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Some of the best music from the 1920s with Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and many more to welcome in the New Year.
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 3
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...
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- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...
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- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
During Bix Beiderbecke’s years of recording, there were literally hundreds of sound-alike trumpeters and cornet players. They all wanted to sound l...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
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- Added: Nov 02, 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
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
California’s influence on early jazz is not a trifling matter. Several musicians emerged from the Golden State to lustrous careers.
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- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Lee Morse & her Blue Grass Boys (All Jazz!)
- Added: Nov 23, 2011
- Length: 58:57
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
