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San Antonio Swing Reborn on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week, Riverwalk Jazz revisits San Antonio's hot spots and revives hot dance music of the city's historic East Side in the 1930s. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band expands to a 12- piece orchestra, performing new arrangements of rarely heard Swing Era compositions from the Don Albert Orchestra and Boots and His Buddies. The weekly jazz ...
"Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz. A fast-talking, wisecracking Midwesterner, Condon epitomized Chicago Jazz. The show is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM Sattelite Radio and streamed worldwide from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Joining us this week is photographer, author and record producer Hank O'Neal, who collaborated ...
"Chicago's Jazz Age Melting Pot" this week on Riverwalk Jazz
Recalling the heady atmosphere of the great musical “melting pot" in Jazz Age Chicago, with a script based on historical and biographical written accounts and recordings, Riverwalk Jazz this week welcomes two frequent guests from New Orleans—the Obie award-winning actor and singer Vernel Bagneris and renowned blues singer Topsy Chapman—plus pianist Shelly Berg. By the 1920s, ...
Riverwalk Jazz presents William Warfield This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the late theater legend William Warfield joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in an encore presentation, combining Mr. Warfield's masterful readings of Langston Hughes' poems with musical selections by Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson. The hour-long radio show is distrubuted across the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on ...
Clarinet Great Kenny Davern This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with never-before- broadcast tracks featuring the great reedman Kenny Davern. The hour-long program is carried in the US on the Public Radio International network, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Kenny Davern was a kid when he first heard Pee ...
Texas Caceres Family Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week Riverwalk Jazz presents a tribute to the Texas musical legacy of the Caceres family. The show is distributed nationwide in the US by Public Radio International and worldwide on Sirius/XM as well as streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Hot jazz has always found a home in San Antonio. In the 1930s, Emilio ...
Riverwalk Jazz Explores the Jazz/Classical Connection This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band explores the frequent cross- pollination between European art music and swinging jazz. Included on the program: Dick Hyman and John Sheridan interpret Gershwin's “Prelude No.1" in a jazz treatment for two pianos. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performs a movement from an original composition for jazz ...
Riverwalk Jazz Salutes The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
In honor of National Women's History Month, Riverwalk Jazz this week presents a salute to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, the first racially-integrated “all-girl" jazz band in the country, featuring interviews with two surviving members of the band—trombonist Helen Jones Wood; and alto saxophonist Roz Cron. The radio series is carried nationally by Public Radio International ...
Salute to Women Composers This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Topsy Chapman, Carol Woods, Stephanie Nakasian and Rebecca Kilgore join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for A Woman's Touch, a concert of jazz standards composed by women. The weekly jazz show is carried nationwide on the air by Public Radio International, on XM/Sirius sattelite radio and streamed on-demand on the ...
Ben Pollack on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum Jazz Band drummer Hal Smith joins host David Holt to talk about Ben Pollack's often overlooked contribution to jazz. The show is heard on public radio stations nationwide, distributed by Public Radio International, and can also be heard on XM/Sirius sattelite radio and streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz ...
