Results for "Bob Haggart"

Bob Haggart

Born: March 13, 1914

Xhosa Cole: K(no)w Them, K(no)w Us

by Chris May
August 14, 2021

When tenor saxophonist Xhosa Cole won the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year prize in 2018, Britain was introduced to a young player with formidable technique and a solid grasp of the post-John Coltrane African American tradition. Cole was then little known outside Birmingham, his hometown in England's Midlands, and he had developed independently of ...

Ian Shaw, Iain Ballamy, Jamie Safir: What's New

by Chris May
March 22, 2020

What's new? Not the dozen songs on this enchanting trio album. Most of them have been around for well over fifty years and people will likely still be enjoying them in another fifty. The composers include Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Van Heusen, Michel Legrand and Leonard Bernstein. Musically sophisticated and lyrically literate, the ...

The EarRegulars: The EarRegulars

by Angelo Leonardi
August 3, 2015

Deliziosi. Si chiamano EarRegulars perchè si esibiscono ogni domenica sera all'Ear Inn, il più antico working bar di New York City, al 326 di Spring Street. I leader sono il trombettista Jon-Erik Kellso e il chitarrista Matt Munisteri che aggregano vari e differenti partner proponendo un jazz fondato sull'estetica pre boppistica: dixieland e classic jazz. ...

Legends At The Landing This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

July 18, 2014

Jazz Appreciation Month brings out our appreciation for three legends of jazz as we welcome our first inductees into the Riverwalk Jazz Hall of Fame. Our Most Valued Players are trumpeter Doc Cheatham, bassist and composer Bob Haggart and vocalist Joe Williams. Adophus “Doc" Cheatham (1905-1997) was a walking encyclopedia of jazz history. He rubbed shoulders ...

"Originals By Originals" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

June 27, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, jazz legends perform their own compositions with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. We dig into the archive for “Originals by Originals." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in ...

Jazz Ballads This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 2, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it's “Gentle Giants: The Beauty of The Jazz Ballad." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded ...

Riverwalk Jazz Whenever You Want!

February 5, 2013

By Mick Carlon The only drawback to my all-time favorite radio show, Riverwalk Jazz, was that I had to wait until Saturday mornings to listen. No longer! Thanks to Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound, twenty five years of this exalted show—over 350 radio shows, over 4,000 song performances—are now available twenty four hours a day, ...

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart And Joe Williams

January 25, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz: Doc Cheatham, Bob Haggart and Joe Williams share their music and stories with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous ...

Jim Cullum Celebrates 50 Years This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

December 27, 2012

This week Riverwalk Jazz honors The Jim Cullum Jazz Band tocelebrate its 50th Anniversary in a concert recorded live at The Tobin Estate 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 ...