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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

Source: Larry Reni Thomas
August 28, 2012

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

Source: Don Mopsick
August 23, 2012

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

Source: Ed Bell
August 23, 2012

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 20, 2012

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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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: West Coast Classic Jazz In Concert

Source: Don Mopsick
August 16, 2012

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

Source: Don Mopsick
August 9, 2012

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"

Source: SF Media
August 3, 2012

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.

Source: Don Mopsick
August 2, 2012

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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