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Golden Gates
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Club Alabam, Los Angeles
Although it’s not thought of as a mecca for early jazz, California had its day of musical inventiveness. Some of the more famous nightclubs sprung ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Heartbeat Opera and Its Artistic Director Ethan Heard
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ethan Heard, Credit: Stanley Bohorek
Ethan Heard and Heartbeat Opera re-visions opera for the 21st Century.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 3
Which One? Sheet Music or Record
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Sullivan
By the late 1920s the day of the sheet music was fading as fewer family members had the musical talent. Piano’s were replaced by the phonograph. Wh...

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  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Industry
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Brunswick record label
With the public's thirst for jazz, the number of record producers increased very quickly in the 1920s. Sounds good. But most of those new comers we...

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  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Bonding
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Count Basie
Among all of the wonderful bands of the 1920s, only a hand full had the same personnel for a long period of time: Duke Ellington, Count Basie and L...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Stringing Along
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Carl Kress
With the exception of the piano, stringed instruments were the outsiders in early jazz. They were restricted to the rhythm section, and not conside...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Social Ties
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Kid Ory
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...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Pender
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
Page Wilson: Into the Blue, Part 2 (conclusion)
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Page Wilson
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 27:53
Page Wilson: Into the Blue Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Page Wilson
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2021
  • Length: 25:55
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
Caption: Irving Berlin
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...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Vaudeville & Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
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
Caption: Lionel Hampton
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
Caption: Earl HInes
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...

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  • 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
Caption: Prohibionists
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
Caption: Sonny Greer
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
From Community Dance to Dance Community: Recalling the Old Farmer's Ball
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
The Next Generation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Art Hodes Riverboat Club
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
Caption: Don Redman, leader
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
Piece image
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

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