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In size and tone, the C-melody Saxophone is half way between its cousins -- tenor and alto. Once you’ve heard it in the creative hands of Frankie T...
- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Chicago musician Jimmy Blythe was well respected by his peers. He had a feel for jazz very few could equal. By the time he was 22, he had cut sever...
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This program is the epitome of early jazz heard in the Windy City’s South Side featuring multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader Junie Cobb.
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- Added: Mar 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In the 1920s, it was a major task for a band, without a lot of money, to tour the country and line up a recording studio date. If they travel by au...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
With the onset of the great depression at the close of 1929, trombonist Jack Teagarden had a choice: find another profession, or become a part of t...
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- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not unusual for musicians to name their bands after locations they’ve never been. That’s true today, and it worked well in the past.
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- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
As The Jazz Age roared to like in the 1920s so did the suffragette movement. In 1918 women were granted voting rights, and they took that to mean i...
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- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
They were unlike any other jazz group in the 1930s. Over the 6-years of their existence, their personnel changed every time they were in studio. Pl...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- 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
When the subject of 1920s jazz is brought up, the Golden State is seldom mentioned, yet the music arrived in California the same year it reached Ne...
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
One of the best orchestra leaders and talented clarinetist is how Benny Goodman is remembered.
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
At the end of his illustrious 50-year career in music, Duke Ellington wrote his biography. It’s a behind the scenes plethora of information about h...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This program is a New Year’s celebration of jazz in 1928.
- Added: Dec 25, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Experimentation and inventiveness found common ground in early jazz. That was especially true in the world of percussion.
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- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Old-time fiddler and 2018 National heritage Fellow Eddie Bond talks about taking the music across the country and throughout the world
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 25:11
Songs that were popular among the musicians, may not have been big sellers. Consequently, there are a bunch of songs that are completely forgotten,...
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Driving north from New York City to Harlem in the 1920s was quite a challenge. Even though only about 10 miles separated the two cities, the numbe...
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- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Fifty years ago the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors began publishing the Journal devoted to early jazz.
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- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Big Bands were in full swing by the mid-1930s, but the name least remembered is the leader who provided the inspiration: Fletcher Henderson. He...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 11, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 03, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The friends who surrounded Bix Beiderbecke in the 1920s is virtually a who's who in jazz. There wasn't one who didn't admire the man who played no ...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
French-American music is thriving in Maine and Don and Cindy Roy have a lot to do with that!
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:00
Before the electrical recording process was invented, vocalists had to sing into a large pick up horn. Women were disadvantaged because their voice...
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- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Detroit isn’t usually thought of as an active jazz center in the 1920s, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Fact is, Detroit boasted one o...
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- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
