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Red Norvo: Four Classic Albums
by David Rickert
Red Norvo played the vibes while leading his own band during the swing era and grew into smaller groups in the forties and fifites once the practicality of leading a large ensemble became too much. He was one of the first to specialize of what has always been somewhat of an unusual instrument for jazz, but ...
Girl Singers Of The Swing Era This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to recall female singers of the Swing Era— from Ella and Billie to Martha Tilton, Ivie Anderson and Helen Humes. Also on our radio show, rare interview clips with Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Tilton and Helen Ward telling ...
Dick Hyman, Stephanie Nakasian On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
The historic Filoli Estate and Gardens south of San Francisco is the setting for this week’s Riverwalk Jazz broadcast, “Sweet Ballads and Red Hot Pianos." Piano legend Dick Hyman and jazz vocalist Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for an outdoor concert including a set of songs by composer Walter Donaldson. The program is ...
Girl Singers of the Swing Era on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to recall female singers of the Swing Era— from Ella and Billie to Martha Tilton, Ivie Anderson and Helen Humes. Also on our radio show, rare interview clips with Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Tilton and Helen Ward telling ...
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 ...
Mundell Lowe Quartet Live At The Saville Theater
by Robert Bush
Mundell Lowe Quartet Saville Theater, San Diego City College San Diego CA July 13, 2010 Tuesday night's affair was standing-room-only for the rare appearance by Mundell Lowe, an iconic figure in the annals of jazz history. Lowe cut his teeth as an improviser in the Roosevelt administration--that he ...
