Bryan S. Wright Shares Rare Exclusive Vintage Jazz Music on The Jim Masters Show
0Pianist, Musicologist, Founder of Rivermont Records ,Bryan S. Wright, Ph.D., shares exciting news about the release of rare vintage jazz music on this episode of The Jim Masters Show as he joins award-winning television, radio, multimedia personality and host Jim Masters as special guest.\n\nBryan is a pianist and musicologist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is presently an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the founder and owner of Rivermont Records, a label specializing in ragtime and jazz.\n\nA native of Lynchburg, Virginia, Bryan first showed musical interest as a toddler and began classical piano lessons with Sandra Horwege at age 5. Violin lessons were added two years later. In his early teens, Bryan became keenly interested in ragtime, jazz, and related styles, adding pieces by Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and others to his repertoire. By 15 he was host of a popular weekly radio program, Sunday Night Nostalgia, heard in Central Virginia over WLVA-AM, WVLR-AM, and WLQE-FM. The program featured big bands, vintage jazz, and “old-time radio” dramas (with occasional live in-studio dramas that Bryan directed). As an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia), he furthered his piano studies with Christine Niehaus, taking time to host a weekly ragtime radio program, Elite Syncopations, on WCWM-FM. (The program provided the groundwork for the first 24-hour internet ragtime radio station, Elite Syncopations Radio, which Bryan operated from 2003 to 2010.)\n\nIn addition to performances as far afield as France, Japan, and Argentina, Bryan has been a featured pianist and lecturer at some of the most prestigious jazz and ragtime festivals across the United States, including the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival (Sedalia, Missouri), the West Coast Ragtime Festival (Sacramento, California), and the JVC Jazz Festival (New York City). He has also performed at the San Antonio Ragtime Festival (San Antonio, Texas), the Oklahoma Centennial Ragtime Festival (Tulsa, Oklahoma), the Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival (Columbia, Missouri), and the Central Pennsylvania Ragtime Festival (Rock Hill Furnace, Pennsylvania).\n\nAs a musicologist, Bryan completed his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in 2016. He has written articles for the Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford Bibliographies Online, and presented papers at both local and national meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and the American Musicological Society (AMS). In 2005 he was winner of the Lowens Award presented by the Capitol Chapter of the American Musicological Society.\n\nPlease give it a thumbs up like and leave a comment for us! Share this video too! \n\nShare, like, subscribe, follow\nYouTube: www.youtube.com/jimmasterstv \nFacebook: www.facebook.com/jimmasterstv\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/jimmasterstv\nTwitter: www.twitter.com/jimmasterstv\n#BryanSWrightinterview #GeorgeAvakian #jazz #thejimmastersshow #jimmasterstv