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Ellington's 3-minute Masterpieces This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest Dick Hyman present a program of jewel-like short jazz pieces from the Duke Ellington repertoire. Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris brings to life scenes from Ellington's legendary life in first-person accounts. Other guests include New Orleans singer Topsy Chapman, trumpeters Nicholas Payton and Clark ...
The Eccentric Genius of Jelly Roll Morton This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for “Wild Man Blues," a musical biography based on personal diaries of Jelly Roll Morton. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on- demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. One ...
Austin's Young & Hot on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
Residents of Austin, Texas are proud that their city boasts more live music venues than any other, including New York and Las Vegas. Austin music fans can choose between a wide variety of styles and genres—from Texas swing and bluegrass to a thriving cohort of traditional hot jazz. Our special guest artists on this week's Riverwalk ...
Clarinetist Dave Bennett Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, youthful clarinetist Dave Bennett joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to sample music from the long career of his main inspiration, Benny Goodman. With clarinetist Ron Hockett, Dave explores classics of “chamber jazz" that Goodman recorded with his small groups—"Avalon," “Runnin' Wild," “I Got Rhythm," and “Tiger Rag." Dave is one ...
Butterbeans & Susie Vaudeville Cabaret This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, on Riverwalk Jazz, the comic interplay between Butterbeans and Susie is brought to life by Broadway's Vernel Bagneris and acclaimed jazz vocalist Topsy Chapman. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band provides a musical backdrop steeped in jazz and blues of black vaudeville of the '20s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio ...
Riverwalk Jazz Archive Finds Permanent Home at Stanford University Libraries
Stanford's Celebrated Archive of Recorded Sound to provide continuous stream of Jim Cullum's radio programs beginning 2013. “Fans will be able to view an extensive collection of Riverwalk Jazz ephemera like, posters, photos, behind the scenes broadcast elements and artist correspondence at the Library and listen to the entire collection online beginning 2013 and for generations ...
The Music of President Lester Young This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman paint a picture of Lester Young's life based on his own first-person accounts and those of musicians who knew him. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, with tenor saxophonists Brian Ogilvie and Ron Hockett, offer their homage to the “President of Tenor Sax." The program is distributed ...
Battle of the Bands This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents an epic battle of the bands between The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and Banu Gibson's Hot Jazz from New Orleans. The battle, captured for our broadcast, took place in 1994 at the Zaragoza Theater at the Fiesta Texas Park in San Antonio Stage legend William Warfield acted as referee. Tap dancing ...
Hoagy Carmichael's Music This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes piano legend Dick Hyman and vocalist Stephanie Nakasian for a concert of Hoagy Carmichael's music, recorded live at the historic Filoli Gardens near San Francisco. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk ...
Louis Armstrong's Official Birthday on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Broadway's Vernel Bagneris reads excerpts from Hentoff and Shapiro's Hear Me Talkin' To Ya and joins Jim Cullum and the Band on Louis Armstrong classics like “I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and “Swing That Music" and a lesser-known number, “Too Busy." The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performs seldom-heard classics ...
