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Changes at KPLU
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Seattle-Tacoma, WA) Beginning October 28, 2012, 88.5 KPLU’s Sunday program schedule will change between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. KPLU’s Assistant General Manager/Director of Content Joey Cohn said the station is discontinuing broadcasts of Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland from 2 to 3 p.m. The 94 year-old McPartland hasn’t recorded a new show for over two years, and KPLU has been airing reruns. “It was not an easy decision (to drop the show) as Marian McPartland has been on KPLU ...
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Scott Yanow On Jazz Films This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Get the popcorn ready.The curtain is about to go up on Kid Ory—Lionel Hampton—and Louis Armstrong. This week, we take a look at some of the world’s top jazz artists—who not only provided music for Hollywood movies—but appear on the silver screen as well. Scott Yanow, author of Jazz on Film, joins David Holt in the studio to talk about the great—and sometimes not so great—Hollywood movies featuring high-level jazz performances on camera. We’ve provided links online to video clips ...
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Salute To San Antonio Bandleader Don Albert This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—augmented by five horn players—takes the stage of the Jo Long Theatre at San Antonio’s Carver Cultural Center to re-create the sounds of the territory bands of the '30s and San Antonio swing. Much of this music has not been heard in 70 years or more. In a script inspired by Sterlin Holmesly’s oral history collection, the award-winning Broadway and Hollywood actor Vernel Bagneris brings to life the world of Don ...
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South Florida Jazz Orchestra Performs On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, October 12, 2012
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Ed Bell
Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, October 12th, 2012 Featuring the SOUTH FLORIDA JAZZ ORCHESTRA Under The Direction Of CHUCK BERGERON Founded in 2005, the SFJO quickly became the premier big band in the area. Under the direction of former Woody Herman and Buddy Rich Big Band bassist and composer, Chuck Bergeron, the SFJO released their ...
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International Jazz Broadcast Series "The Checkout" Returns to Berklee
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Allen Bush
Berklee, NPR Music and WBGO to Broadcast and Webcast Worldwide The Checkout - Live at Berklee from the Red Room @ Cafe 939 October 18 begins year two of the popular concert series featuring prominent New York- based Berklee alumni Boston, MA: Famed New York area radio station WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM/wbgo.org, NPR Music, and Berklee College of Music are teaming up to present a second year of The Checkout – Live at Berklee. The series brings critically acclaimed, New ...
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Premiere: Audio Documentary: Thelonious Monk: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM, October 7th
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Larry Reni Thomas
Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, October 7, 2012, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Thelonious Monk Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Thelonious Monk’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Thelonious Monk: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and analysis from Jim Ketch, a trumpet player and a jazz studies professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Larry Ridley, ...
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Bricktop’s Jazz In 1930s' Montmartre This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actors Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the Hot Club of San Francisco give us a musical tour of Paris in the '30s. 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. Bricktop played barkeep to the “Lost Generation" of international ...
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"Let's Talk Jazz" With Gary Giddins On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
Film critic Richard Schickel wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “We see our culture more clearly because of [Gary Giddins’] force, intelligence and alertness to overlooked detail.” Giddins is our guest 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. From 1973—2003 Gary Giddins wrote his “Weather Bird" column for New York's Village Voice, earning himself international recognition and ...
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