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Duke’s Domain part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington
In the 1920s, Ellington performed in nightclubs as the bandleader of a sextet, a group that in time grew to a 10-piece ensemble. The nucleus of thi...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Duke's Domain part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington called his music "American Music" rather than jazz, and described those who impressed him as "beyond category. "He is widely conside...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Expatriate - Sam Wooding
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sam Wooding Band
Once you hear the music of Sam Wooding and his Chocolate Dandies you, too, will be curious why his work is not as familiar to connoisseurs of early...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Folly of Fats part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Here’s another look at the extraordinary talents of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller, with more humorous stories from behind the scenes.

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Folly of Fats part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fats Waller
Thomas Wright ‘Fats’ Waller is one of the few who can be called a legend during his lifetime, even though it was all too short: 39 years. Here he ...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Johnny Dodds Tribute part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds was one of the greatest clarinetist of the 1920's. Although both Jimmy Noone and Sidney Bechet had better technique, Dodds had a very ...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Lonnie's League
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson
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
  • Purchases: 1
Race and America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Professor Lawrence Blum
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Rhythm Kings
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Washboard Rhythm Kings
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
  • Purchases: 1
Exploring the Keys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Scott Joplin
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
  • Purchases: 1
St. Louis Shuffle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: sheet music cover
As New Orleans musicians began to migrate north following the closure of Storyville (the red light district near the navy base), it was only natura...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Kid
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Kid Ory
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...

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  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Hawk: 40-years with Coleman Hawkins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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He is considered the first great tenor saxophonist in jazz. The first signs of Coleman Hawkins’ potential began to show when he was still a child.

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
It's About Eubie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Young Eubie Blake
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.

Bought by KMUW, WVIA, KCBX, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 4
Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Race Record label
Singer, songwriter, pianist, singer and vaudeville and minstrel performer Perry Bradford, forever changed the sound of American popular music by co...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 1
Jabbo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cladys "Jabbo" Smith
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith is one of the finest exponents of early jazz trumpet, yet he is overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and many oth...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 111: Assumptions
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Jim Frey reads "Prism Riot"
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Butterbeans & Susie
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Butterbeans & Susie
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Clouds of Joy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy
Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 099: Tin Roof Project with Laura Parker Castoro
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Summer Season
Caption: Bestselling Author Laura Parker Castoro
This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 096: The Colors that Separate
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Summer Season
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This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Indie on Demand Reviews KINYARWANDA
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A review of the Rwandan genocide drama.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
The Dietitian on Feeding Bob Marley Before He Died of Cancer
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
Caption: Bob Marley on Tour in Dublin July 6, 1980, Credit: Eddie Mallin via Flickr
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1