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The Jim Cullum Jazz Band Celebrates 50 Years

January 5, 2012

Riverwalk Jazz this week celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a concert recorded live in San Antonio. Bandleader and cornetist Jim Cullum Jr. traces the history of the band through five decades of performances at home and on the road, from Carnegie Hall—to a bull ring in Mexico—and concert halls in ...

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Last Call Late Night Jam This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

December 29, 2011

Often at late night jam sessions, when the bartender is about to give “last call," the best jazz of the evening can be heard and savored. Those who stick around get rewarded with some of the hardest swinging, most creative music there is. It was on a night like this, at the end of the Sacramento ...

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Jazz + Photography = Now

August 26, 2011

In your lifetime, as in mine, both jazz and photography have gradually won acceptance as fine arts. Having been intimately involved with both, I see underlying similarities between these two “modern" forms. The special energy of the fleeting moment is as crucial to photography as it is to jazz. Perhaps Zen painting or action painting should ...

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Jazz on the Barbary Coast on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

September 19, 2010

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 ...

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Mandy Make Up Your Mind

Featuring the music of Turk Murphy
Duration: 4:19
December 16, 2007

Turk Murphy's Jazz Band, 1987 Turk Murphy, trombone; Bob Schulz, cornet; Ron Deeter, clarinet; Jim Maihack, piano; Bill Armstrong, banjo; Bill Carroll, tuba; and Wayne Jones, drums.

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