE JOE CHAMBERS RADIO SPECIAL, a three hour long program, featuring Chambers's music and an interview with the twice Grammy-nominated legendary musician, composer and educator. Chambers has recorded as a sideman, a drummer/percussionist/vibraphonist, and a leader on more than 500 albums and CDs, and has performed with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillispie, and others, Joe is scheduled to talk about his recent teaching projects, including ...
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Eccentric Genius Of Jelly Roll Morton This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for Wild Man Blues, a musical biography based on stories from the personal diaries of Jelly Roll Morton, compiled by the late William Russell, the first curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University in New Orleans, and published in the book Oh, Mister Jelly. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 30, 2013
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JazzWeek
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Kenny Burrell Special Requests (HighNote) 265 246 +19 5 57 1 6 2 37 2 Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit (Blue Note) 254 106 +148 16 52 2 2 3 5 3 Christian McBride Trio Out Here (Mack Avenue) 241 198 +43 1 45 1 12 4 7 4 Kenny Garrett Pushing The World Away (Mack Avenue) 234 196 +38 3 49 4 4 4 2 4 ...
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Porgy & Bess Part 2 This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz offers an encore presentation of the concluding episode in George Gershwin’s folk opera, Porgy and Bess, featuring acting legend William Warfield as narrator. This two-part series features an original jazz transcription of the music from Porgy and Bess, created by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and recorded at The Landing in San Antonio in 1992. Among his many accolades, Mr. Warfield is known for his role as Porgy opposite Leontyne Price (see photo). The program is ...
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Porgy And Bess Part I This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
For the next two weeks, Riverwalk Jazz presents a two-part special, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band’s acclaimed jazz transcription of George Gershwin’s American folk opera Porgy and Bess. Theater legend William Warfield, the award-winning bass-baritone famous for his memorable stage role as Porgy, appears as narrator in this encore presentation. 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. You can also drop in ...
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