PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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In the latter 1920s, bandleader Paul Whiteman began incorporating jazz elements into his band. In doing so, he hired quite a number of hot jazz art...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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Pioneering blues and jazz guitarist Lonnie Johnson began playing professionally in New Orleans in 1917. He toured Europe with Marion Cook’s Souther...
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- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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Few musicians can claim the accolades given to Frankie Trumbauer during the 1920s and 1930s. Unfortunately, he’s largely overlooked today; his infl...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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Reed artist Frankie Trumbauer contributions to early jazz have been overshadowed by the role he played in Bix Beiderbecke's career.
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- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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A six square mile area of New York City became the hotspot for jazz in the late 1920s. Duke Ellington called it, “The world’s most glamorous atmos...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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When washboard was King. Well, that may be a stretch, but the popularity of that musical instrument, when it was used as such, reached a height in...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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This program is devoted to those pioneers of jazz piano from Scott Joplin to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.
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- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Original stride pianist James P. Johnson began his professional recording career in 1916 with the Aeolian Company by recording several piano rolls....
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- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 58:56
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