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Swingin' On A V-Disc This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz it's the story of the V-Disc, a WWII morale-boosting recording initiative that created novel collaborations between jazz artists of the era. By September 1945, total production reached 4.5 million records. By the end of the program, it is estimated that more than 8 million V-Discs were distributed. The Jim Cullum Jazz ...
Scott Yanow On Jazz Films This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
Get the popcorn ready.The curtain is about to go up on Kid Ory—Lionel Hampton—and Louis Armstrong. This week, we take a look at some of the world’s top jazz artists—who not only provided music for Hollywood movies—but appear on the silver screen as well. Scott Yanow, author of Jazz on Film, joins David Holt in the ...
New Release from Louis Armstrong "Satchmo At Symphony Hall 65th Anniversary" On Hip-O Select / Verve
Louis Armstrong, a.k.a. “Satchmo,” is an American icon. Satchmo At Symphony Hall, recorded in 1947 and first issued on Decca in 1951, captured one of his greatest performances, for which a legendary edition of his All Stars band joined him, with Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Dick Cary, Arvell Shaw, Big Sid Catlett and singer Velma Middleton. ...
Anat Cohen: Claroscuro
by Dan Bilawsky
Art begets art on Anat Cohen's Claroscuro. The Israeli-born, New York-based multi-reedist leaves the confines of Benny Goodman's world behind, following her clarinet-only sojourn into king of swing territory, Clarinetwork: Live At The Village Vanguard (Anzic, 2010), with a wide-ranging musical treatise on the balance between light and dark. Cohen addresses each end of the color ...
Duduka Da Fonseca: The Guy From Ipanema
by R.J. DeLuke
The 1950s into the early 1960s was a special period in Brazil, the land of beautiful beaches, picturesque mountains and the home of a warm, inviting and sensuous music called samba that was developed during those years. It was also a time when bossa nova, another sumptuous musical style, was spawned. The music invades the senses ...
Salute To San Antonio Bandleader Don Albert This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—augmented by five horn players—takes the stage of the Jo Long Theatre at San Antonio’s Carver Cultural Center to re-create the sounds of the territory bands of the '30s and San Antonio swing. Much of this music has not been heard in 70 years or more. In ...
James Cammack: Where You At?
by Ian Patterson
Oftentimes, it's only the passing of time that can offer true perspective. In years to come, bassist James Cammack may look back on 2012 as the year when--after over 30 years in the business--he truly began his musical adventure in earnest. After 29 years playing bass in the ensembles of piano legend Ahmad Jamal, Cammack was, ...
Hugh Laurie & The Copper Bottom Band: New York, NY, September 10, 2012
by Mike Perciaccante
Hugh Laurie & The Copper Bottom Band The Grand Ballroom At Manhattan Center New York, New York September 10, 2012 There was a palpable feeling of excited anticipation in the air as the audience filed into New York City's Manhattan Center--Hugh Laurie, known to many as the irrepressible Dr. Gregory ...
Bricktop’s Jazz In 1930s' Montmartre This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actors Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and the Hot Club of San Francisco give us a musical tour of Paris in the '30s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio ...
"Let's Talk Jazz" With Gary Giddins On Riverwalk Jazz This Week
Film critic Richard Schickel wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “We see our culture more clearly because of [Gary Giddins’] force, intelligence and alertness to overlooked detail.” Giddins is our guest this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand ...


