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Songs Of Jimmy McHugh This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Jimmy McHugh’s songs entered the jazz pantheon through recordings by Art Tatum, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and many, many more. Today McHugh’s songs remain among the most popular jazz standards recorded by both mainstream and traditional jazz artists. In this week’s Riverwalk Jazz broadcast devoted to McHugh's songs, tap master Savion Glover pays tribute to Bojangles’ legendary performance of “Doin’ the New Lowdown,” and singers Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Rebecca Kilgore interpret McHugh classics “I've Got My Fingers Crossed," ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 9, 2014
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JazzWeek
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)288290-225319232Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)287259+2815917323Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)240263-2324128464JC Stylles Blakey Grease (American Showplace Music)222196+2634844545Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)220210+10141311686Louis Hayes Return Of The Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions)217188+2955063777David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)201192+9241398158Verve Jazz Ensemble East End Sojourn (Lightgroove Media)200163+3703187949Eric Reed The Adventurous Monk (Savant)197210-1334747101110Steve Kroon On The #1 (Kroonatune, Llc)193176+17945104111411Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Life In The Bubble (Telarc)192169+23542113121312Harvey Mason Chameleon (Concord)181170+11138125132313Ted Rosenthal ...
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"The Whiteman Years" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band teams up with Vince Giordano and Andy Stein, specialists in the music of Paul Whiteman in the 1920s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Revered as America’s number one dance bandleader in the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was committed to providing “something for everyone” with his approach to ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 2, 2014
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JazzWeek
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)290309-1905318242Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)263192+7134627323Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)259289-3045416464Eric Reed The Adventurous Monk (Savant)210176+3455146454Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)210190+202423106106JC Stylles Blakey Grease (American Showplace Music)196166+3094763737David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)192208-16040388288Louis Hayes Return Of The Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions)188119+69164682979Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant)183175+8143111101210Marcus Roberts Trio From Rags To Rhythm (J Master)180159+21139108111711Steve Kroon On The #1 (Kroonatune, Llc)176142+3464311312812Alan Broadbent and NDR Bigband America The Beautiful (Jan Matthies)173173004185131513Harvey ...
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Harold Arlen This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, in rare archival interview clips, Harold Arlen speaks about his career and how he wrote some of his most enduring songs, performed by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests: Nina Ferro, Dick Hyman, Rebecca Kilgore and Carol Woods. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Critic Alec Wilder wrote of Harold ...
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Sean Noonan Will Preview Music From New CD On Concert Window Webcast On May 28
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GoMedia PR
On Wednesday, May 28, drummer, composer and producer Sean Noonan will preview music from his upcoming June 3 album, Pavees Dance: There's Always the Night, in a very special webcast on Concert Window. The live, real-time performance will feature Noonan, along with keyboardist Alex Marcelo, and - in a rare performance - former Can frontman Malcolm Mooney. The webcast will begin at 5:00 PM Eastern time. In addition to the watching the performance, viewers will get to chat live during ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 26, 2014
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JazzWeek
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks121Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)309283+2624917212Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)289320-3155815343David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)208220-1234237434 Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)192223-3144236555Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)190213-23037396126Eric Reed The Adventurous Monk (Savant)176158+1834565767Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant)175196-210411108118Alan Broadbent and NDR Bigband America The Beautiful (Jan Matthies)173161+12241849109Regina Carter Southern Comfort (Okeh)168172-413997101510JC Stylles Blakey Grease (American Showplace Music)166145+2143810211811 Verve Jazz Ensemble East End Sojourn (Lightgroove Media)160186-2623385121412Marcus Roberts Trio From Rags To Rhythm (J Master)159151+834112713913Antonio Adolfo ...
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20th Anniversary Revisited 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 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; especially ...
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