PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
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Pianist and bandleader Oliver Naylor formed his own band in 1923, and a year later entered the Gennett Studios to record his first session.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 10, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Overlooked as a gathering place for hot jazz in the 1920s, the Southwest sported some excellent musicians. Many went on to successful careers in th...
Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
On the one had, you can say that pianist and arranger Joe Robichaux was a New Orleans musician, on the other, his unique sound set him apart from h...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Today’s image of Bing Crosby is that is was a Crooner, possibly one of the finest in American popular music, however, he was much more than that. P...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Singer, songwriter, pianist, singer and vaudeville and minstrel performer Perry Bradford, forever changed the sound of American popular music by co...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
MOVIE TICKET RADIO(TM)-CLASSIC version: If you or your listeners go the cinema, rent DVD’s or on-demand films, watch premium movie channels like H...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 02:05:59
MOVIE TICKET RADIO(TM)-POP version: If you or your listeners go the cinema, rent DVD’s or on-demand films, watch premium movie channels like HBO a...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 02:02:13
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Carol Channing and composer/lyricist Jerry Herman explain how a song from a musical took on a life of its own.
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jun 28, 2006
- Length: 05:37
- Purchases: 1