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News: Radio

"Eddie Condon: Renaissance Man of Jazz" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

April 21, 2011

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

Anthony Branker & Word Play: Princeton, NJ, April 3, 2011

by Victor L. Schermer
April 17, 2011

Anthony Branker & Word PlayPaul Robeson Center for the ArtsSolley AuditoriumPrinceton, NJApril 3, 2011 Trumpeter Anthony Branker's Princeton, New Jersey concert--sponsored by The Princeton Council for the Arts, funded by Wachovia-Wells Fargo Bank, Bloomberg and other sources--was a musical gem set on the laconic, early spring day of ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Ed Puddick Big Band / Frank Macchia / Rick Wald NY 16

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2011

Ed Puddick Big Band Guys & Dolls Diving Duck Records 2010 The late Frank Loesser wrote at least 700 songs, more than a dozen of which are included in the score for the smash musical Guys and Dolls, which, believe it or not, opened on Broadway more than sixty years ...

News: Radio

Texas Caceres Family Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

March 24, 2011

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 ...

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Article: Big Band Caravan

Rick Holland–Evan Dobbins Little Big Band / Empire Jazz Orchestra / Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
March 6, 2011

The Rick Holland--Evan Dobbins Little Big BandTrilbyRPO Productions2010 Five years after a sensational opening act (In Time's Shadow, 2006), trumpeter Rick Holland and trombonist Evan Dobbins have returned for an encore, Trilby, marshaling as before their irrepressible Little Big Band. As was noted of that earlier recording, ...

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News: Radio

Ben Pollack on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

February 25, 2011

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gene Krupa

January 15, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Gene Krupa's birthday today! Gene KrupaGene Krupa - drums, bandleader, (1909 - 1973) Gene Krupa was easily one of the most colorful personalities of the big band era. Despite his outrageous stage persona... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow Gene Krupa ...

News: Radio

Riverwalk Jazz Class of '30: Surviving on a Song

January 8, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest artists Clark Terry, Vernel Bagneris and Nina Ferro celebrate the great popular songs and jazz created at the beginning of the Great Depression. The show also features an encore appearance by the late Kansas City piano great, Jay McShann. The show can be ...

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Article: Interview

Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2010

Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...

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News: Radio

Riverwalk Jazz on Producer John Hammond This Week

December 4, 2010

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 the man called “the most influential talent scout and music producer in history." Listen to interview clips of John Hammond with New York radio personality Ed Beach on his WRVR show, ...