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The Dixie Ticklers: Standing Pat
by Bruce Lindsay
The Dixie Ticklers play New Orleans jazz. The band's press release puts it even more emphatically: debut album Standing Pat is “an in depth study of New Orleans jazz." If that phrase sends out alarm bells and anxieties about overly-reverential treatments of tired old trad standards, fear not. Because Standing Pat isn't really an in depth ...
Tio Family Clarinet Dynasty This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
It’s the story of The Tio Family, a New Orleans clarinet dynasty, this week on Riverwalk Jazz. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band welcomes Evan Christopher, a dynamic New Orleans-based clarinetist and student of early jazz. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
Swinging On The South Side: The Heartbeat Of Chicago Jazz This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the “black and tans" of the ’20s to the grand ballrooms of the ’30s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, ...
Boris, Wang Li, Sexmob & Colin Stetson
by Martin Longley
Boris(le) Poisson RougeMay 6, 2013 It's hard to corral Boris into a metal-generic corner. Whilst this Tokyo trio's prime reputation revolves around a spiraling psychedelic ascension, it is just as likely to get grubby and direct, or even poppy and spangled. This Poisson show was the first of two nights, ...
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 ...
The Bechet Legacy: The Bechet Legacy - Birch Hall Concerts Live
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Every so often a jewel of a recording is unearthed, prompting the obligatory question: “Why not sooner?" This wonderfully energetic, swinging effort is a treasure of an example.“The Bechet Legacy," with woodwind artist Bob Wilber and trumpeter Glenn Zottola up front, delivers significant homage to Sidney Bechet and to the Golden Era of hot ...
Sidney Bechet & Mezz Mezzrow: The King Jazz Records Story
by Chris Mosey
Three decades before Norman Mailer in 1957 drew attention to the social phenomenon of the “white negro," Mezz Mezzrow claimed to be just that. To use his own terminology, he was “a voluntary negro." Actually an American Jew, he played clarinet in the 1930s and 40s, often, as here, alongside Sidney Bechet. He ...
Clarinet Marmalade This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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 (pictured at right) perform with the Band and talk about their mentors and influences. The program ...
Eli Yamin and Evan Christopher: Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes
by Dan Bilawsky
Hero worship has long been a magnetic force that helps to draw in the next generation of musicians, yet this very concept is often pooh-poohed by a segment of the musical and artistic community. These people feel that new is always better, and that originality can't thrive if artists acknowledge their forefathers and wear their influences ...
Buster Bailey: All About Memphis
by Andrew J. Sammut
Buster Bailey's skill as both an improviser and section man made him a shoo-in for some of the best gigs in jazz history. Starting, from his teenage years, with W.C. Handy, steady employment under King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, John Kirby and Louis Armstrong also left the clarinetist little time (perhaps need) to record as a leader. ...
