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It too decades for jazz historians to recognize regional bands for their influence on the music.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Here’s another look at the extraordinary talents of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller, with more humorous stories from behind the scenes.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Wright ‘Fats’ Waller is one of the few who can be called a legend during his lifetime, even though it was all too short: 39 years. Here he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 08, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Johnny Dodds was one of the greatest clarinetist of the 1920's. Although both Jimmy Noone and Sidney Bechet had better technique, Dodds had a very ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
As New Orleans musicians began to migrate north following the closure of Storyville (the red light district near the navy base), it was only natura...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith is one of the finest exponents of early jazz trumpet, yet he is overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and many oth...
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The Apex Club was raided by federal agents and closed for selling alcohol during Prohibition in 1930. Just before that fateful day, New Orleans nat...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
