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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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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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