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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Mort Weiss: In Twilight... Not!

by C. Michael Bailey
July 23, 2013

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams... --Yann Martel, The Life of Pi The Internet has done a bang-up job of bringing everything and everybody closer together. An immediate effect ...

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Benny Goodman Small Combos Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

July 11, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, guests Allan Vaché and Chuck Hedges on clarinet, vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, and John Sheridan on piano join the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a tribute to the Benny Goodman small combos. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand ...

Article: Album Review

Maud Hixson: Don't Let A Good Thing Get Away

Read "Don't Let A Good Thing Get Away" reviewed by David Bittinger

by David Bittinger
July 6, 2013

This collection of songs by veteran composer Michael Leonard has deep roots but contemporary character. It was laid down in New York's legendary Nola Recording Studio, whose clients have included Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. The outstanding instrumentalists--cornetist Warren Vache, bassist Steve LaSpina, guitarist Gene Bertoncini, and pianist/arranger Tex Arnold--have worked with such luminaries as Benny ...

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"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 ...

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Tio Family Clarinet Dynasty This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

June 20, 2013

It’s the story of The Tio Family, a New Orleans clarinet dynasty, this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes Evan Christopher, a dynamic New Orleans-based clarinetist and student of early jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...

Article: New York Beat

Big Band Retrospective at The Allen Room

by Nick Catalano
June 15, 2013

Emceed by scholar/ vocalist Michael Feinstein, Jazz at Lincoln Center continued its 25th anniversary season in a celebration of the big band era. With music supplied by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, an ideal orchestra for such a program, Feinstein succeeded in deepening an understanding of the relationship between the bands, their vocalists, and the songwriter/arrangers ...

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Take Five With Joseph David Howell

by AAJ Staff
June 15, 2013

Meet Joseph David Howell: Dr. Joseph D. Howell has gone from being a mostly self-taught musician from a poor small-town family to earning a Doctor of Musical Arts from a prestigious conservatory. Today he professionally performs, composes, and teaches music of many styles and instruments while maintaining an artistic focus on jazz clarinet and ...

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Artie Shaw: Portrait Of Perfection This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

June 14, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum and the Band pay tribute to Artie Shaw, the only serious rival Benny Goodman had to his title as “The King of Swing." By the time he was 30, Shaw’s effortless clarinet solos, his innovative musical arrangements, and his unusual band instrumentation earned him a place in the pantheon ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Goodman

May 30, 2013

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Goodman's birthday today! Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny\'s mother never learned to speak English. His father worked for a tailor to support his ...

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Article: Film Review

A Great Day in Harlem: The Spirit Lives - 50 Years On

by Ian Patterson
May 30, 2013

This encore presentation from January 2009 celebrates Jean Bach, director of A Great Day in Harlem. Ms. Bach died on May 27th at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.It is probably the most celebrated ensemble jazz portrait of all time. Fifty-seven of the greatest jazz musicians gathered together on the steps of a ...