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

When musicians began migrating north to Chicago in 1917, there was one item that was a must. Besides their suitcase and instrument, they had to hav...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 16, 2021
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

It comes in at just over 650 pages, and weighs-in at just under three-and-a-half pounds. It’s also worth every word. Why? Because, if there’s anyth...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 13, 2021
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Meet percussionist and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Albert “Tootie” Heath

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Albert "Tootie" Heath, Credit: Ghylian Bell and Mychal Watts

Percussionist Tootie Heath shares the rhythms of a Jazz Master.

Bought by KMUW and KZUM

Added: Apr 11, 2021
Length: 28:53
Purchases: 2

Berlin, Porter & Gershwin

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

Three of the biggest names in 20th century popular music. All of them started their careers before jazz reached north of Kansas City, but years lat...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 08, 2021
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

Vaudeville & Jazz

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

Second cousins, you might say. As jazz evolved, it adopted many other musical genres. Vaudeville was a natural. It welcomed the peculiar and experi...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 02, 2021
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

Here's 2021 NEA Jazz Master Phil Schaap!

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Phil Schaap, Credit: Jazz at Lincoln Center

For jazz radio host, educator, producer and archivist Phil Schaap, the music has been a life-long passion and joy.

Added: Apr 02, 2021
Length: 29:03

Savoy Blues

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

The Blues was never expected to join the British royalty, but in the 1920s, the musical genre morphed and shifted its course. When jazz melded with...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 25, 2021
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 1

Tickling

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

A commonly used word for someone who played piano. Three of those artists are featured. One from the south, Jelly Roll Morton, East, Duke Ellington...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 18, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Chicago Buzz

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

Caption: Red Onion Jazz Babies , Credit: 78 RPM Record

Buzz translates to rumor, and if Chicago was anything in the 1920s jazz and rumor were the glue. There was constant buss around political intrigue,...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX

Added: Mar 11, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 2

The Speakeasy

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

The fixture of the 1920s and early ‘30s was a result of the Volstead Act that introduced America to prohibition, and fostered the nightclubs that s...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 04, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Meet 2021 NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Henry Threadgill, Credit: Nhumi Threadgill

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill continues his work on music’s cutting edge.

Bought by Harford Community Radio

Added: Mar 01, 2021
Length: 28:48
Purchases: 1

Jazz Anecdotes

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

This program features a cross section of musicians … with paraphrases from Bill Crow’s book “Jazz Anecdotes”. Humorous stories about by Louis Armst...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 25, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Next Generation

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

Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 18, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Anticipatory Enthusiasm

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

You’d be hard press to find more enthusiastic musicians who anticipated and relished every beat. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers were a young group who a...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Feb 11, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Women of Stage

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

In the earliest years of jazz, the process of recording wasn’t close to being perfected. Microphones didn’t exist. Vocalists had to belt out their ...

Bought by KVCR and KCBX

Added: Feb 04, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 2

The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: William Bell, Credit: David McClister

Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow William Bell, noted singer, songwriting, and producer.

Bought by Harford Community Radio

Added: Feb 02, 2021
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Aaron Dworkin, Credit: Dwight Cendrowski

Violinist and Social Entrepreneur Aaron Dworkin-- Working for inclusion, diversity and excellence in classical music

Bought by Harford Community Radio

Added: Feb 01, 2021
Length: 28:43
Purchases: 1

Sidney's Return

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

Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet is among the giants of early jazz. An equal of Louis Armstrong. Yet, he is not that well remembered. Part of the ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 21, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Son of Algiers

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

Although the isn’t as well known today, Red Allen was favorably compared with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and ‘30s. He managed to perform with som...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jan 07, 2021
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

New Years Night in Harlem

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

By the mid 1920s, Harlem had completed its renaissance in art and literature. Now it was time for the music to complete the circle. At its height, ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 30, 2020
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

A McKenzie Christmas

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

Secular Christmas music had been around for decades before jazz began to incorporate the season into their music. When they finally did in the mid ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 23, 2020
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

A Big Band Parade

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

In the transition from traditional jazz in the late 1920s and the emergence of the Swing Era of the 1930s … the big bands managed to hold on to the...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 18, 2020
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Hilton at the Ritz

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

Jack Hilton was one of the biggest names in music across Europe in the 1920s and ‘30s. Inspired by symphonic jazz popularized by Paul Whiteman in A...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Dec 11, 2020
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Georgia Bo’s and Southern Belle’s

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

This program is a cross section of Southern jazz artists who brought their music to the big stage in the 1920s. Alberta Hunter, Sippi Wallace, the ...

Bought by KCBX