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News: Radio

Salute to Women Composers This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

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 ...

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Eddie Condon 1927-1964

Label: Repertoire Records
Released: 2010

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News: Radio

Howard Alden, Marty Grosz on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Howard Alden, Marty Grosz on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band at The Landing in San Antonio for a show devoted to a trio of early jazz guitarists—Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang and Carl Kress. The show is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius ...

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News: Radio

Swinging on the South Side: The Heartbeat of Chicago Jazz

Swinging on the South Side: The Heartbeat of Chicago Jazz

This week on Riverwalk Jazz (distributed nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM), vocalist Topsy Chapman, singer Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist {Dick Hyman}} join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the 'black and tans' of the '20s to the grand ballrooms of the '30s. Tony Jackson arrived ...

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Article: Album Review

Philip Larkin: Larkin's Jazz

Read "Larkin's Jazz" reviewed by Chris May


The author of the immortal opening couplet, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad/They may not mean to, but they do," the poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) was in 2008 voted “the greatest British writer" of the last half century by the readers of The Times. No longer the newspaper of record it was in the ...

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News: Obituary

Vic Lewis (1919-2009)

Vic Lewis (1919-2009)

Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...

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Midnight in Moscow/The Roaring Twenties

Label: Collectables
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Meadowlands 2. Dark Eyes 3. Theme From Swan Lake 4. Hindustan 5. The Japanese Sandman 6. Loch Lomond 7. Londonberry Air 8. La Via En Rose 9. The Sheik of Araby 10. Midnight In Moscow 11. Wolverine Blues 12. Chimes Blues 13. Put

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Jam Session Coast To Coast/Jammin' at Condon's

Label: Collectables
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc One: 1. Beale Street Blues 2. Emaline/Don't Worry 'Bout Me/I Can't Give You Anything but Love 3. Riverboat Shuffle 4. Jam Session Blues/Ole Miss 5. (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue 6. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll 7. Ja-Da 8. The Sheik of Araby 9. Squeeze Me 10. South Rampart Street Parade. Disc Two: 1. There'll Be Some Changes Made 2. How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 3. Blues My Naughty Sweety Gave Me 4. Tin Roof Blues 5. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street

Album

Bixieland/Treasury of Jazz

Label: Collectables
Released: 2003

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Article: Album Review

Eddie Condon: Jam Session Coast To Coast/Jammin

Read "Jam Session Coast To Coast/Jammin" reviewed by David Rickert


The biggest obstacle with the 78 format was its running time; what solos were allowed had to be brief and only crudely approximated the energy generated during a live performance. Thus Eddie Condon must have welcomed the LP era, which allowed him to indulge in the lengthy jam sessions allowed in clubs and concert halls. The ...


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