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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
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Now is the month of Maying, and English madrigalists weren’t the only ones singing about it! This week on Harmonia, we’ve got music for that marvel...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 59:02
We’re once again turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties on Afterglow, to hear the songs from last century that have stuck around. We’ll foc...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week, we’re continuing our exploration of songs from the Roaring 20s with a look at 1921, a year that spawned songs like “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On Afterglow, we’re spending the month of May turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties, a time when the Great American Songbook was in its in...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
“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
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We continue our 100th birthday celebration of Blossom Dearie, listening to her recordings in the 1960s and 70s for the Fontana and Daffodil Record ...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
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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
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Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We continue our 100th birthday celebration of Sarah Vaughan, exploring her work for Roulette Records label in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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
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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
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In the decade of the1920s, jazz evolves into the heartbeat of America. The music is the catapult into a new era around the world. Looking back, it ...
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- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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With a total solar eclipse just days away, we’re looking up at the sun for inspiration. We’ll hear songs of sunshine from the songbook, including “...
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The 1920s was a important time in the earliest years of jazz, as musicians began migrating to points north of New Orleans. Any time there’s a discu...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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It may feel like an overstatement to say, but it’s true, that the 1920s was a pivotal decade for jazz, and that’s especially true for New York City...
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- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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This week, we're celebrating the 100th birthday of the Divine One, Miss Sarah Vaughan, looking at some of her best recordings for Mercury Records, ...
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Spring is here, and so this week on Afterglow, I’ll be saluting the arrival of fairer weather with a few Songs of the Season, like “April In Paris,...
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 01:55:48
The 1920s were a exciting time for jazz in Chicago. While all jazz musicians played crucial roles in shaping a style that took on the name of the c...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Some lives say a lot about love, even if those who live them say nothing at all - the love story of Harpo and Susan Marx.
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 17:27
In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The story of early jazz clarinetists is a fascinating journey through the evolution of jazz. Not only did it play a crucial role in shaping the dis...
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- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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the 1920s the watchful eye of a moralist group of private citizens known as the Chicago Vigilance Committee delivered an urgent message to the pub...
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- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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