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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Plus lessons on the magical incantation that keeps the FCC police at bay.
- Added: Sep 27, 2015
- Length: 02:56:19
During the early years of jazz, vocalists had to experiment with the best way to compliment musicians that specialized in improvisation and counter...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Before the 1920s it was almost unheard of for female vocalists to record popular music. That is unless they were singing a number from their Broadw...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... Tonight another live broadcast from a New Orleans music club from the theater dist...
- Added: Jul 19, 2015
- Length: 02:51:17
Broadcasting live from a music club in the French Quarter.
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:57:04
A live broadcast from a faux music club in the theater of your mind district in New Orleans. Seventy band plus a table full of listeners like you ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2015
- Length: 02:54:17
In 1931, a fresh new band recorded its first four sides at the Victor Studios, New York City. This young band dared to buck the trend by playing ho...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Four talented clarinetists of the 1920s who came from the Vaudeville and musical stage. Ted Lewis, Fess Williams, Wilton Crawley and Boyd Senter.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Show Tunes in Jazz. This features those popular songs of the 1920s and early '30s that became jazz standards, and jazz that made its way to stage.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Lyrics referring to Mars with interstitials from Spock. If you like this, you'll need to move out of your parent's basement and leave the record s...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 02:59:36
Music for the weekend after Mardi Gras - a celebration of Ash Weekend. Plenty of Louisiana swamp blues music for the geared-down mood. Then again...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 02:54:24
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.
Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Songs about outer space, satellites, rockets and hot rods with plenty of instrumentals you can "do it yourself" sing over. Even an example of Jami...
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 02:51:43
They called themselves the Tennessee Tooters and the Hottentots … along with other monikers. There was Red Nichols, cornet - Miff Mole, Trombone -...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Interactive media being all the rage but I'm a dozen social media behind so I'm trying to catch up by inventing my own interactive media. (That wa...
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 02:44:07
In the early 20th century there was a recording war - a war of recording studios. There was Thomas Edison on one side. Then there was everybody els...
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KCBX
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
“The Father of Western Swing” is the moniker tagged to Milton Brown. In 1932, he left the Light Crust Doughboy’s to form his own band: The Musical ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Working out why I don't use identifiers for myself or the music in the first hour of the show.
- Added: Nov 11, 2014
- Length: 02:50:16
From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
She was known for her terrific voice. Her ability to shift gears from playfully light to low down growl was unmatched.
But Ethel Waters’ is also k...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The Gene Kardos Orchestra wasn't know for their hot jazz, but that's not what their bandleader/alto saxophonist had in mind when he brought his gro...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 09, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of." All the music that came just before the first rock and roll record. Collector's m...
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 02:47:19
By the mid 1920s, Chicago had become, not only a hot bed of jazz, but the home of a thriving bootleg business. Hundreds of speakeasy’s sprung up ov...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of - From the golden era of Americana, the 1950s - 1970s when popular music and race recor...
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 02:50:35
To say that London was not known as a mecca for early jazz is an understatement, however, Britain adopted America’s music very quickly.
The Savoy ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
