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Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
by Enrico Bettinello
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippoldt & Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 pagine ISBN: 978-3836545013 Taschen 2014 Poco più che trentacinquenne, l'illustratore tedesco Robert Nippoldt ha la capacità di fare sognare. Con un tratto semplice e incisivo, ma al tempo stesso profumato di nostalgia, si ...
Bobby Broom: My Shining Hour
by Jack Bowers
Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom's Shining Hour encompasses nearly an hour of “Sweet and Lovely" trio jazz, showcasing seven memorable tunes from the Great American Songbook complemented by pair of three-steps, Fats Waller's “Jitterbug Waltz" and the Patti Page evergreen, “Tennessee Waltz." Besides the songs mentioned above, Broom's working trio (bassist Dennis Carroll, drummer ...
Steve Wilson/Lewis Nash: Duologue
by Dan Bilawsky
Saxophone and drum duos aren't as rare as some might believe, but a good percentage of such encounters are challenging, left-leaning affairs. John Coltrane's edgy encounters with Rashied Ali on Interstellar Space (Impulse!, 1974) emboldened many in the so-called avant-garde to marry these instruments time and again over the ensuing decades, yet few centrists seem as ...
Class Of '29 This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we follow the year 1929 in music, from Harlem cabarets to Broadway shows, to Hollywood movies and jazz recordings. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. In 1929, jazz ...
The Fats Waller Bluebird Sessions This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week our radio show explores the Fats Waller Bluebird Sessions. Joining The Jim Cullum Jazz Band are master pianist Dick Hyman and Portland-based vocalist Rebecca Kilgore. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. ...
Art Tatum: Trio Days
by Marc Davis
I was wrong. I like Art Tatum. But in a slightly different way. My introduction to Art Tatum, many years ago, was a series of solo piano albums. They left me cold. No question, the man was gifted beyond belief. He could play faster, more accurately and with a greater sense of ...
20th Anniversary Revisited This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
On Memorial Day Weekend 1989, Riverwalk Jazz made its national debut. This week, to celebrate over twenty years on the air, we revisit our first national broadcast, a program with piano legend Dick Hyman devoted to Fats Waller. Since that first national broadcast, Dick Hyman has joined us for so many radio shows that we sometimes ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Fats Waller
All About Jazz is celebrating Fats Waller's birthday today! Jazz music\'s first organist and one of the giants of piano jazz Thomas Wright “Fats" Waller was born on May 21, 1904 in Harlem into a musical family. His grandfather was an accomplished violinist and his mother was the church organist. His family had moved to New ...
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
by Nenad Georgievski
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippold, Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 ISBN: 3836545012 Taschen 2013 The period in the 1920's America is known as the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties. The history books say that this decade after the WWI was a prosperous ...
Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man Of Jazz This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz: photographer, author and record producer Hank O’Neal, who collaborated on Eddie Condon’s Scrapbook of Jazz talks about the Condon legacy. Eddie’s daughter Maggie Condon shares her wealth of memories. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows ...
