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The legend of musician Buddy Bolden has stretched well beyond the city limits of New Orleans. Whether or not half of the stories are true, really d...
Bought by WRGY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 2
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
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
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 58:58
No one questions the fact that Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was, in all likelihood, the first arranger of jazz. It’s also true that Jelly Roll was...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 58:58
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
With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.
- Added: Jan 18, 2012
- Length: 58:59
New Orleans musician who's work had a profound effect on the early development of jazz.
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Perfect for Black History Month (February), this one-hour special tells the story of Duke Ellington's musical "Jump for Joy"
Bought by WVIK, High Plains Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KSUT, KCSM and more
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 59:05
- Purchases: 37
A musical exploration of this lyrical and controversial style of jazz
Bought by KMUW, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WDUQ, WILL and more
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 13
