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A Trio Of New Orleans Jazz Pioneers This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
In the early 1960s cornetist Jim Cullum was a young man in his 20s. He made a pilgrimage to New Orleans to explore the roots of jazz, meet jazz greats and sit in on jam sessions. This week on our show, Cullum recalls a jam session with cornetist Johnny Wiggs and Mardi Gras parades when he played with drummer Paul Barbarin and his father Jim Sr. in clarinetist Pete Fountain’s Half Fast Marching Band. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers ...
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Barbary Coast This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz we hear rare recordings of Sid LeProtti playing piano and actor Vernel Bagneris bringing LeProtti’s words to life. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays classic tunes that might have been danced to in the night spots of Pacific Street. 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 ...
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20-somethings Of Trad This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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William Carter
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, three remarkable “20-something” musicians join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on stage at The Landing in San Antonio. All share a passion for classic pre-WWII jazz and make an important contribution to the legacy of the music through their playing. 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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Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy Exits, Stock up 20%
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HypeBot
Wall Street reacted positively to news that Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy is exiting after 10 years at the helm. Pandora also announced strong quarterly earnings of $125 million, improving ad sales, and a strong forecast for the next. The company lost $14.6 million last quarter, but the stock still jumped almost 20% in after hours trading. Kennedy will stay on until a successor is named. “As part of our Board discussions of the road that lies ahead, I reached the ...
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Women Of The Harlem Renaissance This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, singer and actress Carol Woods—known for her many roles on Broadway and in the movies—joins us to remember the Women of the Harlem Renaissancen and celebrate their work. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests perform the music of Duke Ellington and James P Johnson. 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 ...
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Ending Radio's Free Ride
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HypeBot
By David Macias, cofounder of Thirty Tigers. He's exploring this topic further at SXSW on the panel Still Hazy After All These Years: Performance Royalties and Terrestrial Radio. The Robinson-Patman Act was a law passed in 1936 in order to strengthen anti-trust law. It forbids one entity from offering the same good or service to two different competitors for different prices, thus allowing one competitor to maintain a decided advantage in the marketplace. It provides exemptions, for instance, one for qualitative ...
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Nicole Henry Performs On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 3/8/13
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's SOUTH FLORIDA ARTS BEAT Friday, March 8th, 2013 Featuring NICOLE HENRY Miami Beach’s beloved Jazz, Pop and Soul vocal star returns for a worldwide performance on South Florida Arts Beat. She’ll sing tunes from the ‘70’s on her latest recording, So Good, So Right: Nicole Henry Live (Banister Records), with her all-star band comprised of Chris Cadenhead on the piano, Aaron Lebos on guitar, Eric ...
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Sophisticated Ladies And Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to separate “sophisticated ladies" from “red-hot mommas." Heart-breakers, man-takers, vamps, tramps and the girl next door—through the decades they’ve all shown up in song. Songwriters are forever trying to decipher the feminine mystique, and singers never tire of crooning about the many aspects of the female spirit. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be ...
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