This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans natives Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to bring to life in narrative and music the atmosphere of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, where strains of early jazz were heard.
The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.
Myth has it that jazz was born in the brothels of New Orleans’ famous Red Light District, Storyville. In fact, much of the music in ‘the District’s’ high-class bordellos sounded more like “parlor music" than jazz. On the streets, in dance halls, and in Storyville cabarets like The Big 25 and Pete Lala’s, Freddy Keppard and King Oliver experimented with music so new, it didn’t even have a name.
Frank Walker, the pioneering A & R man who signed
The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.
Myth has it that jazz was born in the brothels of New Orleans’ famous Red Light District, Storyville. In fact, much of the music in ‘the District’s’ high-class bordellos sounded more like “parlor music" than jazz. On the streets, in dance halls, and in Storyville cabarets like The Big 25 and Pete Lala’s, Freddy Keppard and King Oliver experimented with music so new, it didn’t even have a name.
Frank Walker, the pioneering A & R man who signed
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