the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Series produced by Guy Rathbun

Caption: Joe "King" Oliver
Joe "King" Oliver 

A weekly program of Music and Stories for "The Jazz Age."

Across the spectrum of pop and jazz from the late teens to the early 1930s, this weekly series from the Club McKenzie invites you the share in the talents and tales of the musicians and performers that created an unforgettable era.


623 Pieces

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A Big Band Parade
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Prima
In the transition from traditional jazz in the late 1920s and the emergence of the Swing Era of the 1930s … the big bands managed to hold on to the...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Hilton at the Ritz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Hilton
Jack Hilton was one of the biggest names in music across Europe in the 1920s and ‘30s. Inspired by symphonic jazz popularized by Paul Whiteman in A...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Georgia Bo’s and Southern Belle’s
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Alberta Hunter
This program is a cross section of Southern jazz artists who brought their music to the big stage in the 1920s. Alberta Hunter, Sippi Wallace, the ...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Bix Revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Biderbecke & Trumbauer, Credit: Scott Chantler illistration 1931
This program is devoted to the music of corniest Bix Beiderbeck in 1927, when he and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer teamed up. This is the year the ...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Jazz Violinists
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie South
Jazz fiddlers weren’t considered a core component of early jazz, yet they were a key to popularizing a new music. Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Stephan...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Geography
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jazzy
In spite of their multiple talents, most jazz musicians in the 1920s didn’t travel to the major cities to record. Part of the reason was the limite...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The Dance Craze
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Josephine Baker
Charleston, Jitterbug, black bottom, shimmy, one-step foxtrot, waltz, tango, Breakaway and Charleston. And don’t forget the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Tr...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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A Piano Anthology
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Mary Lou Williams
Eighty-eight keys spanning 7-plus octaves, endless variations and creative styles. This program takes you from ragtime to stride and opens the door...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Crown the King
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
In the more than 150 years of Mardi Gras there was a king. Each crew or tribe had their king, and the overall parade was represented by a King and ...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Benny's Buddies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Woody Walder
This program highlights the musicians who performed with Benny Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra. The swinging, bluesy sound that became known as “Kans...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The Pinnacle of Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: McKinney's Cotton Pickers
A creative explosion occurred in the world of jazz in the years between WWI and the Great Depression. The electrical process allowed the musicians ...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Jazzy Women
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: blanche Calloway
This program provides a glimpse into the careers of four of the most influential female vocalists in early jazz. Ethel Waters, Eva Taylor, Blanche ...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Varieties Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lil Hardin
This program features the pianists who were instrumental in melding popular music and jazz in the 1920s. Without their influence, American’s origin...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Varities - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Earl Hines
This program features those pianists whose work influenced the future of jazz. In the late 1920s, it was Earl Hines. His experimentations revoluti...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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From Tenor to Baritone
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Seger Ellis
Three major happenings occurred in early jazz vocal. First the art of Crooning became popular, male vocalists singing romantic songs. The second - ...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Call Me Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson
The blues, as it’s called, evolved decades before jazz. Consequently, the blues and jazz coexisted and melded over the years. The original eight an...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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March of the Hoodlums
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fate Marable Orchestra
The title is borrowed from a Hoagy Carmichael tune written when he was in college. It’s a tribute to those talented musicians who are always on the...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The Forgotten Showman
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lew Leslie playbill
Lew Leslie began his career in vaudeville. He was in impressionist. The he broadened his talents by staging broadway reviews. Over time, he introdu...

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  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Where's the Trumpet?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Noone
As jazz evolved in the early decades of the 1900s, the trumpet became the natural leader, however, there were a few bands that flew in the in anot...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Jazz in the Big Apple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: New York City, 1923
Although there were several areas around the country that were popular spots for jazz in the 1920s, New York City stood out as the ultimate destina...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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