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Jazzy Women
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: blanche Calloway
This program provides a glimpse into the careers of four of the most influential female vocalists in early jazz. Ethel Waters, Eva Taylor, Blanche ...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Varieties Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lil Hardin
This program features the pianists who were instrumental in melding popular music and jazz in the 1920s. Without their influence, American’s origin...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Varities - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Earl Hines
This program features those pianists whose work influenced the future of jazz. In the late 1920s, it was Earl Hines. His experimentations revoluti...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
From Tenor to Baritone
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Seger Ellis
Three major happenings occurred in early jazz vocal. First the art of Crooning became popular, male vocalists singing romantic songs. The second - ...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Call Me Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson
The blues, as it’s called, evolved decades before jazz. Consequently, the blues and jazz coexisted and melded over the years. The original eight an...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
March of the Hoodlums
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fate Marable Orchestra
The title is borrowed from a Hoagy Carmichael tune written when he was in college. It’s a tribute to those talented musicians who are always on the...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Matt Vogel (Sesame Street, The Muppets) – Under The Puppet #50
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Under The Puppet
Caption: Matt Vogel, Credit: Matt Vogel
Matt Vogel is a principal Muppet performer who took over the roles of Sesame Street’s Big Bird and The Count as well as the most recognizable puppe...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 01:01:54
Vent Haven Museum with curator Lisa Sweasy – Under The Puppet #49
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Under The Puppet
Caption: Lisa Sweasy, Credit: Lisa Sweasy
The Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky is the world’s only museum dedicated to the art of ventriloquism. I speak with Vent Haven’s curato...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 31:42
Where's the Trumpet?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Noone
As jazz evolved in the early decades of the 1900s, the trumpet became the natural leader, however, there were a few bands that flew in the in anot...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz in the Big Apple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: New York City, 1923
Although there were several areas around the country that were popular spots for jazz in the 1920s, New York City stood out as the ultimate destina...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Nickelodeon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Aeriol Piano c.1920
As jazz pianists arrived in Chicago and New York in the 1920s, they found that their income could be lucratively increased by cutting piano rolls. ...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Djangology
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Djangology
Guitarist Django Reinhardt emerged from obscurity in the early 1930s with the accidental formation of a string quartet. Violinist Stephane Grappell...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Front Moler
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Miff Mole
When Miff Mole came to the Jazz scene in 1919, he was already an accomplished trombonist. As a pioneer artist of the era, he was the first trombon...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paul's Circle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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In the early years of the 1920s bandleader Paul Whiteman began experimenting with jazz. His goal was to introduce the new music to a wider audience...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Review
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle
Frequently, before a show could reach broadway, it had to pass through the musical review. This was both a vehicle for introducing new music, as we...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Inventive
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini, Credit: Oracle Records CD label
Two stand out musicians were also accomplished inventors. Jack Teagarden and Adrian Rollini. Jack was constantly tinkering with improvements to the...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Siblings by 7
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George Brunies
It’s not uncommon for musical talents to run in the family, but the Brunies team of New Orleans challenged the record. Six Brothers and one sister....

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Windy City Revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jelly Roll Morton
The music known as jazz originated in New Orleans, but it wasn’t until musicians migrated to Chicago that it became the popular music of the 1920s.

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  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lil Hardin Armstrong
There were several who sang with jazz groups in the 1920s, but very few composers and lyricists. Even fewer band leaders. Part of the reason was th...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KCBX


  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Legendary singer/songwriter on Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
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Legendary singer/songwriter Don McLean is a huge fan of bluegrass folk, music.He joins Steve to share his experience and some of the bluegrass sing...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:01:41
The Sackbut
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Kid Ory
“The Misuse of the Trombone” Some music critics in the 1920s did not appreciate how the trombone was incorporated into jazz. The moans, whines, whi...

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  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gabriel's Horn
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jabbo Smith
This is a feature of those unsung heroes on trumpet and cornet in early jazz. They received little notice because there were two, at that time, who...

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  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Say It Ain't So Joe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Sullivan
This program moves around the horn, as it’s called in baseball, with Joe Venuti on 1st, Joe Sullivan, 2nd, Joe Mannone on 3rd, and Joe Tardo, home ...

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  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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

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