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Herb Geller: A Musician's Musician
by Joan Gannij
I first met Herb Geller in 2002 at a concert in Amsterdam at the original Bimhuis jazz club. The band was gathering their equipment from the stage and we started chatting about being raised in Los Angeles. When I was a teenager, the tall and lanky genial gent was playing at the local clubs that my ...
A Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the music of songwriters Vincent Youmans, Johnny Green and Harry Barris. Special guests Shelly Berg and Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on piano and Topsy Chapman, Marty Grosz and Carol Woods handle the vocals. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM ...
MoFrancesco Quintetto: Maloca
by Chris Mosey
A maloca is an ancestral long house used by Indians in the Amazonian jungle to receive outsiders and exchange knowledge and ideas. Italian bassist Francesco Valente became fascinated with the idea of the maloca on a trip to Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. A close perusal of the album cover reveals him doing a ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: NYC All-Stars & A New Year's Jam
This week The Jim Cullum Jazz Band swings in the New Year with featured artists—Dan Barrett on trombone, piano legend Dick Hyman, Broadway’s Carol Woods, jazz singer Stephanie Nakasian and Marty Grosz on vocals and guitar. Also on the bill—trumpeter Doc Cheatham, who was then 88 years old. The program is distributed in the US by ...
Notable & Nearly Missed in 2013
by C. Michael Bailey
More music is released each year than can be realistically followed by a given writer. I typically listen to much more music than I write about, not because this music is not worthy somehow but there is so little time. So, this year, I am going to write a “Notable & Nearly Missed" column to catch ...
"When Swing Was The Thing" This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we time-travel back to 1930s Manhattan to hear what the Swing Era was like from the perspective of a young fan, thanks to the teenage diaries of Bob Inman collected in his Swing Era Scrapbook published by Scarecrow Press. Special guest, San Francisco actor Darren Bridgett joins us with excerpts from ...
Whiz Kid Of Swing John Hammond This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with guests Dick Hyman, Topsy Chapman, Harry Allen and others, explore the towering legacy of John Hammond, the man called “the most influential talent scout and music producer in history.” The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...
Dave Bennett: Don't Be That Way
by Dan Bilawsky
Clarinetist Dave Bennett's Don't Be That Way is a throwback album, but it's not a carbon copy of what's come before. Bennett certainly finds inspiration in the work of past masters, driving down the highways and byways that have been paved by Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman and others, but he's willing to look at ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of 1930: Surviving On A Song
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the music that kept America swinging in the Great Depression with special guest vocalists Nina Ferro and Vernel Bagneris and a special appearance by blues legend Jay McShann. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can ...
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