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The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and Riverwalk Jazz
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
has appeared in such major venues as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center,
Wolf Trap, major worldwide jazz festivals, and stars in its own public
radio series, Riverwalk Jazz, broadcasting since 1987, heard on over
150 Public Radio stations nationwide and on the internet.
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays jazz in the classic manner, that is, in
the style of small, hot ensembles prior to WWII. The band's repertoire
covers a lot of ground--from 19th-century cakewalks to the small
pre-war Benny Goodman ensembles.
The core of the band's music consists of the sounds of Jelly Roll
Morton, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King
Oliver Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet, as well as
a heavy emphasis on Bix Beiderbecke and Hoagy Carmichael.
In keeping with the band's historical point of view, period instruments
and performance practices are often used. Each member of the band is a
specialist in historically informed jazz styles.
Leader Jim Cullum plays a cornet (instead of the trumpet or flugelhorn
used in modern jazz), which was the instrument preferred by early jazz
masters King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. Howard Elkins
plays a 1920s-vintage Epiphone archtop 4-string tenor guitar and a 1935
Gibson tenor banjo. Don Mopsick plays an old German double bass set up
with gut strings and high action in the manner of the pre-amplified
era. Mike Waskiewicz uses drumming techniques and equipment more
commonly found in the earlier drumming styles of Zutty Singleton, Ray
Bauduc, and Baby Dodds.
From 1993-2005, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band was on the faculty of the
Stanford Summer Jazz Workshop.
The Jim Cullum Jand Band and the producers of Riverwalk Jazz, in
partnership with the San Antonio YMCA are currently developing an
after-school enrichment program for elementary school children called
The Jim Cullum Video Curriculum.
In April, 2007, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band completed an epic tour of
Russia that took them from Moscow to eastern Siberia and back west to
the Baltic Sea. They played 9 concerts in 17 days and covered 7 time
zones. The Russian audiences were wildly enthusiastic in their applause
and appreciation for the band's music.
More on the band at http://www.landing.com/
More on the Riverwalk Jazz radio program at http://www.riverwalkjazz.org/
Downloads
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Riverwalk Jazz Project (pdf)
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Riverwalk "Jazz Times" Feature Article (pdf)
 The Jim
Cullum Jazz Band's "Tight Like This" (mp3)
The
Jim Cullum Band "Cakewalkin' Babies from Home" (mp3)
 Radio
Broadcast: "The Kid From Redbank (Windows Media)
Radio
Broadcast: "The Kid From Redbank (Real Audio)
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