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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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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 19, 2014
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JazzWeek
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks121Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)320252+6835514212Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)283278+515216353 Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)223213+1024035474David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)220210+1034746535Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)213232-1954938646Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant)196231-3514519767David Fathead Newman & The Tilden Webb Trio Cellar Groove (Cellar Live)193211-180423108128 Verve Jazz Ensemble East End Sojourn (Lightgroove Media)186168+18239849169Antonio Adolfo Rio Choro Jazz (AAM Music)175155+2024198101510Regina Carter Southern Comfort (Okeh)172162+10237106111011Alan Broadbent and NDR Bigband America The Beautiful (Jan Matthies)161172-11539103121312Eric Reed The Adventurous ...
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"Crazy Rhythm:" Red Nichols And His Five Pennies This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. 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. 1920s New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a ...
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Eastman School Of Music Jazz Concerts Get Encores On WGMC
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Helene Snihur
A weekly radio series featuring Eastman School of Music jazz performances through the years premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, on Jazz90.1 WGMC. Titled Jazz@Eastman: Past, Present, and Future, the programs will feature performances as well as works by Eastman faculty, students, and alumni. The series is a collaboration between Eastman and Jazz 90.1 and is underwritten in part by RG&E. Each hour-long program is hosted and co-produced by saxophonist Alexa Tarantino ‘14, who majored in jazz saxophone performance ...
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JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 12, 2014
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JazzWeek
TWLW2WArtistTWLWMoveAddRptsPeakWks111Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema)278306-2835215232Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote)252260-865023363Mike Longo Trio Step On It (CAP)232237-504537424Bruce Barth Daybreak (Savant)231262-31351185115 Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)213197+1654054646David Fathead Newman & The Tilden Webb Trio Cellar Groove (Cellar Live)211245-3404339757David Hazeltine For All We Know (Smoke Sessions)210239-2904455878Javon Jackson Expression (Smoke Sessions)190216-2614159989Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh)174207-33042115101710Alan Broadbent and NDR Bigband America The Beautiful (Jan Matthies)172170+253810210910George Cables Icons and Influences (HighNote)172206-34032114121812 Verve Jazz Ensemble East ...
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