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Mabel Mercer

Champian Fulton: House Party

by Pierre Giroux
May 3, 2026

There are evenings when jazz truly finds its footing: social, spontaneous, and unguarded. House Party was recorded live in March 2025 at a producer's home for Turtle Bay Records, capturing one such moment. Pianist-vocalist Champian Fulton, joined by bassist Hide Tanaka and drummer Fukushi Tainaka, along with guest saxophonists Klas Lindquist and Cory Weeds, dispense with ...

Meet Ari (ImpressARIo) Silverstein

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
February 7, 2017

Some people are jazz aficionados. Then there's Ari Silverstein. Hooked from the moment he saw the light of jazz, was he content merely to listen? Not Impress-Ari-o! Once he was in, he was in all the way, from organizing concerts to getting his New York tour guide license in order to start shepherding tourists to his ...

A Night At Bricktop's This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

March 27, 2014

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 ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets Sung to a Jazz Beat

by Fradley Garner
December 7, 2012

Shakespeare's Sonnets Sung to a Jazz Beat“If music be the food of love, play on." And while you're at it, set 16 of Shakespeare's sonnets to music, and play and sing them to a jazz beat. Which, by my troth, is exactly what Caroll Vanwelden has done. The comely Belgian pianist wanted to produce ...

Bricktop’s Jazz In 1930s' Montmartre This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

September 27, 2012

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 ...

Riverwalk Jazz Presents "A Night at Bricktop's: Jazz in 1930s' Montmartre"

October 5, 2010

Beginning Thursday, October 7, Riverwalk Jazz, heard nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM, will present a special broadcast on Ada 'Bricktop' Smith, who played barkeep to the “Lost Generation" of international ex-patriots living in Paris in the 1930s. The broadcast will feature frequent guest singer/actors Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman, who offer narratives drawn from ...

The Art of Mabel Mercer

By Mabel Mercer

Label: Collectables
Released: 2002

Mabel Mercer: The Art of Mabel Mercer

by Craig Jolley
February 1, 2002

The music of Mabel Mercer, a gifted cabaret singer of the 1930's - 60's, is enjoying a resurgence in popularity with almost all of it now available on CD. The Art of Mabel Mercer presents her earliest commercial recordings made in her fifties. Mercer was not blessed with much voice (Late in her career she liked ...

Second Town Hall Concert

By Mabel Mercer

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1969