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Bunk Johnson This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the traditional New Orleans improvised ensemble style of Bunk Johnson. We'll hear his stories, part fact and part fiction, brought to life by the award-winning Broadway actor and Riverwalk Jazz favorite, Vernel Bagneris. The weekly hour-long Riverwalk Jazz public radio series is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International ...
"Wizard of Oz" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Wizard of Oz comes to life as Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris portrays all the characters of Oz in a new script for radio based on the original L. Frank Baum book. And the brilliance of Harold Arlen's art as a songwriter is displayed in new jazz arrangements and performances by ...
Howard Alden, Marty Grosz on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band at The Landing in San Antonio for a show devoted to a trio of early jazz guitarists—Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang and Carl Kress. The show is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius ...
Riverwalk Jazz Celebrates Clark Terry's 90th Birthday
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we hear from Clark Terry on the occasion of his 90th birthday—December 14—and we listen to tunes from his days with the Basie and Ellington bands, recorded live at The Landing with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in the 1990s. Listeners will be treated to Clark's great sense of humor, the ...
Riverwalk Jazz on Producer John Hammond This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with guests Dick Hyman, Topsy Chapman, Harry Allen and others, explore the towering legacy of the man called “the most influential talent scout and music producer in history." Listen to interview clips of John Hammond with New York radio personality Ed Beach on his WRVR show, ...
This Week Riverwalk Jazz Breaks Bread in Thanksgiving
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we “break bread together" with songs in the spirit of Thanksgiving. New Orleans' Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, lending her soulful vocals to classic Spirituals and Gospel Hymns. And three legends of American music—trumpeters Clark Terry and “Sweets" Edison, and bass-baritone William Warfield—perform with the band and share ...
What's For Dinner? Riverwalk Jazz Cooks This Week
Louis Armstrong used to sign his letters, “Red Beans and Ricely Yours" and gave his jazz compositions titles like “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and “Cornet Chop Suey." This week Riverwalk Jazz cooks up a banquet for those who like their music hot. Also on the menu, stories about that “sweet spot" where food and jazz come ...
Swinging on the South Side: The Heartbeat of Chicago Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz (distributed nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM), vocalist Topsy Chapman, singer Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist {Dick Hyman}} join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the 'black and tans' of the '20s to the grand ballrooms of the '30s. Tony Jackson arrived ...
Jazz on the Barbary Coast on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
A century ago, San Francisco's Barbary Coast was a waterfront hub of loose living, dance- crazy club-goers and wild new music. The Barbary Coast had been notorious for fifty years before the 1906 earthquake, and within hours of the last trembler its saloons and whorehouses were open for business again. In a town settled by gold-seekers ...
Harry Allen in Zoot and Al Tribute on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
Beginning today, public radio's Riverwalk Jazz begins streaming “Zoot & Al: The Brotherhood of Prez." Featured on the program are Ron Hockett, the regular reedman in the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, and Harry Allen. Stream this show now in Windows Media. The late Gene Lees wrote: “Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect ...
