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New Orleans Horns

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

The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 22, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

221126 The Second Rock and Roll Recording

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Pre WWII songs revived by rock stars and the songs "Crazy Legs" and "Good Lovin.'" Plus a focus on the original songs covered by The Paladins as ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, Prairie Public, WQCS, KFCF FM, and WYAP

Added: Nov 22, 2022
Length: 02:59:00
Purchases: 5

Sizzling Syncopators

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

He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 17, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Big Band

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

Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 10, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

KC Gems

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

Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 03, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Songster

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

Before there can be a singer there has to be a lyricist. Fortunately, the 1920s were rich in the number of creative wordsmiths. Not to mention the...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 27, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Lines of Color

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

: Jazz emphasized improvisation and individual expression. It became a symbol of freedom and rebellion. Especially for the young. The fact that it...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX

Added: Oct 20, 2022
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 2

221022 The First Rock and Roll Song

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Plenty of girl groups tonight.

Bought by KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KPRG and more

Added: Oct 19, 2022
Length: 02:58:59
Purchases: 6

A Handful of Riffs

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

One entry into the field of jazz that is frequently overlooked is the guitar. It belonged in the rhythm section. That is until Eddie Lang and a few...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 13, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Hanging Out with Royalty

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

The group went by quite a number of different names, but the one they were best know for was The Washboard Rhythm Kings. They were, by far, the mos...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 06, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Quality in the Performance

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

Almost completely forgotten today is a little known band based in Los Angeles in 1929 & ’30. Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders recorded a dozen titl...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 29, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Searching

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

A few musicians made the upper echelons of jazz in the 1920s. But, for every one at the top, there are hundreds of talented performers who only rec...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 22, 2022
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

220925 First Rock and Roll Song

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Integrated into the expected sound of the show, a narrative on art versus commercialism. Culminates with a hard close for membership in last two m...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, KPRG, and WQCS

Added: Sep 19, 2022
Length: 02:59:00
Purchases: 5

A Decade in the Windy City

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

They were a team in 1928 when times were good, and reunited in 1938 at the peak of the depression. They were known as the Footwarmers and the Windy...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 15, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Like a Lover

From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe

Tracks from some new recordings, and some surprises.

Added: Sep 10, 2022
Length: 57:51

Deeper Voices - Baritone & Bass

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

When Adrian Rollini introduced the bass saxophone to the front line instruments, several other reed artists were inspired to follow suit. The big d...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 08, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Leading Voices in Jazz

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

There was no roadmap to success for the Early instrumentalists and vocalists in jazz. They were in untested waters and out on a limb. Nevertheless,...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 01, 2022
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

Clarinets Go Wild

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

They were called "gaspipe" clarinetists. Their style was very popular in the 1920s. They emphasized peculiar sounds and startling effects, like, sc...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 25, 2022
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

A History of Live Radio

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Added: Aug 21, 2022
Length: 59:39
Purchases: 1

Louis & Louis

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

Two of the finest New Orleans musicians … Armstrong and Russell … brought the birthplace of jazz into the “Big Apple” in the 1920s, and heavily inf...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 18, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Washboard Blues

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

In 1927 Hoagy Carmichael was a law clerk. One day he happened to hear a sidewalk phonograph playing a recording of his song. He immediately decided...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 11, 2022
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Bessie’s Jazzy Blues

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

Although she wasn’t the first blues artist to record, she was most certainly an influential trailblazer. Frequently, her recordings were enhanced w...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 04, 2022
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

Sweet Harmony, Hot Rhythm

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

There were several vocal groups in the 1920s that specialized in three-part harmony, but it was The Boswell Sisters and The Mills Brothers set the ...

Bought by KCBX