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Not the Usual

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Early jazz musicians experimented with an array of instrumentation including the kazoo, washboard, jug, hot fountain pin, goofus and comb. They als...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 03, 2016
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Minstrel Miller

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

This program is devoted to several vaudeville performers who were forced to ply their trade elsewhere when silent movies and Broadway reviews close...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 11, 2015
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

A 1929's Valentine

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Love songs from the 1920s featuring Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Josephine Baker, and many more.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 09, 2015
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Don's Harlem Debut

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Don Redman was a trendsetter, and inspiration for early jazz. His talents extended to trumpet, piano, alto saxophone, and oboe, but his primary inf...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 03, 2015
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 1

Bunny's Bounce

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Bunny Berigan’s rise to stardom, and extreme fall has been compared to a hero from a Shakespeare tragedy. In a span of only a dozen years, he emerg...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 26, 2015
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

On the Road

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

This is a look at the various forms of travel in the early part of the 20th century: horseless carriage, boats, rail, and afoot.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 19, 2014
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

Riverboat Shuffle

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

In the latter days of the Golden Age of steamboats, many musicians plied their trade with the orchestras traveling the Mississippi. Memphis and St....

Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX

Added: Jul 28, 2014
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 3

Alchemy's Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Caption: An Alchemist in his Studio, Thomas Wijck. , Credit: CHF Collections

This episode explores the colorful (and sometimes risk-filled) history of pigments and painters, and the conservators who save paintings from the r...

Bought by WTJU

Added: Jul 22, 2014
Length: 30:34
Purchases: 1

The Kid

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 06, 2013
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 1

The Uke

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The ukulele became as commonplace in the American parlor as the piano in the 1920s. Today we think of the tiny guitar as a Hawaiian instrument, whe...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 17, 2013
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 1

120819 Before they were...

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song (Auto Download Version)

A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...

Added: Jan 06, 2013
Length: 03:10:23

Active Voice Radio 10-29-08: Steve Bloom: Pot Culture and Si Kahn: The Fox in the Henhouse

From: Chris Goldstein

Steve Bloom on his book Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life also Si Kahn on his book The Fox in the Henhouse:How Privatization T...

Bought by KSFR