Hot Jazz for a Cool Yule
Broadcast the week of 12/15/2005
Savion Glover
It’s December. The days are short. And with everything to do to get ready
for the holidays, they seem even shorter.
Never mind. It’s time for hearth and home, and sitting by the fire with
family and friends. It’s a time for peace on earth, even when you’re
scrambling to cross one more thing off your list. And out of the whole year,
December is the month for musical traditions of all kinds.
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band with their
friends Clark Terry, Bob Wilber and Savion Glover interpret carols and
holiday classics in a jazz band mood.
Tap dance sensation Savion Glover
leads an all-star cast, joining cornetist Jim Cullum and drummer
Eddie Torres on a highly original
jazz interpretation of the holiday classic, “The Little Drummer Boy.” The
Tony Award-winning tap dancer and ground-breaking choreographer Savion
Glover changed the way people think about tap with his hit, Bring in 'Da
Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. He made his Broadway debut at the age of
twelve as the title character in The Tap Dance Kid, and then appeared
on Broadway opposite Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam. In recent
years Savion has continued experimenting in tap with a variety of musical
forms from hip-hop and jazz to tap dancing to classical music.
 The
Riverwalk Jazz Holiday Special also includes:
• Ellington and Basie veteran, and trumpet and flugelhorn master
Clark Terry
(pictured at left with Jim Cullum) rendering “The Christmas Song”
(‘Chestnuts roasting...’).
•
 Star
of Broadway stage Carol Woods singing
the light-hearted “Santa Baby.”
• Milt Hinton, a legend of the jazz
bass fiddle, holding forth with “Winter Wonderland.”
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