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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sidney Bechet
All About Jazz is celebrating Sidney Bechet's birthday today! Along with his fellow New Orleanian, Louis Armstrong, Bechet was one of the first great soloists in jazz. His throaty, powerful clarinet and his throbbing soprano are among the most thrilling sounds in early jazz. He went from being a pioneer of jazz in the 1920s to ...
Jazz Vocals April
by C. Michael Bailey
Writer's note: Music writing is an avocation. It is not what I do for a living. It exists as that undertaking I do for the satisfaction of possibly educating others about this single essential art. But the reality is I have less and less time to write. As a result, I am limiting my writing to ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Clarinet Marmalade
This week on Riverwalk Jazz The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers an exploration of great pre-WWII voices of jazz clarinet with the help of prominent contemporary exponents of the “old school." Evan Christopher, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern and Ken Peplowski perform with the Band and talk about their mentors and influences. The program is distributed in ...
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell
by C. Michael Bailey
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell Francis Paudras 355 Pages ISBN: # 0-306-80816-1 Da Capo Press 1998 Pianist Earl Randolph “Bud" Powell (1924-1966) is one of jazz's brightest stars and most tragic figures. The new millennium has enjoyed a renewed interest in Powell, his life and ...
A Night At Bricktop's 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 ...
Double Trio De Clarinettes: Itineraire Bis
by Vic Albani
Benedetti da alcuni illuminati nomi che gestiscono cose importanti del jazz europeo (vedi Philippe Ochem, direttore del Jazz d'Or festival di Strasburgo, Armand Meignan, direttore del festival di Le Mans, Frank Baumann del Goethe Institut di Minsk, l'Istituto di cultura francese dello stesso centro e altri nomi dello stesso calibro) nascono di tanto in tanto progetti ...
A Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the music of songwriters Vincent Youmans, Johnny Green and Harry Barris. Special guests Shelly Berg and Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on piano and Topsy Chapman, Marty Grosz and Carol Woods handle the vocals. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM ...
Jim Cullum Jazz Band Live From Stanford This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band presents a collection of early jazz classics from New Orleans and beyond. It's a summer concert captured live at the Stanford Jazz Workshop with Evan Christopher on clarinet. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band brings a fresh approach to its classic repertoire. The program is distributed in ...
Jim Cullum Hosts Austin's Finest This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum welcomes Austin’s top young traditional jazz artists—guitarist/violinist Erik Hokkanen, guitarist J.D. Pendley and vocalist Albanie Falletta, to the stage of San Antonio’s Pearl Stable on the banks of the San Antonio River. The Band tears it up with piano sensation Shelly Berg, and series favorites Vernel Bagneris and Topsy ...
The King Jazz Records Story
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD1: In A Mezz, Mezzrow Talks; Those Mellow Blues; Gully Low Blues;
Cow Cow Blues; 133rd Street Boogie; Mezzrow Talks; I Finally Gotcha;
Boogin' With Mezz; Callin' 'Em Home; Step Down, Step Up; Shakin' Loose
(2 takes); Broken Man Blues; New Jailhouse Blues; House Party (2
takes); Perdido Street Stomp (two takes); Revolutionary Blues (2
takes); Mezzrow Talks; Blood On The Moon; Levee Blues; Mezzrow Talks;
Layin' My Rules In Blues; Bad, Bad Baby Blues (2 takes).
CD 2: Mezzrow Talks; Saw Mill Blues; Minor Swoon (3 takes); The Sheik
Of Araby (2 takes); Boogin' With Big Sid; Mezzrow Talks; Baby I'm
Cuttin' Out (3 takes); Ole Miss (2 takes); Mezzrow Talks; Bowin' The
Blues (2 takes); Jelly Roll (4 takes); Perdido Street Stomp (2 takes);
32 Bars of Blues; Forgotten Harmony; Revolutionary Blues.
CD3: Mezzrow Talks; Gone Away Blues; De Luxe Stomp; Mezzrow Talks; Out
Of The Gallion (3 takes); Mezzrow Talks; Breathless Blues; Mezzrow
Talks; Really The Blues Part 1 (2 takes); Really The Blues Part 2 (2
takes); Evil Gal Blues; Mezzrow Talks; Fat Mama Blues; Mezzrow Talks;
Mezzrow Talks; You Got To Give It To Me; Hey Daddy Blues; Whoop This
Wolf Away From My Door (3 takes); Mezzrow Talks; You Can't Do That To
Me; Groovin The Minor (2 takes).
CD4: Where Am I? (3 takes); Mezzrow Talks; Tommy's Blues (2 takes);
Chicago Function Part 1 (2 takes); Chicago Function Part 2 (2 takes);
Mezzrow Talks; I Want Some (2 takes); Mezzrow Talks; I'm Speaking My
Mind (3 takes).
CD5: I'll Never Forget The Blues (2 takes); Mezzrow Talks; The Blues
And Freud (2 takes); Kaiser's Last Break (2 takes); I'm Goin' Away
From Here (2 takes); I Got You Some; I Must Have My Boogie; Funky Butt
(2 takes); Delta Moon (2 takes); Mezzrow Talks; Blues Of The Roaring
Twenties (2 takes); Caravan.
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