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Article: New York Beat

Tribute To Sammy Nestico at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Read "Tribute To Sammy Nestico at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola" reviewed by Nick Catalano


On Monday March 24th Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola was the again the scene of a memorable big band concert from the Manhattan School of Music Concert Jazz Band under the direction of Justin DiCioccio. On the occasion of Sammy Nestico's 90th birthday, the director (who was a cohort of Nestico's in White House dance bands of the ...

News: Radio

A Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

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 ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With David Tughan

Read "Take Five With David Tughan" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet David Tughan: I was born and raised in Northern Ireland. My passion for jazz began at 13 when I encountered the Count Basie Orchestra while vacationing in Florida. Inspired by the swinging energy and joyful sounds of the big band, I began listening to many instrumentalists like Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Stephane Grappelli, and ...

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Article: Book Review

Juan Tizol: His Caravan Through Life and American Culture

Read "Juan Tizol: His Caravan Through Life and American Culture" reviewed by Tomas Pena


Juan Tizol--His Caravan Through Life and American Culture Basilio Serrano Pages ISBN: #978-14691-8166 Xlibris 2012 Basilio Serrano is a seasoned educator, historian and a person who is all too familiar with the plight of Puerto Ricans whose contributions to jazz have been ignored or forgotten. In 2000 he ...

Album

El Señor Bing

Label: Universal Music
Released: 2013

News: Radio

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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Article: Album Review

A Sondheim Jazz Project: A Sondheim Jazz Project: City of Strangers

Read "A Sondheim Jazz Project: City of Strangers" reviewed by David Bittinger


This CD crosses two soft borders: one between Canada and the U.S, and one between show tunes and jazz. It presents the work of the most famous Broadway songwriter of the past half century as might be heard performed at the Village Vanguard rather than the Winter Garden.Saxophonist and arranger Bobby Hsu's “A Sondheim ...

News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: Bing and Trane

Weekend Extra: Bing and Trane

I don’t know whether “Love Thy Neighbor” is the most unlikely song John Coltrane ever recorded, but his 1958 version is one of the most delightful. Mack Gordon and Harry Revel wrote it for the 1934 movie We’re Not Dressing, a classic of the shipwreck survivor genre. Bing Crosby sang it beautifully in a contrived sequence ...

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Article: Book Review

David Byrne: How Music Works

Read "David Byrne: How Music Works" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


How Music WorksDavid ByrneHardcover, 352 pagesISBN: 1936365537Canongate Books Ltd.2012By definition, a renaissance man suggests a highly cultivated man of many accomplishments, someone who has a broad base of knowledge and interests, and is skilled in multiple fields or multiple disciplines. As a musician, singer, ...

News: Radio

The Whiteman Years This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

The Whiteman Years This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

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, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also ...


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