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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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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
Uptown Downtown
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: New York City night life
They may have been less than 10-miles apart, but New York City and Harlem were both vying for the top spot in jazz venues in the 1920s.

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Wizards
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Chicago Hottentots
Traditional jazz began its road to sophistication in the mid 1920s with artists like Louie Armstrong, Albert Nicholas, Richard M. Jones, Johnny Dod...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Austin High School Gang
Although there really wasn’t a “School” for jazz musicians in 1920s Chicago, you wouldn’t convince the young Chicagoans intent on learning the new ...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Legendary Clarinetists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Noone
This program visits Chicago's South Side in the latter 1920s to hear three of the leading proponents of jazz clarinet.

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
1929 New Year's Festival
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Poster for New Year's Eve 1928
By the time 1929 rolled around, jazz had become America's popular music.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW, and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Jazz Vocal
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
Early jazz vocalists had to create something quite different. A voice that matched the multi layered instruments they were accompanying.

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Jazz Odyssey part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
This is a trek through the streets of New Orleans of the 1920s.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Jazz Odyssey
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Piron's New Orleans Orchestra 78 RPM
This program is a trek into the streets of New Orleans and the earliest days of jazz.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Cross That Line
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Pack the bags
There are so many talented musicians seldom heard simple because they didn’t perform or record in New York city, Chicago or Kansas City. That didn...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra’s 18 Pieces Fills with Sound Crooner’s in Minneapolis this Tuesday
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
The Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra is 18 pieces in all. It’s got a growing book of tunes, a growing audience and growing stature. In 2017, the Tw...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Give Me a Break
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
The origin of the “break” as it was used in early jazz was probably borrowed from dancers of the early 19th century.

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Defined Jazz?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blind Willie Dunn a.k.a. Eddie Lang
Today, there's jazz-fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-rap. It's an endless list. Jazz has a distinct style with it's own elements.

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Freedom
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Freedom
With extemporaneous creativity built in with America's popular music, jazz, freedom of expression became the norm.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Up a Lazy River
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sails Aplenty c1920
Songs celebrating the waterways: from Paddle Wheelers and Steamboats, to flat boats and sails. We’ll traverse the estuaries and mudflats, meanderin...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Mobile Unit
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s microphone
The earliest remote recording units were created in the 1920s in order to set to wax the musical creations from as far away as New Orleans and Butt...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Before and After
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Here are selections from the work of three major musicians who set the standard in the first two decades of jazz.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Noodles of Ferdinand
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Albert Nicholas
During the time Jelly Roll Morton was at the top of his game, he was able to surround himself with the best musicians.

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1