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The Music Of Harold Arlen This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, in rare archival interview clips, Harold Arlen speaks about his career and how he wrote some of his most enduring songs, performed by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests: Nina Ferro, Dick Hyman, Rebecca Kilgore and Carol Woods. 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 ...
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The Whiteman Years This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band teams up with Vince Giordano and Andy Stein, specialists in the music of Paul Whiteman in the 1920s. 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. Revered as America’s number one dance bandleader in the ...
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Fletcher Henderson And Don Redman: The Birth Of The Big Band Reed Section
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents “Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman: The Birth of the Big Band Reed Section" with arrangements adapted by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band’s clarinetist Ron Hockett from the classic Henderson scores from the 1920s. To bring to life this distinctive sound, clarinetists Allan Vaché and Kim Cusack join Jim Cullum and the Band. 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 ...
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Lee Morgan Birthday Radio Special On WCOM-FM
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Larry Reni Thomas
Listen to “Sunday Night Jazz,” with host Larry Reni Thomas, on WCOM-FM (wcomfm.org), Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, July 14, 2013, from 9pm-12midnight, for A LEE MORGAN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL. The program will feature three hours of Morgan’s music and the airing of a profile and interview of Helen Morgan, the lady who shot the trumpet legend. She was responsible for saving his career and ending it. Listen to her story, from her mouth, and no other, and hear her side of ...
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Benny Goodman Small Combos Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, guests Allan Vaché and Chuck Hedges on clarinet, vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, and John Sheridan on piano join the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a tribute to the Benny Goodman small combos. 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. In ...
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WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 Receives Eight Honors from Public Radio News Directors, Inc.
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM received eight national Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Awards Saturday, June 22, in Cleveland, Ohio. WBGO News Director Doug Doyle accepted four First Place and four Second Place awards on behalf of the station. “The WBGO News Department was recognized for what we do best, covering the stories that matter the most to our listeners and presenting them in thoughtful and informative ways," said Doyle. “To share a little of the ...
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Sachal Vasandani Guest DJ!
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Paul Goldstein
The Jazz Groove announced today that one of the most important jazz singers of our time, Sachal Vasandani, will host his own two-hour radio special. Mr. Vasandani will talk about and play music he has chosen including artists such as Ben Wendel, Gerald Clayton, The New York Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, Ahmad Jamal, Freddie Hubbard, his own music and many other artists. Mr. Vasandani commented, “Choosing songs for The Jazz Groove radio show was a challenge, because so much has influenced ...
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Riverwalk Jazz BBQ This Week
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Don Mopsick
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band swings their way through some of your favorite warm-weather tunes this week on Riverwalk 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. Jim and the Band light up the sky with a number Louis Armstrong recorded with his Hot ...
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