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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Great Innovator---benny Goodman

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 ...

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Sophisticated Ladies And Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Sophisticated Ladies And Red Hot Mommas This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans’ Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to separate “sophisticated ladies" from “red-hot mommas." Heart-breakers, man-takers, vamps, tramps and the girl next door—through the decades they’ve all shown up in song. Songwriters are forever trying to decipher the feminine mystique, and singers never tire of crooning about the ...


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