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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Class Of 1930: Surviving On A Song
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the music that kept America swinging in the Great Depression with special guest vocalists Nina Ferro and Vernel Bagneris and a special appearance by blues legend Jay McShann. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can ...
Davey Payne: Ready To Play
by Sammy Stein
Davey Payne is known best for the time when he was saxophonist with British group, The Blockheads. His solo on the 1978 number 1 hit, “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" was the first time a double sax solo had appeared on a hit record. Before he joined forces with Dury, who fronted The ...
How (Not) To Listen To Early Jazz
by Andrew J. Sammut
Jazz listeners may admit that early music got things to where they are now, similar to how the Model T made the Lamborghini possible. Most just prefer not to drive anything too old. For most listeners, early jazz remains an esoteric and even a strange experience. Perhaps it's all that monochromatic footage of ...
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 ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Red Nichols
This week on Riverwalk Jazz the Jim Cullum Jazz Band tells the story of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, illustrated with numerous historical recordings of Nichols and the ensembles he led. 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 ...
Clarinetist Dave Bennett Featured This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, youthful clarinetist Dave Bennett joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to sample music from the long career of his main inspiration, Benny Goodman. With clarinetist Ron Hockett, Dave explores classics of “chamber jazz" that Goodman recorded with his small groups—"Avalon," “Runnin' Wild," “I Got Rhythm," and “Tiger Rag." Dave is one ...
The Boswell Sisters: The Boswell Sisters Collection
by Chris Mosey
This magnificent boxed set of five CDs and one DVD represents the entire commercially released recorded output of the Boswell Sisters, the most popular and influential close harmony vocal group ever. They were white, but lead singer Connie-- she later changed the spelling to Connee--sang black. Ella Fitzgerald, when she was starting out, said her aim ...
Bugle Call Rag
Featuring the music of Red Nichols
Duration: 3:17
Red Nichols: The Red Heads
by Andrew J. Sammut
Red NicholsThe Red HeadsJazz Oracle2003 If you play on your own terms for small audiences without any recognition, you're a hero; if you do it while earning a steady paycheck and selling plenty of records, you're a sell-out. Or so it might seem for Ernest Loring “Red" ...
