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Gennett Records This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to a ragtag recording studio in rural Richmond, Indiana that between 1922 and 1928 became a focal point for a hot jazz revolution. Gennett Records was the first record company to record significant black artists like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, as well as white jazz pioneers ...
"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 ...
Topsy Chapman, Clark Terry Celebrate Thanksgiving On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we “break bread together” with songs in the spirit of Thanksgiving. New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, lending her soulful vocals to classic Spirituals and Gospel hymns. Three legends of American music—trumpeters Clark Terry, “Sweets” Edison and bass-baritone William Warfield—perform with the band and share heartfelt and ...
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 ...
The Peck Kelley Story On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
Peck Kelley is an iconic figure among jazz musicians, but remains virtually unknown outside a small circle of aficionados. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to tell the story of Peck Kelley and revive the East Texas hot jazz of Peck’s Bad Boys. The broadcast offers listeners ...
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 ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Wizard Of Oz With Vernel Bagneris
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes to life as Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris portrays all the characters of Oz in a new script for radio based on the original L. Frank Baum book. The brilliance of Harold Arlen’s art as a songwriter is displayed in new jazz arrangements and performances by ...
Songwriting Bandleaders Of The Swing Era This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalist and Arbors recording artist Rebecca Kilgore joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate Songwriting Bandleaders of the Swing Era with music by Ray Noble, Isham Jones, Artie Shaw and Duke Ellington. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Great Innovator---benny Goodman
Benny Goodman, the clarinet virtuoso from Chicago, became a central figure of the Swing Era and popularized the jazz form with a worldwide audience in the 1930s and beyond. To celebrate Goodman’s innovative style, Riverwalk Jazz has assembled performances and stories from our stable of jazz greats drawn into his orbit—Lionel Hampton, Doc Cheatham, Helen Ward—and ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Battle Of The Bands With Banu Gibson, Savion Glover & William Warfield
Riverwalk Jazz this week presents an old-fashioned Battle of the Bands pitting the Jim Cullum Jazz Band against Banu Gibson and her New Orleans Hot Jazz. 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 ...
