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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of '26: Soundtrack Of The Jazz Age
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, piano legend Dick Hyman, actor/playwright Vernel Bagneris, guitarist/singer/raconteur Marty Grosz, cornetist Bob Barnard and fiddler Andy Stein join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the Class of '26: The Soundtrack of the Jazz Age. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and ...
Ehud Asherie with Harry Allen: Upper West Side
by Dan Bilawsky
The closing track on pianist Ehud Asherie's Modern Life (Posi-Tone, 2010), whether intentional or not, came to serve as musical foreshadowing for this album. Modern Life has Asherie leading a crack quartet through a program of largely lesser-performed gems by cream-of-the-crop composers like George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Tadd Dameron, but when the album reaches its ...
Alex Diaz: Beyond 145th Street
by James Nadal
Merengue, the national music of the Dominican Republic ferociously driven by percussive provincial rhythms such as pambiche, perico ripiao, el maco, guinchao and palo, is the natural choice for conga master Alex Diaz to blend his native roots with jazz improvisation in Beyond 145th Street . Diaz and featured saxophonist Ivan Renta continue ...
Chris McNulty: A Siren From Down Under
by Ludwig vanTrikt
Chris McNulty emigrated to New York City, from her native home in Melbourne, Australia, in 1988. Since then she's released five recordings, with Waltz For Debby (Discovery, 1991) first introducing the Australian singer to American audiences. On that record, she wrote what would ultimately become the official, published lyrics to Miles Davis' classic Blue in Green." ...
Marialy Pacheco: Songs That I Love
by Ian Patterson
For her third solo album, and first for Australian label Pinnacles Music, Cuban pianist Marialy Pacheco follows her truest muse--the songs closest to her heart. It follows that the eight tracks--Cuban compositions, two by Jerome Kern, two originals, and one by Paul Simon--were recorded with minimum fuss in just three hours. Consequently, these performances have a ...
Jan Johansson: In Hamburg with Georg Riedel
by Ian Patterson
Jan JohanssonIn Hamburg with Georg RiedelACT Music2011 The small number of posthumous releases in the 42 years since the death of Swedish jazz pianist/composer Jan Johansson at the age of 37 remains something of a mystery. Johansson--who pianist Esbjorn Svensson described as being a very, very big influence--has ...
Clifford Brown: With Strings
by Chris May
Clifford BrownWith StringsEmarcy1955 Recordings setting soloists alongside string ensembles were not a staple of the bop years, but, when trumpeter Clifford Brown recorded With Strings, he had two illustrious predecessors. In 1946, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded four Jerome Kern standards with an ensemble arranged by Johnny Richards. ...
Colin Stranahan / Glenn Zaleski / Rick Rosato: Anticipation
by Florence Wetzel
The piano-bass-drum trio format is a classic configuration in jazz, and with good reason: given the right musicians, this particular combination of instruments forms a perfect sonic triangle. As the jazz world mourns the November 2011 death of drummer Paul Motian--a member of pianist Bill Evans's paradigm-shifting trio, along with gifted bassist Scott LaFaro--it's good to ...
William Warfield in Show Boat This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, William Warfield is heard in an encore presentation joining The Jim Cullum Jazz Band as narrator in a 1995 production of Show Boat, combining the Band's original jazz transcription of the Kern score with a script based on the Ferber novel. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio ...
Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach: Unspoken
by John Kelman
Dave Liebman / Richie Beirach Unspoken OutNote Records 2011 It's one thing for individual artists' voices to be instantly recognizable, another thing entirely when a readily identifiable language evolves amongst them, one that's absent when they're apart. There's no mistaking the bop-rooted expressionism that saxophonist Dave Liebman imbues with oblique lyricism, ...


