PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

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Caption: Joe Tarto
He was known as "The Titan of the Tuba," and by any measure he was beyond the standard rhythm section player.

Bought by KMUW, KCBX, and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Freedom
With extemporaneous creativity built in with America's popular music, jazz, freedom of expression became the norm.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sails Aplenty c1920
Songs celebrating the waterways: from Paddle Wheelers and Steamboats, to flat boats and sails. We’ll traverse the estuaries and mudflats, meanderin...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1920s microphone
The earliest remote recording units were created in the 1920s in order to set to wax the musical creations from as far away as New Orleans and Butt...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Here are selections from the work of three major musicians who set the standard in the first two decades of jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Building on a legacy set down by predecessors, Phil Dwyer begins on tenor sax, Karen Lovely lends her original voice and music to the blues. From o...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: 1925 electrical cords
1925 was an eventful year for record companies. The electrical process was introduced. Even then it took several record companies a couple of years...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jan Garber
Popular music of the 1920s was jazz.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Albert Nicholas
During the time Jelly Roll Morton was at the top of his game, he was able to surround himself with the best musicians.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jess Stacy
The stock market crash of October 1929 mark the demise of the music that defined "The Jazz Age".

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1933 recording of top songs
As the depression deepened in the early ‘30s, musicians, like everyone else, had a hard time finding work.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1914 Rolls Royce
A small selection of top selling and most popular songs of the 1920s

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A 1930s Cartoon Character
Jazz and cartoons were a perfect match made in ‘toon heaven in the early years of animation.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Prohibition raid
Many jazz enthusiasts feel that Prohibition jump-started “The Jazz Age.”

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  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Touring Car
The dawn of the 20th century ushered in an era of innovation never seen before. By the 1920s it seemed that everything and everyone was in motion.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Blanch Calloway
There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Don Redman
By the time jazz had been around for a decade, musicians began a line of experimentation. It pulled them further and further away from their roots:...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sam Morgan's Band
New Orleans trumpet artist Sam Morgan is a curiosity.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Benny Carter, Credit: Jazz Classics jacket cover
If it wasn't for jazz and blues enthusiast John Hammond, Brunswick Records may never have released the music they did in the early 1930s.

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Duke Ellington
1933 was a pivotal year for jazz. As far as musicians were concerned, the depression closed a lot of doors for lucrative employment, but it also op...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Held, Jr.
In the 1920s, the answer to that question was an important factor in the success of a song. Every few weeks a new dance was introduced, and fans lo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mardi Gras parade
What better way to celebrate Mardi Gras than with New Orleans musicians performing the music of the Festivities.

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Kansas City was a hotbed of jazz in the 1920s. Their inventive style is heard in works the of Walter Page's Blue Devils, Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Many jazz historians look at the development of jazz in the 1920s, and highlight 1927 and ’28 as the pinnacle.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council (TFPC)
This program features the music of the 1920s and ‘30s that have been used in films and TV in recent years.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1