This is the first episode of the podcast Blue Voodoo. I am interviewing Sebastian Noelle at The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 14, 2018. He was performing several shows as both front man and side man at the festival. Sebastian Noelle is a German guitar player who lives in New York and has been part of the city´s muti-facated creative music scene since 2002. ... Show More
Jul 2023
How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star
In 1964, Louis Armstrong knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts with his recording of “Hello, Dolly!” becoming, at age 62, the oldest artist to ever hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Sixty years later, Louis Armstrong remains a beloved cultural figure, his oft-imita ... Show More
33m 13s
Mar 2024
Rhapsody in Blue, Reimagined
What do Duke Ellington, United Airlines, and the K Pop group Red Velvet share in common? They've all covered George Gershwin's piano concerto, Rhapsody in Blue. First premiered in 1924, the piece became an immediate hit for the way it blended American jazz with the European symph ... Show More
30m 28s
Jun 2023
Mendelssohn and Richard Rodgers the record
Synopsis
On today’s date in 1948 at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel there was a press demonstration of a new kind of phonograph record. Edward Wallerstein of Columbia Records stood between a big stack of heavy, shellac, 78-rpm albums, the standard for recorded music in those da ... Show More
2 m