Friday, March 1, 2013

"The Jazz-O-Rama Hour" syndicates; adds WEZU, 95.9 FM in Roanoke Rapids, NC

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour has been picked up by WEZU, 95.9 FM in Roanoke Rapids, NC, which will begin weekly broadcasts every Saturday at 3 pm ET, repeated 10 pm ET. Go to wezu.org.


Joe Bev's Jazz hour becomes the first Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! Internet show to syndicate to terrestrial radio via The Public Radio Exchange.

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour has been picked up by WEZU, 95.9 FM in Roanoke Rapids, NC, which will begin weekly broadcasts every Saturday at 3 pm ET, repeated 10 pm ET. Go to http://www.wezu.org.

"Your program will be a great asset to our station and listeners," said George Campbell, WEZU Station Manager, Program Director and On Air Personality.

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Jazz-O-Rama is an hour of the lighter side of early jazz--presented by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev)--from his personal 78 RPM record collection. The show began 31 weeks ago on Internet radio powerhouse Cult Radio-A-Go-Go!

In the first WEZU hour, "Louder & Funnier":

Louder & Funnier - The Coon Sanders Orchestra (1927)
Smiling Skies - Benny Meroff (1928)
Smiling Skies - The Coon Sanders Orchestra (1928)
(Does She Love Me) Positively-Absolutely - The Mal Hallett Orchestra (1927)
Baby, Ain't You Mine - The Coon Sanders Orchestra (1928)
That's a Good Girl - The Ben Selvin Orchestra (1926)
Maybe I'll Baby You - The Max Fisher Orchestra (1927)
Clementine (from New Orleans)  - The Don Voorees Orchestra  (1927)
Sugar - The Ben Selvin Orchestra (1927)
Ready for the River - The Emerson Gil Orchestra (1928)
Chicago Rhythm - The Floyd Mills Orchestra (1929)
Low Down Rhythm - The Phil Spitalny Orchestra (1929)
Nagasaki - Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra (1928)
Nagasaki - The Mills Brothers (1937)
Nagasaki - Cab Calloway (1935)
Minnie the Moocher - Joe Bevilacqua (2012)

New shows will continue to premiere on Cult Radio A-Go-Go!

Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton.

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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans,
with Wynton Marsalis:
A Joe Bev Muiscal Sound Portrait



by Joe Bevilacqua Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Winton Marsalis, Donald Newlove, Leonard Lopate, Louis Armstrong

Length: 59 min. 

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary with Edward R. Murrow.


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"Louis Armstrong's New Orleans" on The Joe Bev Experience is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Comedy-O-Rama Hour and The Jazz-O-Rama Hour - new shows heard every Saturday on Cult Radio A-Go-Go!
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 "The Joe Bev Experience" returns to CRAGG! with Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.

The hour-long musical tribute and documentary airs Saturday, March 2, at 4:30 pm ET, 1:30 pm PT on Internet Radio powerhouse Cult Radio A-Go-Go! 

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring Jazz great Wynton Marsalis, Jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong.

Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary with Edward R. Murrow.

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"Informational, polished, sound-rich, Joe Bevilacqua strikes again with this superb documentary on the life and music of Louis Armstrong. The rich tapestry of music, interviews, and sound from the streets of New Orleans is expertly produced. In addition to some rare recordings, the program includes interviews with Wynton Marsalis and others that really add to what is primarily a music program, rather than detract from the focus of the program. The sound quality is excellent, and the vintage recordings have been cleaned up well. The program is both entertaining and informative, and held my interest for the entire hour. I highly recommend it." (Phil Corriveau, Wisconsin Public Radio)

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The Joe Bev Experience is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Comedy-O-Rama Hour and The Jazz-O-Rama Hour - new shows heard every Saturday on Cult Radio A-Go-Go! cultradioagogo



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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans,
with Wynton Marsalis:
A Joe Bev Muiscal Sound Portrait


by Joe Bevilacqua Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Winton Marsalis, Donald Newlove, Leonard Lopate, Louis Armstrong

Length: 59 min. 

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary with Edward R. Murrow.


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The 78s of Illinois Jacquet on The Jazz-O-Rama Hour - Saturday, March 2, 3:30 pm ET - on CRAGG!

On Saturday, March 2, 3:30 pm ET, 11:30 am PT, Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama returns with a new hour devoted to the 78 RPM recordings of Jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet. (http://www.CultRadioAGoGo.com


Wailing Tenor Sax will fill the air when the 78 RPM records of Illinois Jacquet will be heard on the 31st edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour airing this Saturday, March 3 at 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PT, on Internet radio powerhouse Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! http://www.CultRadioAGoGo.com (part of Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, beginning at 2:20 pm ET / 11:30 am PT)



This Saturday Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor:
"The 78s of Illinois", including:

Illinois Jacquet's Album


1. Flyin' Home part 1 & 2
2. Hot Rod
3. Jacquet and No Vest (Savoy Blip)
4. Bottoms Up
5. Mutton Leg
6. Robbins' Nest
7. Big Foot
8. Jivin' with Jack the Bellboy
9. Black Velvet
10. Symphony in Sid
11. Big Dog (1947)
12. Jacquet Bounce
13. 12 Minutes To Go
14. Goofin' Off
15. King Jacqet

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Tenor saxophonist Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was an best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home" with Lionel Hampton, critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo. Although he was a pioneer of the honking tenor saxophone that became a regular feature of jazz playing and a hallmark of early rock and roll, Jacquet was a skilled and melodic improviser, both on up-tempo tunes and ballads. He doubled on the bassoon, one of only a few jazz musicians to use the instrument.

Jacquet was born to a Sioux mother and a Creole father in Broussard, Louisiana and moved to Houston, Texas, as an infant, and was raised there as one of six siblings. His father, Gilbert Jacquet, was a part-time bandleader. As a child he performed in his father's band, primarily on the alto saxophone. His older brother Russell Jacquet played trumpet and his brother Linton played drums.
Illinois Jacquet

At 15, Jacquet began playing with the Milton Larkin Orchestra, a Houston-area dance band. In 1939, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he met Nat King Cole. Jacquet would sit in with the trio on occasion. In 1940, Cole introduced Jacquet to Lionel Hampton who had returned to California and was putting together a big band. Hampton wanted to hire Jacquet, but asked the young Jacquet to switch to tenor saxophone.

In 1942, at age 19, Jacquet soloed on the Hampton Orchestra's recording of "Flying Home", one of the very first times a honking tenor sax was heard on record. The record became a hit. The song immediately became the climax for the live shows and Jacquet became exhausted from having to "bring down the house" every night. The solo was built to weave in and out of the arrangement and continued to be played by every saxophone player who followed Jacquet in the band, notably Arnett Cobb and Dexter Gordon, who achieved almost as much fame as Jacquet in playing it. It is one of the very few jazz solos to have been memorized and played very much the same way by everyone who played the song.


Joseph Bevilacqua
AKA Joe Bev & Mr. Jazzbo
Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton. 
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Bev also produces, directs, writes and voices half of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, which is has been highest rated radio show on Cult Radio A-Go-Go! for many weeks. Joe Bev's other weekly radio show, The Jazz-O-Rama Hour debuted at #2. 

Last year, the veteran voice actor added his third hour for Cult Radio, called The Joe Bev Experience which airs right after The Jazz-O-Rama Hour. 

More about Waterlogg Productions at http://www.waterlogg.com.

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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans,
with Wynton Marsalis:
A Joe Bev Muiscal Sound Portrait



by Joe Bevilacqua Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Winton Marsalis, Donald Newlove, Leonard Lopate, Louis Armstrong

Length: 59 min. 

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary with Edward R. Murrow.


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The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block Returns to Cult Radio A-Go-Go! with New Comedy, Jazz and Documentary

NEW "Camp Waterlogg" on The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, weekly unscripted radio theater with Joe Bev, Lorie Kellogg, Jim Folly and Kenny Savoy, streamed Saturdays, 2:30 pm ET, 11:30 am PT at cultradioagogo.com


Napanoch, New York is a-buzz with sounds. Chickens cluck. A woodpecker drums a hallow stump. Water drips off the porch into an ice-covered trough. Joe Bev captures them. 





The veteran award-winning radio producer, along with his merry band of voice actors, traverse the woods of Camp Waterlogg, his real-life rustic Catskills home, which doubles as the backdrop for the fictional kids camp.

It is all part of "The Comedy-O-Rama Hour" which premieres new shows every Saturday at 2:30 pm ET, 11:30 pm PT on Internet Radio Powerhouse Cult Radio A-Go-Go! (http://www.cultradioagogo.com)

In real life and in the fiction of the radio theater, Joe Bevilacqua (that's his full name) asks his actors to climb trees, run through the snow, dance by waterfalls, all while ad-libbing complicated story-lines and portraying multiple characters.

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Joe Bev himself voices Sgt. Lefty, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Lil Andy, Adam Maxwell, Woody, Sal Pilvers, and many others. More impressive is Bev's ability to play all these characters in one scene all at once, moving around the stereo landscape captured by his SONY IC Recorder.

"If I improvise Ellis and Lefty talking to each other, I might speak as Ellis on the left and as Sgt. Lefty on the right. This really completes the illusion that it is really two actors talking," reveals Bevilacqua.

In this week's opening scene, the character Olive Pitts is taking a bath, the Lorie Kellogg, the actress playing Olive, performed the scene IN the bathtub. Kellogg also voices Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger, Lkie, other characters.
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"We have replaced recording radio theater in a cold studio, on a stationary microphone with a sound effect table with something more alive," adds Bev.

The result is a free-wheeling comedy that is also a sitcom and a radio theater.

On this Saturday's Comedy-O-Rama, entitled "Marriage Fever Hits Camp Waterlogg," Sgt. Lefty and Olive Pitts plan for their Valentine's day wedding, which conflicts with the "elderly Dance & Raffle" being held by Sal Pilvers (Joe Bev). Meanwhile, Luigi (Kenny Savoy) and Marcello (Jim Folly) arrive at the dance two weeks early.

It was announce on February 27 that Blackstone Audio, Inc., has entered into partnership with Joe Bev's Waterlogg Productions to providing its award-winning audiobooks to a wider audience.
Joe Bev hearing about his new award!

It was announced on February 22 it was announced that Joe Bevilacqua was chosen to be among those to receive a 2013 "Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award".

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Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres most of his life. In 1980, at 19, Bevilacqua produced his first radio show, Liquid Comedy, for public radio station WRSU in New Brunswick, New Jersey and subsequently distributed internationally by the National Federation of Community Broadcaster (which became Pacifica Radio Archives). He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy for WKNJ in Union, New Jersey.

Bevilacqua also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton.

He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and in 2009, Bevilacqua did a commentary for Marketplace about his "green lifestyle".
Lorie Kellogg

Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio. 






Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Waterlogg Productions Signs Exclusive Partnership with Blackstone Audio, Inc.


New deal brings Joe Bev's audio to new audiences, including autobiography, biography, documentary, history,  interview, classic literature, fiction, radio drama, and comedy.

Blackstone's New Site:
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Blackstone Audio, Inc., is looking forward to its partnership with Waterlogg Productions and to providing its award-winning audiobooks to a wider audience. Waterlogg Productions is a multi-media entertainment company founded by husband-and-wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg whose output includes works that harken to the golden age of radio but with comedy in the forefront. Their work has been called “classic, yet marvelously fresh…original and vintage radio comedy and more” (BlueStone Press). 

Audiobook-Heaven.com called the duo “extremely talented voice artists…[with] a fine flair for drama, satire, and comedy.


All of our Audiobook Heaven reviews can be found here: 
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Blackstone’s Sales Manager Anne Fonteneau said, We are very excited to be working with the multi-talented Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. Their quality audiobooks can entertain the entire family and will complement Blackstone’s fast-growing catalog of audio offerings.”

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"Lorie and I are thrilled to be working with Blackstone, the grandfather of all audio book companies, to bring our audio to new audiences," said Waterlogg Productions owner Joe Bevilacqua.

It was announced last week that the veteran award-winning audio producer, writer, director and actor was chosen to be among those to receive a 2013 "Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award".

Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg are married and have been working together since they met in 1996.


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Under the agreement, Blackstone will manufacture, market, promote, advertise, distribute and sell the Waterlogg Catalog through the various channels, including Audible, Amazon, other online vendors, retail stores, libraries, CD, MP3-CD, and any new formats developed.

Waterlogg Productions has created 44 audio titles in many genres, including autobiography, biography, documentary, history,  interview, classic literature, fiction, radio drama, and comedy, with an additional 30 new titles planned for 2013. (Blackstone distribution is set to begin June 2013.)




Currently available:
Son of Harpo Speaks! A Family Portrait
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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis
The Bear: A Classic One-Act Play
Rare Daws Butler, Volumes & 1 & 2
The New Stories of Old-Time Radio
Daws Butler Teaches You Dialects
Old-Time Radio Parodies
The New Oldtime Radio Hour: 'Fibber McGee' and 'Duffy’s Tavern'
We Take You Now to Grover's Mill: The Making of the 'War of the Worlds' Broadcast
Pedro's Parodies: 14 Fractured Fables in Famous Funny Voices
Yabba Dabba Doo!: The Alan Reed Story
A Freneau Sampler: The Prose and Poetry of Revolutionary War Writer Philip Freneau
From Moonshine to Armadillos: The Birth of the Austin Music Scene
The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor
All Things Joe Bev: The Best of Public Radio
The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles Volumes 1 to 5
The Christmas That Almost Never Was
Healthy Living in the Catskills
The Joe Bev Valentine Treat
One Song at a Time: Tales from the Kerrville Folk Festival
Radio Tales for the Road: Transformational Journeys Through Time, Space and Memory
What the Butler Wrote: Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop
Streets of Staccato, Episode 1: 'Stench of the City' & Episode Two: 'Vice Grip'

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 1:
"The Camp Waterlogg Offensive"

by Joe Bevilacqua , Lorie Kellogg , Pedro Pablo Sacristan Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly
Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
Six one-hour comic misadventures of Sgt. Lefty, Olive Pitts, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Squeaky Lkie, Stinky Peter, Mrs. Terwilliger and all the wacky denizens of Camp Waterlogg, the dilapidated Catskills kids camp. The creation of husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and Lorie Kellogg, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour has evolved since its successful run on Sirius XM Radio into a wacky mix of family-friendly humor, radio theater, audio cartoons, and improvisation.
The Camp Waterlogg Chronicles 1 includes:
"Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg" part 1
"Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg" part 2
"Homeland Security Comes to Camp Waterlogg"
"Camp Waterlogg, Bon Appetite"
"The Camp Waterlogg Offensive"
"Camp Waterlogg: The Animals Are Revolting"
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