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“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
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome pianist Jeremy Kahn and his quartet, as they performed live, for the first time, music from a CD they rec...
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 56:59
- Purchases: 2
Marc Vives - Film Editor - Putty Hill, Museum Hours, Little Boxes, Sollers Point, The Kindergarten Teacher, Blow the Man Down
- Added: May 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
This week on On Story we’ll hear playwright and screenwriter Sofia Alvarez discuss the difference between writing for the stage and screen and the ...
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 54:00
Robert Ireland - Sound Designer - Mr. Turner, Peterloo, On Chesil Beach, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Judy, A Suitable Boy
- Added: May 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
Tom Ozanich - Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer - Sicario, American Sniper, Sully, A Star Is Born, Joker, and The High Note
- Added: Apr 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
Nicki Ledermann - Makeup Designer - Sex and the City, The Knick, Boardwalk Empire, The Greatest Showman, The Irishman, and Joker
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A college professor who plays blues on the side, Jennifer Lyn.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 59:32
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
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
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
Matthias Grunsky - Cinematographer - Funny Ha Ha, Nights and Weekends, Computer Chess, Saints Rest, Support the Girls, and Defiance Three Women and...
- Added: Mar 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
Eric Neveux - Film Composer - Those Who Love Me Will Take the Train, Intimacy, Persecution, Zombillennium, The Attack, The Insult, Borgia, The Brei...
- Added: Mar 22, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Decades before Motown music, Motor City was a hotbed for jazz during the 1920s. Paradise Valley and Black Bottom were the ultimate destinations for...
- Added: Mar 20, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Michal Jacaszek - Polish Film Composer - Walking Under Water, The Bad Kids, Memories of Summer, November, He Dreams of Giants, The Whale from Lorin...
- Added: Mar 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
When jazz was in its infancy, the most common bass instrument was the tuba. Convenient for the marching band. Eventually, bass clarinet and saxopho...
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This program features the percussionists of the 1920s. In the earliest days they emphasized woodblocks, cowbells, China cymbals, and tom-toms rathe...
- Added: Mar 06, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Omar Fadel - Film Composer - The Taqwacores, The United, In Search of Oil and Sand, The Judge, Yomeddine, The Advocates
- Added: Mar 01, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
Colin Wilkes - Costume Designer - Computer Chess, Results, Support The Girls, Little Woods, Palm Springs
- Added: Feb 22, 2020
- Length: 29:00
As jazz became Americas music in the 1920s, the jazz vocalist had to adopt to the key, tempo and pitch changes. This is a very creative era for the...
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- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
