Not a promo shot of the Jim Cullum Jazz Band.
WIZARD OF OZ
fans, click your heels together three times and get ready to swing.Public Radio International’s RIVERWALK JAZZ is airing “Silver Shoes & Green Spectacles: A Jazz Interpretation of The Wizard of Oz.” San Antonio’s JIM CULLUM JAZZ BAND and actor VERNEL BAGNERIS will take a trip to the Emerald City with a script from L. Frank Baum’s classic work of fantastic fiction and music from Harold Arlen’s movie score.
Jim Cullum’s band specializes in the early years of jazz, specifically the small-ensemble work of the ’20s and ’30s. Arlen’s Oz score seems like a good fit, considering he wrote plenty of the era’s jazz standards, including “Stormy Weather” and “I’ve Got the World on a String.”
If you’re in San Antonio, you can hear the show 7 p.m. on Saturday on KSTX and KTXI, and it repeats at noon on Sunday on KSTX. Check Jim’s website for times and stations if you live elsewhere.
I don’t know…that middle curmudgeon looks a lot like Mr. Cullem to me.