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Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
The origin of his nickname is disputed. Regardless of the reasons, Francis Joseph Julian Spanier was simply known as Muggsy. Before Bix Beiderbeck...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Harold Arlen wrote some of the greatest hits jazz and popular music, including the entire score to the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. But there a...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Here is one of the overlooked jazz pianists who, if he's lived beyond his 30-years, would rank with Early Hines and Count Basie. Very little is kn...
- Added: Jun 09, 2012
- Length: 01:01:02
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Whenever bandleader Ed Kirkeby wanted his band to record for another label, he’d tag them with another name. Hence: The Golden Gate Orchestra. An...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 58:56
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
This segment on the early years of jazz is devoted to the small group session between 1924 and 1930. Oh, yes, we also drift over to 1945.
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 58:58
In 1921, the Coconut Grove nightclub was the place to see and be seen. Hollywood stars frequently the club located in a peaceful rural setting sur...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Two legendary figures in early jazz: Johnny Dodds and Tiny Parham. They were at the center of the evolving new music of the 1920s, and contributed ...
- Added: Mar 03, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Bandleader, vocalist, pianist and composer Noble Sissle began his career in 1915 when he joined ragtime-vaudevillian Eubie Blake. Together they wr...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 58:59
In recognition of Hanukkah, this show is dedicated to the Jews who catapulted popular music to stage and radio from the 1900 to the early 1930s.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KWIT, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
One of America's most creative and prolific composers and lyricists, Hoagy Carmichael.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Dec 01, 2011
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 1
Lee Morse & her Blue Grass Boys (All Jazz!)
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 58:57
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 1
An internationally acclaimed jazz bar in New Orleans where the entertainment on the musical stage was often rivaled by the entertainment behind the...
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 12:53
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Dave Brubeck on the importance of Cultural Exchange
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 19
Jazz Master Dave Brubeck on US Jazz Ambassadors of the 1950s
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 19
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: 27:36
- Purchases: 2
From: Nicole Haldeman
Michael Palin presents a radio special about the Beatles? second movie Help!, which was first released in 1965.
Bought by WGDR, WCPN, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2007
- Length: 48:21
- Purchases: 4
An hour-long retrospective of the year 2006
Bought by KGLT, KUT, KVMR, North Country Public Radio, and WNED Buffalo
- Added: Dec 22, 2006
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 5
