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Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
January 19, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris offers a glimpse of Art Tatum through the words of jazz musicians who knew him, and noted pianist Shelly Berg performs Tatum masterworks with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Squarely grounded in the stride piano style of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, Art Tatum took solo ...

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Wilco: iTunes Session

Source: JamBase
January 18, 2012

PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE AT THE ITUNES STORE Recorded at Wilco's famed Chicago loft just a few days before Christmas, and on the eve of the band's sold-out “Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago," a new Wilco iTunes session is available for pre-order now, exclusively at itunes.com/wilco. The 8-song album features new versions of “Dawned On Me," “Born Alone," “I Might," “Black Moon," and “Whole Love" from Wilco's latest, the Grammy-nominated album The Whole Love. The iTunes session also features new recordings ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 9, 2012

Source: Michael Ricci
January 17, 2012

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Christian McBride Big Band The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) 155 150 +5 0 52 1 13 2 13 12 James Carter At The Crossroads (Emarcy) 153 102 +51 1 44 2 10 2 1 4 Houston Person So Nice (HighNote) 153 169 -16 0 42 1 8 4 7 5 George Benson Guitar Man (Concord Jazz) 141 123 +18 0 37 2 13 5 3 3 Pat Martino Undeniable: ...

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Maurice Hogue's "One Man's Jazz" moves from CKUW/Winnipeg to taintradio.org

Source: Bob Rogers
January 14, 2012

Taintradio.org is pleased to announce that veteran program producer/host Maurice Hogue (formerly at CKUW/Winnipeg), will join taintradio's alliance of independent producers. One man's jazz, a weekly three-hour program, will debut on taintradio at 9pm (eastern) on Thursday, January 19th. The program will repeat Mondays 4-7am (eastern). We are confident that Maurice Hogue and taintradio are a perfect match. Hogue noted, “The show has moved after much consideration, given that I had been at CKUW since it began operations in 1999. ...

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Live Jazz On WLRN.org featuring Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion

Source: Ed Bell
January 14, 2012

Please join our audience for another great musical performance on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat on Friday, January 13th, 2012 Featuring SAMMY FIGUEROA and his LATIN JAZZ EXPLOSION This New York born (Bronx), Miami resident is one of the world's leading percussionists. He has performed and recorded with legends in Pop, Rock, Latin, Jazz, Brazilian and Rhythm and Blues for decades. Stars such as Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Chaka Kahn, David Bowie, Mariah Carey, Dave Sanborn, Quincy Jones, Lena Horne, ...

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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Blues Queens Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Victoria Spivey

Source: Don Mopsick
January 12, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris and singer Topsy Chapman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a tribute to Ma Rainey, her Rabbit Foot Minstrels and blues shouters of the Deep South in the 1920s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Long before Mamie Smith had the first hit blues recording in 1921, “blues shouters" in traveling tent ...

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Pat Metheny Headlines the Premier of Reeds & Deeds II

Source: Lydia Liebman
January 10, 2012

Reeds & Deeds II, the popular jazz radio program broadcast from Emerson College in Boston, premiers a 4th season this Sunday, January 15th at 6pm. The show is continuing on its great success of the past three season. From September to December 2011, Reeds & Deeds II interviewed greats such as Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Stanley Sagov and The Jacob Fred Odyssey as well as up and coming jazz students including Jeremy De Jesus and The 427 Factory. This seasons' ...

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The Jim Cullum Jazz Band Celebrates 50 Years

Source: Don Mopsick
January 5, 2012

Riverwalk Jazz this week celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a concert recorded live in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall—to a bull ring in Mexico—and concert halls in Siberia. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk ...

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