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Footloose
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jazz Dance
The music that became known as jazz swept across America in the teens and early 1920s. To the older population, it appeared to be all elbow and kne...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rosanne Cash
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 1022 (Air Dates: July 29 - Aug 4, 2024) Our guests this week on Art of the Song are Rosanne Cash, and her husband/collaborator John Leventhal....

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Green Mill
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe "Wingy" Mannone
It’s rumored to be the oldest continuously running jazz club in the country. While the outside may be dark and unassuming, stepping inside is somet...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Combo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Combo
In the early 1920s, a small collection of musicians was referred to as a combination rather than an orchestra. In America, though, there’s frequent...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Turn On the Heat
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
Summer. Those three months are loaded with ups and downs. Along with rising temperatures, there’s a remarkable increase in travel – not to mention ...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
721.X: ANYTIME CLASSICAL, 7/5/2024 11:00 PM
From: CMI
Series: ANYTIME CLASSICAL
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6 works, including BACH: Partita for Violin Solo #2 in D Minor, BWV 1004; Julia Fischer, violin.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
Minnesota Jazz Legends 2024
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Jazz Legends: The Elders
Caption: Minnesota Jazz Legends 2024 , Credit: Andrea Canter
Jazz88 honors four of Minnesota's most notable jazz musicians. This special includes studio interviews with host/producer Patty Peterson, as well a...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2024
  • Length: 56:59
Hubs
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Dumaine's Band
Jazz originated in the African American communities of New Orleans thanks in part to Congo Square near the French Quarter. That’s where the slaves ...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sunset Cafe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Sunset/Grand Terrace Cafe
When mob boss Al Capone took control of the Sunset Café in Chicago in the mid 1920s, it was already considered to be one of the best performance sh...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Barnacles
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1910 Excursion Steamboat
Rivers throughout America were critical for commerce from the 17th through the early 20th century. Think of the iconic steamboat. Bales of hay and ...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Electrified
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Electical Recording studio
Imagine what traveling would be like if everyone followed different rules of the road. Total chaos. Well, that’s just about the story of the record...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Smalls' Paradise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Smalls Paradise
Ed Smalls, an African American, had the longest running nightclub north of New York City. 1917 to the 1960s. The club Ed opened reached its zenith ...

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  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bees Knees & other slang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blossom Seeley
Almost as quickly as they arrived, they disappeared from lack of use. Slang from the 1920s and early ‘30s. During their heyday, they were flying ar...

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  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jungle Music
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cab Calloway Orchestra
No one truly knows when the term came into common use. The original intent was for it to be derogatory. Insult the band and the music by calling it...

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  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Sobering Reality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Tiny Parham & Musicians
It’s not that one brought about the other. Rather, it was a melding of many factors, and during that time, jazz became incredibly popular, as did s...

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  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Material Influence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Snowmask
Besides having the moniker of “The Roaring Twenties”, not everyone was partying. Creative minds were at a peak coming up with new inventions. Who n...

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  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Riding The Wind | Episode 24-18
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

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  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Connie's Inn, Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Credit: CBS Studio
The nightlife that blossomed in Chicago and New York in the teens and ‘20s are the thread that laced together audience and music. In earlier years,...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Literature and Art
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Winold Reiss
“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” Those words come from F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Influencial Foursome
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe "King" Oliver
It was a lengthy journey from obscurity to international popularity. No one will say it was easy. But, with steadfast perseverance and endless cre...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Episode 24-14
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
European Dance Bands
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bert Ambrose
As traditional jazz evolved through the 1920s, audiences in Europe began gravitating toward larger dance bands. Live performances at dance halls an...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
On the Continent
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Hot Club of France
Between 1917 and the early ’30s there is a transformative era for jazz in Europe. While the music gets a foothold in America, it quickly spreads ac...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anishinaabe Dibaajimowin: An Ojibwe Story | Episode 24-12
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: 2024 Episodes | Tent Show Radio
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First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Blame Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: James P. Johnson
Jazz had to deal with a number of hurdles, in the 1920s, before it was eventually accepted by the American public. Even then, it was very limited a...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1

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