RADIO/PODCAST: Riverwalk Jazz Presents "A Night at Bricktop's: Jazz in 1930s' Montmartre"

Beginning Thursday, October 7, Riverwalk Jazz, heard nationwide on Public Radio International and Sirius/XM, will present a special broadcast on Ada 'Bricktop' Smith, who played barkeep to the "Lost Generation" of international ex-patriots living in Paris in the 1930s. The broadcast will feature frequent guest singer/actors Vernel Bagneris and Topsy Chapman, who offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Bricktop and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jazz band is joined by pianist m: Shelly Berg ...

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