The Jazz-O-Rama
Hour is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The
Comedy-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, EVERY
SATURDAY starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on
cultradioagogo.com.
The boogie
woogie of Count Basie, Albert Ammons and Pinetop Smith are
among the tunes that will fill the air on the 34th edition
of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour airing TODAY Saturday, April
6th at 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PT, at http://www.CultRadioAGoGo.com (part of Joe Bev
3-Hour Block, beginning at 2:20 pm ET / 11:30 am PT).
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This Saturday Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of
Humor: "Roots of Rock: Boogie Woogie", including:
1. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Smith (1928)
2. Six Wheel Chaser - Meade "Lux" Lewis (1930s)
3. Detroit Rocks - Arthur "Montana" Taylor (1940s)
4. Woo Woo - Albert Ammons (1938)
5. Boogie Woogie - Count Basie with Trio (1938)
6. Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong) The Count Basie Orchestra,
Jimmy Rushing vocal (1936)
7. Boogie Woogie - Count Basie And Illinois Jacquet (1946)
8. Boogie - Art Tatum (1945)
9. Billy´s Boogie - The Billy Penrose Quartet (1945)
10. Bass Goin' Crazy - Albert Ammons (1939)
11. Red's Boogie - Piano Red (1950)
12. Indian Boogie Woogie - The Woody Herman Orchestra (1938)
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13. Boogie Woogie - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (1938)
14. Boo-Woo - Harry James and the Boogie Woogie Trio (1939)
15. Central Avenue Breakdown - Lionel Hampton with Nat King
Cole (1940)
16. Beck's Boogie - Pia Beck (1952)
Clarence Smith, better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top
Smith was one of the earliest pianists to recorded a
boogie-woogie"
piano
solo. On December 29, 1928 he recorded his influential "Pine
Top's Boogie Woogie," one of the first "boogie woogie" style
recordings to make a hit, and which cemented the name for the
style. Similar lyrics are heard in many later songs, including
"Mess Around" and "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles.
Meade "Lux" Lewis was an pianist and composer, noted for his
work in the boogie-woogie style. His best known work, "Honky
Tonk Train Blues", has been recorded in various contexts,
often in a big band arrangement.
Arthur "Montana" Taylor was a boogie-woogie pianist best known
for his recordings in the 1940s and regarded as the leading
exponent of the "barrelhouse"
style of playing.
Albert C. Ammons learned to play by the age of ten. He also
played percussion in the drum and bugle corps as a teenager
and was soon performing with bands on the Chicago club scene.
After World War I he became interested in the blues, learning
by listening to Chicago pianists Hersal Thomas and the
brothers Alonzo and Jimmy Yancey.
William "Count" Basie was born to Harvey Lee and Lillian Basie
in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father worked as a coachman and
caretaker for a wealthy judge. After automobiles replaced
horses, his father became a groundskeeper and handyman for
several wealthy families in the area.
Arthur "Art" Tatum, Jr. was an jazz pianist and virtuoso who
played with phenomenal facility despite being nearly blind
from birth. Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the
greatest jazz pianists of all time, and he was a major
influence on later generations of jazz pianists.
The Billy Penrose Quartet recorded jazz in the 1940s in
England for Parlophone Records.
William "Willie" Lee Perryman usually known professionally as
Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an jazz
artist, the first to hit the pop music charts.Some music
historians credit Perryman's 1950 recording "Rocking With Red"
for the popularization of the term "rock and roll" in Atlanta.
His simple, hard-pounding left hand and his percussive right
hand, coupled with his cheerful shout, brought him
considerable success over three decades.
Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman was an jazz clarinetist, alto
and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading
various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most
popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders. Herman continued to
perform into the 1980s,
Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an jazz trombonist,
trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He
was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his
smooth-toned trombone playing.He was known as "The Sentimental
Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing.
The Dorey Brothers reunited in 1953, focusing their attention
on television. On December 26, 1953, the brothers appeared
with their orchestra on Jackie Gleason's CBS television show,
which was preserved on kinescope and later released on home
video by Gleason. The brothers took the unit on tour and onto
their own television show, Stage Show, from 1955 to 1956. On
numerous episodes, they introduced future noted rock musician
Elvis Presley to national television audiences, prior to
Presley's better known appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
THIS WEEKS VIDEO:
Henry Haag “Harry” James was a jazz musician and actor best
known as a trumpeter who led a swing band during the Big Band
Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known
among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as
well as his superior tone.
Lionel Leo Hampton was an jazz vibraphonist, pianist,
percussionist, bandleader and actor. Along with Red Norvo,
Hampton was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton
ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked
with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and
Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones.
Pieternella (Pia) Beck was a Dutch jazz pianist and singer.
Beck was a natural at the piano. In May 1945, without
significant musical training, she was hired as pianist and
vocalist in the Miller Sextet, for which she performed in
Belgium, Germany, Sweden and the Dutch East Indies.
WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS - 4 PODCASTS
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.
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.
LIKE THE JAZZ-O-RAMA SHOW? CHECK OUT OUR DOCUMENTARY...
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis: A Joe Bev Musical 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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