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Motor City
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Graystone Ballroom
Detroit isn’t usually thought of as an active jazz center in the 1920s, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Fact is, Detroit boasted one o...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Show Stoppers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: sheet music for the Hot Chocolates
In the 1920s and early '30s, musical reviews became the rage. There was always an irrelevant story line that threaded threw the performances, but i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
On the Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s street musician
There’s a very good reason why so many songs in the 1920s relate to streets: Basin Street and Vine Street Blues for example. This is a result of mu...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Voice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Although Louis Armstrong is remembered as the best New Orleans trumpet, he’s also vividly remembered as a creative vocalist. What made him so diffe...

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  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Way Down Yonder
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s New Orleans
Those jazz musicians who didn’t leave for the Big Apple or the Windy City in the 1920s were left without a way for their music to be heard beyond N...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Henry “Red” Allen
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Henry "Red" Allen
Allen brought his musical talents from New Orleans to New York in the early 1920s when he left his steamboat band in St. Louis. Throughout his care...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Hottentots
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Richard M. Jones
Here are selections from the earliest recordings of pianist and composer Richard M. Jones, who had several hundred songs to his credit including ja...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Drop Me Off in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Mills
Although he wasn’t a professional musician, the name Irving Mills is stamped on the entire music scene in “The City of Lights.” Leader of the Hots...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Word Games
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lyricist Mort Dixon
Some of the best remember, snappiest tunes of the Jazz Age were superb, but not all. Some are remembered for the twist and turns in their lyrics, n...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Changing Keys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s piano
As jazz progressed through the 1920s, it became more complex. Composers and musicians were constantly searching for a better way to express their i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
You're the Top
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cole Porter
It seems that, in the 1920s and early ‘30s folks spent more time complimenting each other. So much so that Cole Porter decided he would write a son...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dorothy Cotton on MLK's Legacy (Ms. Cotton Passed 6/10/18)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Dorohy Cotton
Dr. Dorothy Cotton, one of Martin Luther King's top colleagues in the civil rights movement, passed away at her home in Ithica, New York, Sunday, J...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pied Pipers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sidney Bechet
The most recognizable voices of early jazz are heard in this show, as well as some of their better known recordings.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jack & Pee Wee
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Teagarden
Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell: They each approached their music very differently. At the same time, that’s what made them similar.

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  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hoagy's Friends
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael is considered the most respected and appreciated composers of early jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sidemen
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra
It isn't enough to be a good jazz musician. An instrumentalist must have a sense of pure teamwork inside a tapestry of improvisation.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
By Any Other Name
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Loring "Red" Nichols
Sometimes the band had more names than musicians. They also had more work than the average band in the 1920s. This program is selections of their l...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
An American Songbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Gershwin Songbook
This program is a sampling of the Smithsonian Institution’s best rated songs from 1916 to 1937. From Bessie Smith and Bix Beiderbecke to Bing Crosb...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fiddlin' Around
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jazz Fiddle
By the 1920s, the violin, or fiddle, had been dropped from most of America’s big bands. That didn’t deter musicians. They just kept inventing new a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Fields of Song
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dorothy Fields
In the course of a remarkably long career, with successes from the 1920s into the 1970s, Dorothy Fields wrote some of the most enduring lyrics of t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Street of Song
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Alley
Think of New York City. What immediately comes to mind is Wall Street. In the 1920s it was also known as the hub of the music industry.

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
As Good As Gold
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: George Gershwin
It wasn’t just the stock market and industry that saw jaw-dropping increases in productivity. It was seen in music as well. Especially jazz.

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mardi Gras
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Mardi Gras
It’s has been celebrated around the world for centuries, but in America, we commonly associate Mardi Gras with New Orleans.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KMUW, KVNF, WCPN, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Some Like It Hot
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Edith Wilson
1929 was a pivotal time in the careers of Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller. They had prominent roles in the off Broadway show, Connie’s Hot Chocolat...

Bought by WNMU-FM and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Big Bands before the Big Band Era
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: pianist Edgar Hayes
Long before the era that became known as “Big Bands”, there were plenty of big bands. And, they were known to swing, too.

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1