PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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By 1930 Irving Mills had the world on a string. His music publishing business was booming, and he began to expand his control over his musicians.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
He may not have been much of a musician, but Irving Mills was enough of an entrepreneur to understand the value of popular music. Jazz was its name.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Broadcasting from an imaginary music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ... unless you were very hip in the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 03:02:13
Sleepers: Those wonderfully talented band of the last 1920s who were kept in the dark. Somehow, despite their inventiveness, they never reached a l...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
When Okey Records approached Louis Armstrong with the idea of forming his own studio band to bring hot jazz to the American public, Louis jumped at...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1931, a fresh new band recorded its first four sides at the Victor Studios, New York City. This young band dared to buck the trend by playing ho...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Memphis Tennessee became a musical Mecca in the 1920s, and Beale Street was its center. W.C. Handy was arguably the most influential composer sprea...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The earliest jazz big bands had swing, yet they are not considered part of the “Swing Era.” Part of the reasoning behind that is simply the need to...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
When we hear the phrase "Under The Influence," there are bad connotations that follow. But what about when influence is good, because it sets our c...
Bought by KUPR low power FM
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
Originally transmitted May 16, 2105. Joe Nick Patoski spins more great Texas platters and provides his trademark brand of radio salvation.
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 01:48:54
The all-star battery mates, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang met in high school. Both were violinist, but Eddie eventually switched to guitar. They became...
- Added: May 19, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The music of Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael performed by musicians in the 1920s to the 1990s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Several pioneers of jazz made their way overseas to perform for a European audience that, in many cases, were far more receptive of their music tha...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Pinto Pete and His Ranch Hands is an old time radio cowboy music show. Return to YesterYear while kicking back on the couch or roaming the West. Li...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 12:29
“Back Beat” is used as a reference to Rock & Roll denoting the 2nd and 4th beats, however, in this case, it fits for the pioneer percussionists of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
A live show that you can view by looking at the video listed on the Full Description. You can also participate with the folks at the broadcast tab...
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 02:56:58
Phil Napoleon is considered a primary pioneer of jazz trumpet, and his playing profoundly affected Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke. He was one of t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Four talented clarinetists of the 1920s who came from the Vaudeville and musical stage. Ted Lewis, Fess Williams, Wilton Crawley and Boyd Senter.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
For the fourth year in a row, Hacksaw Jazz broadcast from Boston Street, to the south of the main stage at the 2015 Chandler Jazz Festival, happeni...
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 01:59:52
- Purchases: 4
Chicago was a muddy, windy town in the mid 1800s, but in 1893 (World's Fair) it had come of age. By 1920, if you couldn’t find the jazz you liked i...
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Music that led to rock and roll from musicians that influenced the rock and roll legends. None of the hits but all of the originators. Collector...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 02:50:56
The music of composer, pianist, and painter George Gershwin. This tribute features many of his songs from the 1920s and '30s, and comments of some ...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX
- Added: Mar 30, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Hacksaw handles Horace who hounds Holloway and Harris, later even Hess. Have to hand it to hoards who happen to hit it hard. Violinist Stephane Gra...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 01:59:51
- Purchases: 4
Composer George Gershwin left behind a plethora of wonderful music during his brief career.
Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The original blues recordings from the 1920s featuring artists from the Delta to the Father of Texas Blues.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
