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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of '26: Soundtrack Of The Jazz Age
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman, actor/playwright Vernel Bagneris, guitarist/singer/raconteur Marty Grosz, cornetist Bob Barnard and fiddler Andy Stein join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the Class of '26: The Soundtrack of the Jazz Age. 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. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House, Wheatena was on the breakfast table, and for ...
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Johnny Hartman Feature Ahead Of New Book
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Gregg Akkerman
Radio host Bill McCann will air a Johnny Hartman feature on his June 23 “Saturday Morning Edition of Jazz" show in acknowledgement of the artist's 89th birthday and an upcoming book. Heard on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York, McCann will include guests Tom Pierce and Gregg Akkerman. Piece will contribute his recollections of seeing Hartman perform before the jazz singer died in 1983 from cancer. Akkerman will feature anecdotes from his upcoming book The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman ...
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Fats Waller Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
On Memorial Day Weekend 1989, Riverwalk Jazz made its national debut. This week, to celebrate over twenty years on the air, we revisit our first national broadcast, a program with piano legend Dick Hyman devoted to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller. Since that first national broadcast, Dick Hyman has joined us for so many radio shows that we sometimes think of him as the eighth member of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Dick is a renowned specialist in historical piano jazz styles; ...
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Hot Club Of San Francisco On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, acouistic guitarist Paul Mehling and the Hot Club of San Francisco join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the great Gypsy Jazz guitarist 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. Think of 20th century guitar greats—Charlie Christian, B. B. King, Bucky Pizzarelli and Les Paul—they all have one thing in common. Each one of ...
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WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category At NYABJ Awards
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
WBGO-FM Jazz 88.3 Sweeps Radio Category at NY Association of Black Journalists Awards NEWARK, NJ: Jazz station WBGO-FM/Jazz 88.3 swept the Radio Category with First Place honors in General News, Public Affairs and Arts & Entertainment at the 2012 New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 15, at The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York. NYABJ recognizes the best in Print, New Media, Radio, Magazine and Television ...
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Sidney Bechet Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
The largely self-taught New Orleans reedman Sidney Bechet developed one of the most distinctive solo voices in jazz. Unlike Louis Armstrong, Bechet never achieved stardom in the United States. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway’s Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and reedman Bob Wilber to explore Bechet's musical legacy. 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. Born in 1897 ...
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Live Jazz Performance On WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, 5/11/12
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Radio Jazz Guy
Please tune in and join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, May 11th, 2012 With MIKE LEVINE This great music educator/composer/pianist has been a stalwart of South Florida’s Jazz scene for decades. With numerous recordings under his belt, his latest, Thinking of You (Downtimes Productions), features Mike’s signature brand of contemporary, melodic Jazz, Rhythm and Blues and Latin influences so synonymous with “the Miami sound.” Loaded with South Florida’s “first-call” musicians, his ...
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Sirius: The Future Belongs to Those Who Curate...
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Digital Music News
Sirius XM Radio is lucky to be alive, and their growth hasn't been cheap. But with 22.3 million subscribers, this is easily the largest music subscription service in the world. In fact, they have roughly seven times the global subscriber base of Spotify, and Sirius chairman Mel Karmazin recently claimed to have more subscribers than all other music services combined. The stats solidly back that claim. Which means, Sirius knows something about curating content and monetizing the music consumer, despite ...
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