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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Red Nichols
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. 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. 1920s New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a redheaded kid from Utah ...
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Australian Cornet Master Bob Barnard On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Australian cornet master Bob Barnard joins the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand. Together they play classic tunes made famous by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and other originals by Australian composers and Bob himself. 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. An Appreciation By Don Mopsick Over almost two decades with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, ...
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Shelly Berg On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, pianist Shelly Berg joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand in San Antonio for a free-wheeling jam session. 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. The LA Times calls him “a whirlwind of motion on the piano bench.” He’s a composer, arranger, educator, conductor, and jazz piano virtuoso. He recorded with Woody Herman, Louis Bellson, ...
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Jazz From Caramoor: All Play & No Work On Labor Day - Caramoor Jazz Fest Network
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
Jazz from Caramoor: All Play and No Work for Labor Day on the Caramoor Jazz Festival Network Featuring The Cookers, Gretchen Parlato, Kenny Barron, Dee Dee Bridgewater and the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band from the 19th Caramoor Jazz Festival in Katonah, NY Hosted by WBGO’s Rhonda Hamilton The annual jazz festival at Caramoor, a garden of great music near Katonah, NY, took place this past July 28, and WBGO was there. Now for Labor Day, WBGO’s Rhonda Hamilton ...
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Premiere: Audio Documentary: John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM
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Larry Reni Thomas
Listen to WCOM-FM,Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina for the premiere, the first airing of the audio documentary “John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual," September 23, 2012, during The John Coltrane Birthday Special, on Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Reni Thomas, from 9pm-12m. The recently completed profile includes music and commentary from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jazz Studies Director, trumpeter Jim Ketch, and bassist and retired Rutgers University Jazz Studies professor, Larry Ridley. “John Coltrane: A ...
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Guitar Pioneers This Week On Rivewalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a show devoted to pioneers of jazz guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough and Django Reinhardt. 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. Recognized by Down Beat in 2008 as one of 75 top jazz guitarists, ...
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Miami Jazz Project Performs On Wlrn's South Florida Arts Beat, 8/24/12
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Ed Bell
Please join our worldwide audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat Friday, August 24th, 2012 With MIAMI JAZZ PROJECT FEATURING ARTHUR BARRON Comprised of an all-star line up of South Florida based musicians featuring band leader Arthur Barron on saxophones and flute and musical director Abel Pabon on keyboards, the group also includes Augustin Conti on bass, Rodolpho Zuniga ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Stepping Out
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's Audio Archive post, we revisit Stepping Out!, a 1966 release by the popular St. Louis group Quartette Trés Bien. A groove-oriented piano-trio-plus-percussionist, the QTB rose to fame during the Gaslight Square era, right around the same time that Ramsey Lewis and Young-Holt Unlimited were successfully purveying similar sounds up in Chicago. The band's fifth album to get national distribution as part of their deal with Decca Records, Stepping Out! has been out of print for decades and ...
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