Results for "Johnny Dodds"

Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 8, 2013

Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down.A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 opening ...

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: The Saxophone In Early New Orleans Jazz

January 17, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with saxophonists Kim Cusack, Vince Giordano, Brian Ogilvie and others to explore the music of early jazz saxophone masters. Our own Ron Hockett shows off his saxophone chops while his clarinet duties are covered by Allan Vaché and Evan Christopher. Bass saxophonist Vince Giordano ...

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: West Coast Classic Jazz In Concert

August 16, 2012

They called their music “The Truth"—real, righteous Traditional Jazz. By the early 1940s, its champions were the powerful West Coast brassmen Turk Murphy and Lu Watters. Disciples of “The Real Stuff" themselves, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band presents their concert tribute to The West Coast Classic Jazz Revival at the Stanford Jazz Festival in California, this ...

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of '26: Soundtrack Of The Jazz Age

June 7, 2012

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 ...

Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band at Royce Hall on December 29th

October 19, 2011

Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band will perform at Royce Hall on December 29 for one unforgettable night. Tickets go on sale Saturday, October 15 at 10:00 AM. For more than thirty-five years, Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band have been delighting audiences with a hot mix of New Orleans inspired music. ...

The Eccentric Genius of Jelly Roll Morton This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

October 6, 2011

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 ...

Stomp Stomp Stomp

Featuring the music of Johnny Dodds
Duration: 2:57
April 12, 2011

Piron's New Orleans Orchestra: Piron's New Orleans Orchestra

by Andrew J. Sammut
February 21, 2011

Listeners accustomed to the wail and stomp of early New Orleans jazz might be surprised to hear the whisper and glide of Piron's New Orleans Orchestra. While famed pioneers such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Johnny Dodds spoke from the earthy tradition of the outdoor parade, Piron's orchestra illustrated the smooth sounds of indoor entertainment. ...

Riverwalk Jazz Salutes Clarinet Pioneer Johnny Dodds This Week

February 3, 2011

Riverwalk Jazz this week pays tribute to first-generation jazzman and clarinet pioneer Johnny Dodds. Present-day New Orleans-based clarinet star Evan Christopher joins the Jim Cullum Jazz Band to perform Dodds classics like “Dippermouth Blues," “Melancholy Blues" and “Wild Man Blues." The program is distrubuted in the US by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius and can be ...

Riverwalk Jazz Presents "Clarinet Marmalade" this week on public radio

October 20, 2010

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a survey of the great pre-war voices of the jazz clarinet. For many Americans, their only experience with the clarinet has been through high school marching and concert bands that often use clarinet sections of up to ten players. Yet in the early half of the 20th Century, the clarinet was ...