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The Head Arrangement
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders
The Head Arrangement. Music that isn’t formally arranged is often referred to as a head arrangement. Usually the leader of the group informally ass...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret IRS Files
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jesse Eisinger, Credit: ProPublica
According to sociologists, one of the primary keys for predicting societal unrest is inequality. The deeper the monetary divide the higher the like...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bandleader
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Henry 'Red' Allen, Credit: Spotify
In the earliest days of full orchestra jazz, there was no cookie cutter template Each bandleader used their creative juices to set apart their band...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Messin' Around
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Chicago, Credit: Getty
In the 1920s, Chicago became the jazz capital of the world. During that time, there were More than 70 nightclubs, ballrooms, and theatre halls part...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Collaboration
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
This features one of the most creative and traditional jazz changes in musical history: Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines.

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Their name was Pauli Murray
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pauli Murray circa 1931, age 21, Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Pauli Murray was a 20th century Black Queer civil rights trailblazer and legal scholar you’ve probably never heard of. On this edition of Out in th...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Nichols to Pennies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Red Nichols
Cornetist Red Nichols was the most prolific recording artist of the latter 1920s. If there was a song, he would record it. Although he became a ver...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Stardust
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Hoagland Carmichael
One of the more prolific and versatile composers of the 20th century Hoagland “Hoagy” Carmichael is heard in a verity of settings. From his earlies...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
On the Edge of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ted Lewis
We think of the 1920s music as the formation of Traditional jazz, however, there are other factors that are frequently overlooked. The introduction...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ellington Style
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of America's finest and most prolific 20th Century composers and bandleaders Besides his lengthy career at ...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
K.C. & the Southwest
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alphonso Trent Orchestra
Although jazz had roots in the southwest, their talents were ignored for years. All of the focus was on New Orleans. And later, Chicago and New Yor...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
From Trad to Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey
New Orleans traditional jazz developed swing in its earliest years. Bandleaders wanted to attract ballroom dancers and higher popularity. Why not. ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tough Guys & High Society
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Confiscated
Jazz was present long before the Volstead Act that came into effect in January 1919. You’d think the federal law restricting liquor would have ver...

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Sondheim-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Stephen Sondheim, Credit: Richard Avedon
A celebration of composer Stephen Sondheim with interviews, music and performances from his entire career

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 56:57
  • Purchases: 1
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
  • Purchases: 1
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
  • Purchases: 1
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
  • Purchases: 1
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
Letting the Light In
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place Season 3
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What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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
  • Purchases: 1
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
  • Purchases: 1
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

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