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Show Stoppers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Broadway 1920s
This is a selection of hits from the Broadway stage and the movies in the 1920s and early ‘30s. But, there's one sleeper

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Networking: The Creation of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
Jazz didn’t emerge from a vacuum. It was an amalgamation of several musical forms including blues, skiffle, the call and response, vaudeville, and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Merry Makers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Blue Rhythm Band
By 1930 Irving Mills had the world on a string. His music publishing business was booming, and he began to expand his control over his musicians.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Sleepers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Crescent City Orchestra
Sleepers: Those wonderfully talented band of the last 1920s who were kept in the dark. Somehow, despite their inventiveness, they never reached a l...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Kind of Town
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Jazz Wizards
Chicago was a muddy, windy town in the mid 1800s, but in 1893 (World's Fair) it had come of age. By 1920, if you couldn’t find the jazz you liked i...

Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
On (a very short) Tour with Pinocchio-chan
From: Evan Johnson
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A Kabuki-inspired production of Pinocchio!

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:27
Episode 43: A Cheez-It Feast, And Other Reasons To Be Thankful
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: The aftermath., Credit: Lila Kitaeff
RadioActive's Yafiet Bezabih and Maddie Ewbank challenge our chef-in-residence Sarah Rosenthal to make a Thanksgiving meal out of mac and cheese, O...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 18:32
Starting Over
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
Caption: An ESL class, Credit: Sarah Dillard
Hosts Sarah Dillard and Aarti Chandorkar discuss the challenges of turning over a new leaf as we start the final week of Summer Soundwave. Travel t...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 1
Unique Noodling
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Wilton Crawley
To say that Wilton Crawley had a unique sound would be an understatement. He used every technique in the book in the ‘20s, and created much of his ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Frankie Trumbauer
Frankie Trumbauer’s spend his early career with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra, a small experimental group consisting of Bix Beiderbecke and Bill Ran...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lilian Alfonso, Metal Scrapper
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Dorsey Brothers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were two very important factors in the formation of jazz in the 1920s. They performed together with the California Ramblers ...

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Washboard Ripples
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Washboard Rhythm Kings
Spasm bands, or skiffle bands, (created out of found objects not usually found in musical groups) originated in the streets of New Orleans around 1...

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  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Young Fats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas 'Fats' Waller
Although Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller was one of the most prolific recording artists in the 1920s and 1930s, very little of his earlier music is heard.

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Blackbirds of 1928
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blackbirds Sheet Music
The review, Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, opened at the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street in May of that year.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Brunies Brothers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George Brunies
Half a dozen brothers and sisters, mother, father, and a cousin made up the core of the Brunies family. They were all good musicians. Many of them ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The First Lady of Radio
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Vaughn De Leath
She was known as “The First Lady of Radio.” Vaughn De Leath’s recording career began in 1921, which lead to hundreds of titles over the next decade...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Riddles from the Border Regions 3/15/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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NINE WERE FREELY GIVEN ME ....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions 3/8/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
WESTMINSTER QUARTERS ....

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Eddie's Scrapbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon is one of the liked musicians during the early years of jazz. A Chicago style guitarist, is probably best remembered for his wit, humo...

Bought by WDCB and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Rarities
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Three Jazz Wizards
Here is a sampling of some of the bands of the 1920s; most didn’t make it beyond their geographical boarders. By no means does that lesson their ta...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 15, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Dixie Stompers: Fletcher Henderson
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson
The Dixie Stompers were formed for one purpose: to record for a less expensive label for those who couldn’t afford to buy the 75-cent discs.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions 1/18/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE IMAGE OF HEALTH ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Riddles from the Border Regions 1/11/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Piece image
HE BORROWS FROM NEIGHBORS ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Big T
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Teagarden
Very few musicians had the artful phrasing that Weldon Leo “Jack” Teagarden had. Whether he was playing trombone, or singing, he seemed to adopt so...

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2