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Ben Pollack on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum Jazz Band drummer Hal Smith joins host David Holt to talk about Ben Pollack's often overlooked contribution to jazz. The show is heard on public radio stations nationwide, distributed by Public Radio International, and can also be heard on XM/Sirius sattelite radio and streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz ...
Bass Pioneer Pops Foster This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans bass pioneer George “Pops" Foster tells his own story in rare archival interviews. Actor Vernel Bagneris portrays Pops in scenes from his autobiography. The show can be heard beginning today on public radio stations nationwide, distributed by Public Radio International; on Sirius/XM sattelite radio; and streamed on demand from ...
Ebony Love Songs This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
To honor Black History Month, this week Riverwalk Jazz and The Jim Cullum Jazz Band take note of Valentine's Day with songs created by the first black composers to turn out love songs for mainstream America via Broadway, Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley. The program is distributed by Public Radio International, XM/Sirius sattelite radio and can ...
Riverwalk Jazz Salutes Clarinet Pioneer Johnny Dodds This Week
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 ...
Rare Gems of Bix Beiderbecke on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
On public radio this week, Riverwalk Jazz explores cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's gift for music and his place in jazz history. One of the first major soloists to emerge in jazz, Beiderbecke is considered by many to be the first to start playing and recording ballads in a jazz context. Jazz historian, bandleader and bass saxophonist Vince ...
Gary Giddins on Bing and Louis This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 shares a look into the life-long friendship between Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. The hour-long radio presentation is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on satellite radio by Sirius/XM and streamed worldwide from the Riverwalk Jazz ...
Bunk Johnson This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band celebrates the traditional New Orleans improvised ensemble style of Bunk Johnson. We'll hear his stories, part fact and part fiction, brought to life by the award-winning Broadway actor and Riverwalk Jazz favorite, Vernel Bagneris. The weekly hour-long Riverwalk Jazz public radio series is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International ...
Riverwalk Jazz Class of '30: Surviving on a Song
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest artists Clark Terry, Vernel Bagneris and Nina Ferro celebrate the great popular songs and jazz created at the beginning of the Great Depression. The show also features an encore appearance by the late Kansas City piano great, Jay McShann. The show can be ...
"Wizard of Oz" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Wizard of Oz comes to life as Broadway actor Vernel Bagneris portrays all the characters of Oz in a new script for radio based on the original L. Frank Baum book. And the brilliance of Harold Arlen's art as a songwriter is displayed in new jazz arrangements and performances by ...
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Well, how about tuning into Riverwalk Jazz from The Landing in San Antonio? The show will be broadcast on public radio stations nationwide (check local listings) as well as Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed from riverwalkjazz.org beginning today. We've got vocalist Topsy Chapman, a New Orleans native known for her role in the long- ...
