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Riverwalk Jazz Class of '30: Surviving on a Song
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 ...
Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz
by Chris May
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...
Retta Christie with David Evans and David Frishberg: Volumes 1 and 2
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Retta Christie exists at the curious intersection of country & western, swing and film music. Country music and jazz may seem strange bedfellows, but bedfellows they have been since the 1920s and bandleaders Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, Jay McShann and Count Basie all slumming together in Great Plains dance halls. It is from this ...
Vic Damon, 30th Street Studio, Village Vanguard
by Sean Dietrich
The oft forgotten recording studio. It's humble presence remains under-acclaimed. Electric lights suspended high above a giant mess of cables. Omniscient microphones standing tall, appraising the heart of arrogant musicians who approach. Scribbled papers rest on music stands, while heated brawls are incubated among hot headed horn players. This is where music is born. And yet ...
For the Grand Prize: April Is . . . ?
by Jack Bowers
Did you know that April is Jazz Appreciation Month? Neither did I until I chanced upon a press release to that effect. According to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Jazz website, there are “celebrations in all 50 states and 40 countries." If I'm not mistaken, New Mexico is one of those 50 states, and no one here ...
Masters of American Music Series: Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The Story of Jazz Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk: American Composer The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2010 These four DVDs--separate broadcasts of the Masters of American Music TV series, originally released in eighties--seem by today's standards, like some ...
Betty Bryant: No Regrets
by Dee Dee McNeil
Fondly referred to as the “Cool Miss B," Betty Bryant is a native of Kansas City who relocated to Los Angeles in 1955. One of a thimble full of stalwart female pianists and vocal stylists, Bryant packed the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood in November, 2009 to celebrate the release of her appropriately titled No Regrets ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann
All About Jazz is celebrating Jay McShann's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jay McShannJay McShann-piano, composer, recording artist, bandleader (1916-2006) “The Last of the Blue Devils” Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie... more
In Copenhagen
By Jay McShann
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: After Hours, Take 1; Kansas City Blues; How Long Blues; The Staggers; Vognporten Boogie; Ace In The Hole; Yardbird Waltz; Man From Muskogee; Diblin' And Dablin'; Fore Day Rider; T'aint Nobody's Business; Doo-Wah-Doo; Hot Biscuits; Cherry Red; Jumpin' With McShann; After Hours, Take 2.
