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Howard Alden, Marty Grosz on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, two contemporary giants of jazz guitar, Marty Grosz and Howard Alden, join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band at The Landing in San Antonio for a show devoted to a trio of early jazz guitarists—Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang and Carl Kress. The show is distributed nationwide by Public Radio International and XM/Sirius ...
Riverwalk Jazz Celebrates Clark Terry's 90th Birthday
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we hear from Clark Terry on the occasion of his 90th birthday—December 14—and we listen to tunes from his days with the Basie and Ellington bands, recorded live at The Landing with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in the 1990s. Listeners will be treated to Clark's great sense of humor, the ...
Riverwalk Jazz on Producer John Hammond This Week
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with guests Dick Hyman, Topsy Chapman, Harry Allen and others, explore the towering legacy of the man called “the most influential talent scout and music producer in history." Listen to interview clips of John Hammond with New York radio personality Ed Beach on his WRVR show, ...
Riverwalk Jazz Interviews Nat Hentoff
Author and columnist Nat Hentoff is one of America's most revered commentators on jazz. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, host David Holt caught up with the 85-year-old at his home in Greenwich Village to talk about the people and personalities covered in his new book, At the Jazz Band Ball: Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene. ...
This Week Riverwalk Jazz Breaks Bread in Thanksgiving
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, we “break bread together" with songs in the spirit of Thanksgiving. New Orleans' Topsy Chapman joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, lending her soulful vocals to classic Spirituals and Gospel Hymns. And three legends of American music—trumpeters Clark Terry and “Sweets" Edison, and bass-baritone William Warfield—perform with the band and share ...
What's For Dinner? Riverwalk Jazz Cooks This Week
Louis Armstrong used to sign his letters, “Red Beans and Ricely Yours" and gave his jazz compositions titles like “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" and “Cornet Chop Suey." This week Riverwalk Jazz cooks up a banquet for those who like their music hot. Also on the menu, stories about that “sweet spot" where food and jazz come ...
This Week on Riverwalk Jazz:Time-Tripping Back to 1929
Beginning Thursday, October 28, the weekly Riverwalk Jazz public radio series will broadcast a show called Class of '29: Jazz on the Move from Chicago to New York. The show can be heard on public radio stations nationwide (check local listings), on XM/Sirius sattelite radio on Sundays, and streamed directly from the Riverwalk Jazz website here. ...
Riverwalk Jazz Presents "A Night at Bricktop's: Jazz in 1930s' Montmartre"
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 ...
"Class of '39" This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
Riverwalk Jazz this week offers a musical snapshot of 1939, a year that produced some of the greatest motion pictures, jazz recordings, and songwriting of the 20th century. Stream this hour-long show now in its entirety in Windows Media. Musical guests for this show (in encore appearances) include piano legend Dick Hyman, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, the ...
Jazz on the Barbary Coast on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
A century ago, San Francisco's Barbary Coast was a waterfront hub of loose living, dance- crazy club-goers and wild new music. The Barbary Coast had been notorious for fifty years before the 1906 earthquake, and within hours of the last trembler its saloons and whorehouses were open for business again. In a town settled by gold-seekers ...
