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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Saxophone In Early New Orleans Jazz

January 17, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with saxophonists Kim Cusack, Vince Giordano, Brian Ogilvie and others to explore the music of early jazz saxophone masters. Our own Ron Hockett shows off his saxophone chops while his clarinet duties are covered by Allan Vaché and Evan Christopher. Bass saxophonist Vince Giordano ...

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Paris Jazz Diary 2012

by Patricia Myers
December 31, 2012

Paris is the New York City of the European jazz world. Any night of the week, live jazz is played somewhere in this multicultural metropolis where America's global gift is valued, venerated and celebrated. There are more than 30 live jazz venues, as well as sporadic and spontaneous performances on street corners and bridges, in Metro ...

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Holding the Torch For Liberty

By Eli Yamin

Label: The Jazz Drama Program
Released: 2012
Track listing: Newsgirl Rag Don’t Go Back On Your Raisin’ (Piano Solo) Factory Dance New York Harbor-Comet’s Arrival The Roar of the Wild Boar Newsgirl Rag II Factory Dance II It’s the Way That You Talk What Is America? Don’t Go Back On Your Raisin’ What Is America? (Blues) What Is America? (Habanera) Wild Cat Strut Cuban Love Song Flame Dance Newsgirl Rag III Don’t Go Back On Your Raisin’ (Reprise) What Is America? (Finale)

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Newport Jazz Festival 2012

by Dan Bilawsky
August 17, 2012

Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 3-5, 2012 While countless jazz festivals have sprung up in all corners of the world, droves of people still flock to the one that's considered the granddaddy of them all. The Newport Jazz Festival has been a testament to the power, possibilities and ...

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Newport Jazz Festival: Newport, RI, August 4, 2012

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 17, 2012

Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 4, 2012 “Yeah that's what I'm talking about, Newport!" the bright-smiled Cuban conga player said with enthusiasm, as the crowd he encouraged to dance clapped a beat to his liking. Amid the vortex of sound that is the Newport Jazz Festival--three stages hosting ...

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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Test Of Time: A Century Of Song

July 26, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band gives the “hot rhythm treatment” to rags, parlor songs and spirituals composed a century or more ago. From Jack Norworth’s “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” to Kerry Mills' Cakewalk “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” and Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” we’ll explore the roots ...

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Jim Cullum Jazz Band At Stanford Jazz Workshop This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

June 28, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band presents a collection of early jazz classics from New Orleans and beyond. It's a summer concert captured live at the Stanford Jazz Workshop with Evan Christopher on clarinet. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band brings a fresh approach to its classic repertoire in nightly performances in San ...

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Sidney Bechet Tribute This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 10, 2012

The largely self-taught New Orleans reedman Sidney Bechet developed one of the most distinctive solo voices in jazz. Unlike Louis Armstrong, Bechet never achieved stardom in the United States. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway’s Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and reedman Bob Wilber to explore Bechet's musical legacy. The program is distributed ...

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Tribute to Red Allen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

November 17, 2011

This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to Henry 'Red' Allen, one of the last great trumpeters to come out of New Orleans in the 1920s. Joining the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand at The Landing in San Antonio are Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Clint Baker, New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher, New York clarinet legend Kenny ...

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Tom McDermott / Evan Christopher: Almost Native

Read "Almost Native" reviewed by Louis Heckheimer

by Louis Heckheimer
November 12, 2011

Avant-garde art has been described as seeking innovation through experimentation, preferring novelty to formula and defying existing convention. The term “avant-garde traditionalism" could be a way to describe the music of New Orleans pianist Tom McDermott. Although it is rooted in the traditions of his adopted city, he pushes boundaries with his quirky compositions and interest ...