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The Wizards
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Chicago Hottentots
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
Chicago School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Austin High School Gang
Although there really wasn’t a “School” for jazz musicians in 1920s Chicago, you wouldn’t convince the young Chicagoans intent on learning the new ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Legendary Clarinetists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Noone
This program visits Chicago's South Side in the latter 1920s to hear three of the leading proponents of jazz clarinet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
1929 New Year's Festival
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Poster for New Year's Eve 1928
By the time 1929 rolled around, jazz had become America's popular music.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMUW, and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Jazz Vocal
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
Early jazz vocalists had to create something quite different. A voice that matched the multi layered instruments they were accompanying.

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Half Pint
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon
Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon was a leading exponent of the blend between Vaudeville and Jazz in the latter 1920s and early ‘30s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Jazz Odyssey part 3
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
This is a trek through the streets of New Orleans of the 1920s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dave's Picks Volume 24: Berkeley, CA, 8/25/72 | Grateful Dead
From: KISU
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Dave's Picks Volume 24 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at the Berkeley Commu...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 4
A Jazz Odyssey
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Piron's New Orleans Orchestra 78 RPM
This program is a trek into the streets of New Orleans and the earliest days of jazz.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Boundaries Please
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Traveling Musician
So many musicians with loads of talent seldom ventured beyond their own boundaries. Here's a sampling of the riches of the 1920s.

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Cross That Line
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Pack the bags
There are so many talented musicians seldom heard simple because they didn’t perform or record in New York city, Chicago or Kansas City. That didn...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bricktop Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bricktop
"I was always fascinated with saloons. As a kid on State Street in Chicago, I was always running under the swinging doors." - Bricktop

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anything Goes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Entertainment
Since there were no rules about where jazz fit into the scheme of popular music in the 1920s, every imaginable fell into the grand experiment. Basi...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Give Me a Break
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
The origin of the “break” as it was used in early jazz was probably borrowed from dancers of the early 19th century.

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Defined Jazz?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Blind Willie Dunn a.k.a. Eddie Lang
Today, there's jazz-fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-rap. It's an endless list. Jazz has a distinct style with it's own elements.

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tuba Tsar
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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
Freedom
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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
Up a Lazy River
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Mobile Unit
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Before and After
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Here are selections from the work of three major musicians who set the standard in the first two decades of jazz.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Out Where the Blues Begin
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Theodore Roach
To whom do we give the title, "Origin of the Blues"? No one truly knows, but there a several geographical locations that have dibs. Does it matter?

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1590 (Hour 1 & 2) - 0/20/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
Piece image
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
Flip the Switch: Introducing Electricity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
American Standard Time
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jan Garber
Popular music of the 1920s was jazz.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Noodles of Ferdinand
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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.

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1