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The Side Man
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
He was destined to become the greatest cornetist in America before 1960. Yet, he was humble and unassuming. Today, it is difficult to think of him ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gil Rose--A Voice for Contemporary Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Gil Rose, Credit: Kevin Condon
A conversation with Gil Rose who founded and heads three organizations-- the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Odyssey Opera and BMOP/Sound—t...

Bought by WSLR, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WRGY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Pioneers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Frank Guarenti
By 1910 jazz is still without a name. The music, you might say, is just coming of age. Experimentation is the key. And New Orleans musicians are se...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Small Black Bands of the 1920s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Syd Valentine
When Chicago became the great musical center for jazz, there were many small bands to be heard in the South Side. It became a hub of creativity. An...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Celebrate Black Music Month with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kenny Garrett, Credit: Jimmy Katz
Saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett talks about his life in music.

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Small White Bands of the '20s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini
They were inspired by the music emanating from New Orleans. First it was the riverboats that brought jazz north, but with the massive immigration o...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz in Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sam Wooding
The introduction of jazz to European society before the 1920s is a complex story. While it was met with both enthusiasm and resistance, its influen...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
All-trans rock band Lipstick Conspiracy reunites
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Cover art of Lipstick Conspiracy 2006 album “A Perfect Alibi”, Credit: Larry Utley
In part as a “joyful antidote” to the escalation of anti-LGBTQ laws across the US, San Francisco’s all-transwomen rock band Lipstick Conspiracy is ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Three of the Best
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and Ben Webster. Each left an indelible mark on jazz, with their distinct styles and contributions to the developmen...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Bite of the Big Apple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Back Room, NYC
It was one of the most infamous times in the history of New York. The city became the hub of a new emerging music: jazz, and the Big Apple was the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Rarities
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lovie Austin
When the New Orleans community of Storyville was shuttered in 1917, musicians began traveling north to find work. No one could have been prepared f...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Musical Review
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Robeson
At the turn of the century, 1900, entertainment promoters discovered the value of staging musical reviews for introducing musical scores. In order ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska's Fresh Catch (week of 5/15/23)
From: Dave Emmert
Series: Alaska's Fresh Catch
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On this week's episode, we are spinning the new single from Queens of the Stone Age, Ocean Alley, and Bombino - plus we chat with Anchorage artist ...

Bought by KMXT, KHNS, KNBA, KTNA, KSTK and more


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Jam Session
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Natty Dominique
The Jam Session: It’s the proving ground for a musician. That’s where you test your chops. Your creativity. For 1920s jazz performers, these sessio...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Satchmo & Duke
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Armstrong & Ellington
They could not have been more opposite in their approach to jazz. Yet, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had identical goals. Provide the best mus...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska's Fresh Catch (week of 5/1/23)
From: Dave Emmert
Series: Alaska's Fresh Catch
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New collaborations from Thundercat x Tame Impala & The National x Taylor Swift plus checking out music out of FBX this week and chatting with FBX m...

Bought by KHNS, KNBA, KTNA, and Raven Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Syncopated Ladies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Valida Snow
Women have made vast contributions to the history of early jazz. Not only as vocalists, but as musicians, bandleaders, composers and lyricists. Unf...

Bought by WJCT and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
They Played 'till Dawn
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1929 House Rent party
Harlem Stride piano, boogie and skiffle were all created by the house rent party. Hosts opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to g...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poetic Notions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley songsters were quick to pick up on the popularity of jazz in the 1920s. And, the lyricists, like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Hoag...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Storyville
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Storyville
At the edge of the New Orleans French Quarter at the turn of the twentieth century Storyville kick started jazz. There are a couple of reasons for ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ferdinand's Influence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand’s Influence: Although his name is well known in the history of early jazz, he’s seldom named as a major player. Jelly Roll Morton. Yet, ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Becoming Jazz Violinist Regina Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Regina Carter, Credit: Bob Travis; (CC-BY-2.0)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: First of a two-part podcast with violinist and NEA Jazz Master Regina Carter

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Place to Place
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s record shop
Interesting that there was an abundance of songs in the 1920s about places: streets, venues, cities and states. The musicians identified, through t...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Decade Like No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Twenty years into the 19th Century there was a string of something new. Cars, fashion, flight, and the arts and entertainment, including talking mo...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reeds-A-Plenty Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Dorsey
This program takes us through the later 1920s to the ‘30s, with the clarinet of Jimmy Dorsey’s creativity to the influence of tenor saxophone of Co...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2

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