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Jimmy McPartland This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to the Chicago jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland, husband of public radio's Marian McPartland. The couple met in Britain while Jimmy was serving in the armed forces during WWII. 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. Jimmy McPartland played alongside Bix Beiderbecke and Benny Goodman, and is credited as one of the architects of “Chicago Jazz." ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 18, 2011
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Michael Ricci
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 1 Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White Forever (Concord) 261 163 +98 0 65 1 8 2 1 5 Gerald Wilson Orchestra Legacy (Mack Avenue) 235 173 +62 1 70 1 5 3 — — Amina Alaoui Arco Iris (ECM) 178 — +178 8 41 3 1 4 44 — Terri Lyne Carrington The Mosaic Project (Concord) 172 69 +103 1 61 4 2 5 5 3 The ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Black Artists Group: In Paris, Aries 1973
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Audio Archive post features a rare recording by St. Louis' Black Artists Group, courtesy of the blog Nothing Is, v 2.0. In Paris, Aries 1973 was, as the title implies, recorded live in Paris in 1973 by a lineup including Joseph Bowie (trombone, conga, miscellaneous instruments), Baikida E.J. Carroll (trumpet, flugelhorn, bass, log drum, cowbells, miscellaneous instruments), Charles “Bobo" Shaw (drums, woodblocks, gong, miscellaneous instruments), Floyd LeFlore (trumpet, miscellaneous instruments, voice) and Oliver Lake (saxophones, flute, marimbas, mud ...
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Rockwired.com's Latest Edition of Jazzed and Blue Featured Tony Award-Winning Broadway Veteran Lea Salonga and Music from Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terence Blanchard and Tracy Nelson
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Rockwired Media LLC
The latest edition of Jazzed and Blue: Profiles in Blues and Jazz is now available for download at ROCKWIRED.COM and features music and an exclusive interview with Tony Award-winning and Olivier Award-winning Broadway veteran Lea Salonga. In this opening segment, Salonga discusses her latest release The Journey So Far, and her place on Broadway's pantheon. The second half of this edition of Jazzed and Blue will feature music from such jazz and blues artists as Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, ...
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Cole Porter's Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, singer Nina Ferro joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a concert of Cole Porter compositions live from the Filoli Estate in California. 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. You could say that Cole Porter was born with a platinum, jewel-encrusted spoon in his mouth. He enjoyed being “rich-rich." And this was before he made ...
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