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Fess, Fats & Fletch
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
Two of these early jazz musicians were among the shrewdest businessmen in music. The middleman of this unusual trio unsold his worth, and even gave...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Virtuoso part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jabbo Smith
With the burgeoning of jazz in the 1920s, the skills of the virtuoso became more important. After all, the majority of the public wouldn’t have min...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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The Virtuoso - part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Harrison
An individual who possesses outstanding talent and rises above the crowd. You’ll hear all of the expected names … with one exception. He didn’t get...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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On the Road
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Motor Lodge
Flat tires and mechanical failures are expected. In order to make a living in the 1920s, musicians had to travel. Frequently, it was one-night stan...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Speaks
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Jordan
From its earliest beginnings, jazz was different. Ok, on the surface that may appear obvious. But the difference was not just the way the music was...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Phrasing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adalaide Hall
It’s easy to overlook the skill that goes into the art of good phrasing in jazz. The challenge for the vocalist or instrumentalist is to have creat...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black Kings of Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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It Sounds So Easy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Improvisation is an inseparable part of jazz. The idea is that a musician takes the melody and embellishes the structure. It’s very much like compo...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Sideshow
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dick Coy & his Racketeers, Credit: Genette Records
The program features musicians you may have never heard. Although very good, they were mostly territorial. That is, for whatever reason, they chose...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chords
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Chords Aplenty, Credit: Vector
I’ve heard comparisons between writing popular music and playing chess. There are the usual, recommended openings, but to stand out, writers need c...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Ocean Plastics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Blaustein
Massive wildfires, flooding and natural disasters: It’s obvious to most observers now that climate change is no hoax. But, most of us feel that the...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sid's Return
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sidney Bechet
One of the most talented New Orleans musicians is Sidney Bechet. Yet the soprano saxophonists is also the most overlooked. Had he not chosen to spe...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Satan's Notes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sunset Cafe
With the introduction of jazz to a broader audience of Americans in 1917, there was vast criticism and a trickle of acceptance. Not everyone was re...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Money Works: Stop Being a Sucker
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gretchen Ricker
It’s enjoyable to get involved in something that’s bigger than ourself. But debt should not be one of them. Yet, knowing that, our tendency is to b...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Banks in Chorus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Billy Banks
Vocalist Billy Banks and other male Vocalists join the program this week to highlight those 1920s singers who were not crooners. In the way Crooner...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
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Condon-Freeman
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie Condon
When guitarist Eddie Condon and saxophonist Bud Freeman were offered a chance to record traditional jazz in 1938, they jumped at the chance. This w...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Water Defenders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Cavanaugh
Water. As people are becoming more aware of the seriousness of climate distruption, it’s become easier to discuss the shortage as well as the extre...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
At Home in the World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Cover, Credit: N. Putens
When the Sierra Club was created in 1892, its original mission was to preserve the wilderness. The men who formed the group under the leadership of...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Entrance to Armstong Park
Congo Square: it’s in the heart of old town New Orleans, and considered by many as the birthplace of jazz. Just north of the French Quarter, the ne...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Orleans
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Congo Square
Although the origin of the blues cannot be precisely known, it’s generally understood to have evolved in the Mississippi delta, just north of New O...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
High Waters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
She began as a blues singer. Then turned to popular song with a jazz flavor. She was a movie star for her next recreation. And, finally, a gospel s...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Golden Gates
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Club Alabam, Los Angeles
Although it’s not thought of as a mecca for early jazz, California had its day of musical inventiveness. Some of the more famous nightclubs sprung ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Which One? Sheet Music or Record
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Sullivan
By the late 1920s the day of the sheet music was fading as fewer family members had the musical talent. Piano’s were replaced by the phonograph. Wh...

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  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1