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Riverwalk Jazz Salutes Clarinet Pioneer Johnny Dodds This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
February 3, 2011

Riverwalk Jazz this week pays tribute to first-generation jazzman and clarinet pioneer Johnny Dodds. Present-day New Orleans-based clarinet star Evan Christopher joins the Jim Cullum Jazz Band to perform Dodds classics like “Dippermouth Blues," “Melancholy Blues" and “Wild Man Blues." The program is distrubuted in the US by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website here. Johnny Dodds settled in Chicago but never strayed from his New Orleans roots. Dodds' clarinet sound, ...

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The Jazz Session #237: Rodrigo Amado

Source: AAJ Staff
February 3, 2011

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Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook

Source: David Brent Johnson
February 3, 2011

We know Langston Hughes as a celebrated African-American author of poems, essays, stories, memoirs and more. But Hughes also wrote songs-hundreds of them. Music was at the heart of his work, with jazz and blues informing the cadences, structures, and subject matter of many of his poems. In an early essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," he touted jazz and blues as a valid and vital expression of African-American identity in art; he was one of the few ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 24, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
February 1, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Russell Malone Triple Play (MAXJAZZ) 189 194 -5 0 45 1 12 2 21 — Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra Soul Of The Movement: Meditations On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Porto Franco) 179 86 +93 3 51 2 2 2 15 — Joe Lovano Bird Songs (Blue Note) 179 103 +76 1 51 2 2 4 4 2 Cassandra Wilson Silver Pony (Blue Note) 171 157 +14 ...

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The Jazz Session #236: Ray Anderson

Source: AAJ Staff
January 31, 2011

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Euro Jazz: New jazz radio with European focus

Source: Petr Vidomus
January 30, 2011

The new “Euro Jazz" radio has just started to broadcast in Prague, Czech Republic. This online project is a part of a long awaited jazz website produced by the Czech Radio (the only public radio in the country). The Euro Jazz radio is reachable at www.eurojazz.cz or at Delicast network. Euro Jazz is a continuous 24 / 7 jazz webcast with European focus in particular, which makes it unique and well recognizable in the vast majority of Internet radio stations. ...

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Rare Gems of Bix Beiderbecke on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
January 27, 2011

On public radio this week, Riverwalk Jazz explores cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's gift for music and his place in jazz history. One of the first major soloists to emerge in jazz, Beiderbecke is considered by many to be the first to start playing and recording ballads in a jazz context. Jazz historian, bandleader and bass saxophonist Vince Giordano, one of today's foremost interpreters of Bix's musical legacy and the leader of his Nighthawks Orchestra in New York City, joins The Jim ...

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Portrait of Little Jazz: a Centennial Tribute to Roy Eldridge

Source: David Brent Johnson
January 28, 2011

They called him “Little Jazz," but he was born David Roy Eldridge on January 30, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Roy Eldridge has often been called the link or bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. He was indeed a strong influence on Gillespie, who called him “the Messiah of our generation," and he certainly admired Armstrong, who he said taught him how to build a story out of his solos. Biographer John Chilton writes that: “The combination of Armstrong's ingenious ...

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