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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: West Coast Classic Jazz In Concert
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Don Mopsick
They called their music “The Truth"—real, righteous Traditional Jazz. By the early 1940s, its champions were the powerful West Coast brassmen Turk Murphy and Lu Watters. Disciples of “The Real Stuff" themselves, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band presents their concert tribute to The West Coast Classic Jazz Revival at the Stanford Jazz Festival in California, 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 ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: After Hours With Piano Legend Dick Hyman
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Don Mopsick
A Riverwalk Jazz frequent and favorite guest artist, piano legend Dick Hyman returns this week for an impromptu jam session with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in San Antonio. 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. Dick Hyman has lent his talents as a pianist, arranger and composer to radio, the recording studio and movies, including more than a dozen Woody Allen ...
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Chihiro Yamanaka Trio On "Jazzset With Dee Dee Bridgewater"
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SF Media
The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will appear on National Public Radio's “JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater," scheduled for broadcast on WBGO (88.3 FM, Newark) on August 5, from 7 PM to 8 PM, and on many other NPR-affiliated stations throughout the United States. The program will present highlights from Ms. Yamanaka's May 10, 2012 acclaimed performance at the Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In addition to ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Goodman, Shaw & Dorsey: Big Band Leaders And Their Small Combos.
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band remembers hot jazz from the small combos of the Swing Era with “At the Codfish Ball” from the Clambake Seven, “Summit Ridge Drive” from the Gramercy Five, “Moonglow” from the Goodman Quartet, and the Ellington small groups with a composition by Cootie Williams, “A Toasted Pickle.” Special features on the broadcast include an interview with Goodman small group personnel–pianist Teddy Wilson and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton. Guest performers include saxophonist Harry ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Test Of Time: A Century Of Song
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band gives the “hot rhythm treatment” to rags, parlor songs and spirituals composed a century or more ago. From Jack Norworth’s “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” to Kerry Mills' Cakewalk “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” and Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” we’ll explore the roots of hot jazz in a century of song, with help from guest artists Topsy Chapman, Bob Barnard, Mike Walbridge, Evan Christopher and Kenny Davern. ...
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Johnny Smith: Roost Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Each jazz instrument in the '50s had a different set of competitive criteria. Trumpet players were about tension and heat, saxophonists about developing a smooth and swinging sound, and pianists about speed and percussive intensity. As for jazz guitarists, rankings often revolved around the taste of the artists chord and note choices and who could sound most appealing to the ear. Both of these bars were set by the instrument's own rhythm-keeping role and the need to develop soft, elegant ...
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Radio.SC Turns Soundcloud Users into Radio Stations
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HypeBot
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. SoundCloud was originally designed to help musicians send songs (or bits of songs) to each other and their “people" within the industry. Maybe that's why it still has so many users who seem to be either professionally, semi-professionally, or just obsessively involved with music. We hear SoundCloud even has a really cool Fletch ringtone among its many treasures, which include early mixes, remixes, exclusives, mashups, and other super fresh material from various ...
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Fats, Hoagy And W.C. Handy This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week Riverwalk Jazz explores the rich legacy of three jazz heroes whose work has inspired The Jim Cullum Jazz Band through the years—Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael and the blues-driven work of W.C. Handy. Series favorites Vernel Bagneris, Topsy Chapman and Shelly Berg join the band on the stage of Pearl Stable, a century-old limestone horse stable transformed into a state-of-the-art theater at San Antonio’s historic Pearl Brewery. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on ...
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