Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Al Jolson, George Gershwin & Bill Charlap

by Joe Dimino
February 23, 2025

Tune in for the 894th show, a jazz-filled hour celebrating the legendary artists featured in Kosher Jammer, the latest book by London-based jazz journalist Mike Garber. This deep dive explores how the Jewish community intertwined with African-Americans and other minority groups to shape jazz into the timeless art form it is today. We kick things off with the “King of Swing" himself, Benny Goodman, before grooving through a lineup of jazz icons, including Max Kaminsky, George Gershwin, Terry Gibbs, Mezz ...

Benny Goodman: The King of Swing

by Monk Rowe
September 28, 2024

Jack Pyle's Son

by Richard J Salvucci
August 23, 2024

Jack Pyle's Son Ralph (Randy) Pyle 254 Pages ISBN: # 13:9798326940865 Ralph Pyle publisher 2024 One must be of a certain age to remember when life in an automobile was inevitably accompanied by AM radio. You must be even older (and probably a centenarian) to remember when the home radio was the center of family life and television still an experimental concept. Some would imagine not pre-digital, but prehistoric, with some sort of ...

A Winter's Jazz Tale

by Nick Davies
February 15, 2020

With this episode we have decided to start picking a theme to focus on. Here we picked “Winter" as the theme for the show and we start with the Emmi U Quintet and finish with Eddy Duchin. Diverse styles but great music showcasing Winter. Playlist Emmi U Quintet “Winter Solstice" from My Bird(Intakt Records) 01:19 Kaidi Tatham “Cold" from It's A World Before You(First World Records) 6:26 Lucinda Slim “Two Winters Long" from Lucinda Slim (Self-Produced) 11:49 ...

Chick Webb & Benny Goodman (1933 - 1938)

by Russell Perry
February 19, 2019

In the mid-1930s, jazz orchestras led by drummer Chick Webb and clarinetist Benny Goodman rose to prominence with the arrangements of Edgar Sampson and Fletcher Henderson. After launching the careers of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, Webb succumbed to spinal tuberculosis in 1939, at age 34. Goodman launched the careers of Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Harry James and Charlie Christian over a storied run that earned him the controversial sobriquet “King of Swing." Playlist Host Intro ...

Clarinet

by Bob Bernotas
September 7, 2015

When you hear the phrase, “New Orleans jazz," what three instruments immediately come to mid? That's right: cornet, trombone, and clarinet. In those early jazz combos, the clarinet provided a soaring, high register obbligato that enhanced, and, in the hands of the amazing Sidney Bechet, challenged, the cornet's lead line. A decade or so later, the clarinet occupied a rightful place as one of the signature instruments of the big band era, serving as a distinctive tone color in the ...

Jazz on Film: Caveat Emptor

by S.G Provizer
March 6, 2015

There are good documentaries about jazz. A person can see the films listed on?this site?and walk away without reaching for the gas pipe. But, as?the furor around the film Whiplash (well, to jazz people it was furor) reminds us, it's wise to keep the bar low. When Hollywood does jazz, it should stick to hagiography and cheesy romance: The Benny Goodman Story, The Fabulous Dorseys, The Glenn Miller Story; these are really just the Lindbergh, Curie and Young ...