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The Leaders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Knowledge, creativity, charisma, and endless energy are just a few qualities that make a good musical leader. If the leader can also arrange and co...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Clarinetitus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon
This is a tribute to a few of the creative clarinetists of early jazz. Two from New Orleans and one from Chicago: Johnny Dodds, Omer Simeon and Ben...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nuggets & Gems
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: uncut fire opal
This program digs into the vaults of early jazz to find those rarely heard recordings with some well known artists like Count Basie, and some not-s...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Talk with Playwright Lauren Gunderson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Lauren Gunderson, Credit: Kirsten Lara Getchell
Playwright Lauren Gunderson puts women’s stories at the center of the stage.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Stomps & Joys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Junie Cobb
Dozens of songs written in the 1920s are referred to “Stomps” in the title, but realistically, it can be used to mean dance. Perhaps even dance wil...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Minnie-the Moocher & other unusual lyrics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blanch Calloway
Along with the emergence of jazz came a number of songs featuring strange, funny, wild, and unexpected lyrics. Think of Vo-Do-Do-De-O-Blues, Nagasa...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Detroit Gold
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Graystone Ballroom
Decades before Motown music, Motor City was a hotbed for jazz during the 1920s. Paradise Valley and Black Bottom were the ultimate destinations for...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Calling All Basses
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Jug
When jazz was in its infancy, the most common bass instrument was the tuba. Convenient for the marching band. Eventually, bass clarinet and saxopho...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sticks
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Zutty Singelton
This program features the percussionists of the 1920s. In the earliest days they emphasized woodblocks, cowbells, China cymbals, and tom-toms rathe...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
March 2020 - Superficial representation of LGBTQ people in recent Disney films
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participants Amalee and Chris
Superficial representation of LGBTQ people in recent Disney films

  • Added: Feb 29, 2020
  • Length: 05:20
John McEuen ,founding member of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,John talks of new projects , the resurgence of the Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: John McEuen , the String Wizard
John McEuen ,founding member of The Nitty Gitty Band and a frequent contributor to Unreal Bluegrass, returns to update about new projects of The St...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:07
  • Purchases: 1
Hot Wax
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: c1920 Recording studio
Before the mp3, Compact disc, and Long play record, Hot Wax was the medium. Vibrations of audio traveled through a recording stylus into the soft m...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Audio Valentine’s Card
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Valentine Card
Some the best love songs were performed in the 1920s. This program recognizes the work of Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Yip Harbu...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dressing Up the ’20s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
The decade that became known as “The Jazz Age” consisted of a lot more than the music. The youth became style conscious thanks in large part to pop...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Name That Tune
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
When jazz became the popular music of the 1920s, Tin Pan Alley was in the thick of a Golden Age. This program features over 15 composers responsibl...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bubber & Cootie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bubber Miley, left
They’re best remembered for their mastery of the muted trumpet. Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams were standout musicians who performed with the Duk...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Doc filmmaker Jenifer McShane takes us on a ride with Ernie and Joe
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ernie and Joe, Credit: Courtesy of Ernie and Joe
Interview with Jenifer McShane who directed Ernie and Joe a documentary follows two San Antonio Police Officers as they respond to mental health c...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The New Orleans Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Toni Parenti
Shortly after jazz was introduced to a New York audience, many musicians migrated out of New Orleans, however, a core of the performers remained. F...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Brilliant Decade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Decade
The 1920s was one of the most inventive periods in American history. On the one hand, jazz became an music art form that swept the world, on the ot...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lighten Up Your New Year
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Butterbeans & Susie
A little levity from talented and inventive musicians can go a long way to putting some pep in your step. Fats Waller could hardly keep from adding...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Season of the Best
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Vocalion Records
This is a celebration of some of the finest music and talented musicians who recorded between 1923 and 1933. Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Bix Beid...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Georgia Peach
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Although Atlanta isn’t thought of as a hub for early jazz, nevertheless, it was a hive of musical activity in the 1920s. There were enough venues, ...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sizzling Sissle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
Lyricist, composer, vocalist and bandleader Noble Sissle had a very successful 60-year career in jazz and musical theater. He’s best know as the mu...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piano & Jug
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Clarence Williams
instrument was the jug. Clarence Williams was a professional, yet he thoroughly enjoyed a relaxed performing style. Add in a little hokum, and the ...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
When You're Smiling
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ted Lewis
You might say he didn’t take his music seriously. On the other hand, bandleader and clarinetist Ted Lewis is one of the best known performers of th...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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