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Improv Notes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Musical Notes
Who invented improvisation, anyway? So sorry, that’s a rhetorical question.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Twilight Years
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1933 recording of top songs
As the depression deepened in the early ‘30s, musicians, like everyone else, had a hard time finding work.

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  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Cream of the Crop
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1914 Rolls Royce
A small selection of top selling and most popular songs of the 1920s

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  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Changes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Don Redman
By the time jazz had been around for a decade, musicians began a line of experimentation. It pulled them further and further away from their roots:...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Everybody’s Talking About Sammy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sam Morgan's Band
New Orleans trumpet artist Sam Morgan is a curiosity.

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Symphonic Riffs
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Benny Carter, Credit: Jazz Classics jacket cover
If it wasn't for jazz and blues enthusiast John Hammond, Brunswick Records may never have released the music they did in the early 1930s.

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ridin' in Rhythm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington
1933 was a pivotal year for jazz. As far as musicians were concerned, the depression closed a lot of doors for lucrative employment, but it also op...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Friday Night Fish Fry: Mardi Gras
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Mardi Gras parade
What better way to celebrate Mardi Gras than with New Orleans musicians performing the music of the Festivities.

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kansas City Kitty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
Kansas City was a hotbed of jazz in the 1920s. Their inventive style is heard in works the of Walter Page's Blue Devils, Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds ...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
At Its Zenith
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Many jazz historians look at the development of jazz in the 1920s, and highlight 1927 and ’28 as the pinnacle.

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Soundtrack Songs
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council (TFPC)
This program features the music of the 1920s and ‘30s that have been used in films and TV in recent years.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Mystery of Reggie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Reginald Foresythe
Reginald Foresythe was an inventive composer and pianist whose originality can still be heard today.

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Swing Before Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson
So why are the terms “Swing Era” and Big Band Era are identified with the 1930s? Jazz big band had been around for over 16-years, and all of the mu...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fats and Satch: Thomas Fats Waller and Louis Satchmo Armstrong.
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fats & Satchmo
Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong. In many ways, they were polar opposites.

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Centennial Celebration: ODJB
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
February 26, 1917 marks the date of the first recording of jazz. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band had the honor to be the first, but even that was ...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
1927 New Year's Eve Bash
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1927 New Year, Credit: Morton Poster
1927 - What a Year! The world was shrinking faster than anyone predicted.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Dean of Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ben Pollack
By the time Ben Pollack appeared as himself in the 1956 film The Benny Goodman Story, he was all but forgotten. Fans of early jazz remember him as ...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Keys to the Green Room
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Blythe
This program features five pianists who were recognized for their talents, but seldom had the chance to shine on their own (at least in jazz). They...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Three Part Harmony
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
The Harmonizing vocals of The Boswell Sisters and The Mills Brothers were inspired by the turn of the century barbershop quartets.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Reeds A Plenty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sidney Bechet
Selected clarinetists and saxophonists who furthered the art of jazz improvisation in the 1920s.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
City Slickers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Lytell
In the early years of jazz, musicians felt inspired to write about the cities that gave them unique images of the era. After all, each location has...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Four is a Crowd
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Edmond Hall
The most common makeup of bands in the 1920s was five pieces: trumpet, trombone, clarinet, bass and drums. But, inventive musicians in later years ...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Andy & his Friends
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Andy Razaf
If someone in Hollywood were to write an accurate screenplay on the life of composer/lyricist Andy Razaf, few would believe it.

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Personality Plus
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Josephine Baker
All that was required to stand out among your peers in the entertainment business was style, charisma, stage presence, phrasing, and, oh yes, perso...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1