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Jazz Music Is Ecstatic Language
by David Arivett
Leonardo DaVinci once said, “Do you know that our souls are composed of music?" Music and religion are intimately linked, and music is one of the most powerful tools to convey religious meaning. As human beings, we have been given the gift of musical language which can help transform us from our humdrum, everyday existence, into ...
Claudio Sessa: Improvviso singolare
by Maurizio Zerbo
Improvviso singolare Claudio Sessa 143 Pagine ISBN: 978-8862317689 Il Saggiatore 2015 543 pp. Claudio Sessa è uno dei più originali storici italiani dell'estetica jazzistica. Lo dimostra emblematicamente questo libro, destinato a lasciare un segno indelebile sulla letteratura jazzistica. L'autorevolezza e l'acume critico portano l'autore a scrivere pagine ...
Legends At The Landing This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
Jazz Appreciation Month brings out our appreciation for three legends of jazz as we welcome our first inductees into the Riverwalk Jazz Hall of Fame. Our Most Valued Players are trumpeter Doc Cheatham, bassist and composer Bob Haggart and vocalist Joe Williams. Adophus “Doc" Cheatham (1905-1997) was a walking encyclopedia of jazz history. He rubbed shoulders ...
Guitarists Marty Grosz And Howard Alden This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a show devoted to pioneers of jazz guitar: Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough and Django Reinhardt. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz; New Orleans Jazz Pioneers And Their Legacy
In the early 1960s cornetist Jim Cullum was a young man in his 20s. He made a pilgrimage to New Orleans to explore the roots of jazz, meet jazz greats and sit in on jam sessions. This week on Riverwalk Jazz Jim recalls a jam session with cornetist Johnny Wiggs and Mardi Gras parades when he ...
The Luis Russell Story This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents the musical legacy of the great 1920s bandleader Luis Russell as his daughter, the magnificent vocalist Catherine Russell joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with Dick Hyman on piano. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows ...
The Rise And Fall Of Joe "King" Oliver This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week’s Riverwalk Jazz broadcast is an encore presentation featuring theater legend William Warfield. In a performance recorded in 1992, Mr. Warfield brings Joe King Oliver’s rich correspondence to life. Also,The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with two leading lights of the traditional jazz scene—Bay Area-based cornetist Leon Oakley and Chicago-based tuba player Mike Walbridge—to ...
Gennett Records This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to a ragtag recording studio in rural Richmond, Indiana that between 1922 and 1928 became a focal point for a hot jazz revolution. Gennett Records was the first record company to record significant black artists like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, as well as white jazz pioneers ...
Tribute To Henry "Red" Allen This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to Henry ‘Red’ Allen, one of the last great trumpeters to come out of New Orleans in the 1920s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on ...
Concord Original jazz Classics Remasters: Monk, Evans, Adderley, Montgomery, Baker and More
Concord Music Group will release five new titles in its Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on July 23, 2013. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, several bonus tracks on nearly each disc (some previously unreleased) and new liner notes providing historical context to the original material, the series celebrates the 60th anniversary of Riverside Records, ...
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