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Both Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong entered the professional music scene in the early 1920s. Both favored traditional jazz with its roots in New O...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 18, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Pianist and bandleader Luis Russell happened to have one of the best bands in the Big Apple by the latter 1920s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 06, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
One of the most flamboyant, enigmatic, larger than life personalities in early jazz is Thomas “Fats” Waller: a primary exponent of Stride piano.
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Black opera singers have always contributed to the art form. In this Come As You Are we highlight their performances, featuring famous opera star L...
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- Added: Jan 04, 2019
- Length: 01:51:56
- Purchases: 1
Debbie Duncan performs in the moment, altering songs as she sings. The award-winning jazz artist reflects on "Full Circle," an album recorded live ...
- Added: Sep 05, 2018
- Length: 03:30
HOUR ONE: "Hip Hop Future" - "Straight Outta Compton" turns 30 this year and hip hop has more influence than ever. What will it change next? HOUR...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
The most heavily traveled road in American music begins in black church congregations, (i.e., Baptist, AME, and Pentecostal, among others), and lea...
- Added: Jan 27, 2018
- Length: 51:59
Traditional jazz began its road to sophistication in the mid 1920s with artists like Louie Armstrong, Albert Nicholas, Richard M. Jones, Johnny Dod...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This program visits Chicago's South Side in the latter 1920s to hear three of the leading proponents of jazz clarinet.
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- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
PaviElle brings her own special brand of NEo-Soul and R&B to the stage. In this performance at the historic Sheldon Theatre in Red Wing, Minnesota,...
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 27:48
Jazz from Gallery 41 Host/Producer Ron Pelletier shares a conversation with Jazz legend Don Cherry recorded in Los Angeles, CA in January, 1982.
- Added: Jul 20, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
Nique Love Rhodes
We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and bus...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 39:03
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas Ruthie Foster plus East Nashville base...
Bought by KDLG, KJJF, WETS, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 10
Only recently did Mayyadda make the decision to perform professionally. But she’s come a long way in a short time, playing prestigious clubs such a...
- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 07:50
This program visits with the early New Orleans musicians. After all, their creativity is what started jazz on the road to popularity.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Here are a few selections from the archives of early jazz representing some of the talented musicians who, for whatever reason, remained in the sha...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Two powerhouse saxophonists of early jazz are heard in this show: Benny Carter, alto and Coleman Hawkins, tenor.
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Although mostly forgotten today, Hartzell "Tiny" Parham is known as one of the pioneers of Chicago style jazz of the 1920s
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Ferdinand “Jelly Roll Morton” LaMothe was among the elite, privileged few of the Creole population of New Orleans. Although the heyday of the city ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
When jazz enthusiasts think of early violin performances, they may naturally land upon the name Joe Venuti. Indeed, Joe was one of the earliest, bu...
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- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Produced by JAZZ HOUSE KIDS, a nonprofit jazz education and performance organization, the 2014 MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL features Christian McBride, ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 01:58:01
- Purchases: 3
A native of Panama, Luis Russell moved to New Orleans in 1919 after winning a $3000 lottery. He became a mainstay house pianist. But, in 1925 he mo...
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- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Ruby Dee, actress, writer and activist died on June 12 at the age of 91. The WFMT Radio Network is offering this excerpt of Ruby Dee speaking with ...
Bought by PRX Remix and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 2
Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders should be better known. But, they’re not. Part of the reason is their geographical location: Los Angeles - 1929. A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The review, Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, opened at the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street in May of that year.
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- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
