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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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Capri Theater Hosts Meeting Advocating a Minneapolis Sound Museum June 7
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
A group of prominent music North Side Minneapolis music people are creating a Minneapolis Sound Museum. Sure there is Paisley Park which documents ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Jimmy LaFave - Tribute
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 961 (Air Dates: May 29 - June 4, 2023) We remember Austin, Texas singer/songwriter Jimmy LaFave six years after his passing. We’re proud to du...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WCUW 91.3 FM, WHRV, KHEN-LP and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Jon Herington
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 960 (Air Dates: May 22 - 28, 2023) As a part of our 20th anniversary celebration we revisit our 2013 interview with guitarist extraordinaire J...

Bought by KRZA, KUNM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WHRV, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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
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
WoodSongs 1073: Mark & Maggie O’Connor
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk duo Mark & Maggie O’Connor.

Bought by KBRW, KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, Angelica Community Radio, KMSU and more


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
Gretchen Peters
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 959 (Air Dates: May 15 - 21, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Grammy nominated, Nashville singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters. Sh...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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
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
John Oates
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 957 (Air Dates: May 1 - 7, 2023) As a part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration we revisit our interview with John Oates. Best known for his wo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
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
Rosanne Cash
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 956 (Air Dates April 24 - 30, 2023) As a part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration we revisit our interview with Rosanne Cash, and her husband/...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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, ...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
John Lilly
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 953 (Air Dates: April 3 - 9, 2023) As we celebrate our 20th year on the air, we look back at some of the amazing artists we’ve had the opportu...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Culture Caravan (3/26/23)
From: Julian Booker
Series: Culture Caravan
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Featuring music written by Rafael Hernández Marín and performed by Xenia Rubinos and Ibrahim Ferrar / Omara Portuondo, new music by Senegalese arti...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Hemingway Project Imagines Jazz in Paris Between the Two World Wars
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Rick Carlson and Gary Schjulte, Credit: photo by Andrea Canter, poster by Maud Hixson
We’re at a rehearsal of violinist Gary Schulte and pianist Rick Carlson of the Hemingway project. Along with bassist Graydon Peterson, the group pl...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
The Hemingway Project Imagines Jazz in Paris Between the Two World Wars This Thursday at Crooner’s
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Rick Carlson, Credit: Andrea Canter
We’re at a rehearsal of violinist Gary Schulte and pianist Rick Carlson of the Hemingway project. Along with bassist Graydon Peterson, the group pl...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
She Can Play
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Sounds Jewish continues the Women’s History Month celebration with hot Jewish tunes from bands featuring women.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lucie Blue Tremblay
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 952 (Air Dates: March 27 - April 2, 2023) This week on Art of the Song we visit with Lucie Blue Tremblay as part of our Live From Caffè Lena s...

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 23
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