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Caption: Louis Armstrong
Knowledge, creativity, charisma, and endless energy are just a few qualities that make a good musical leader. If the leader can also arrange and co...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sonny Boy II
Rice Miller is probably the more known "Sonny Boy Williamson" although there was previously to his time an actual Blues harmonica player who's went...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
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"The Blues is Alive and Well"- Buddy Guy

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:52
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Mr. Jack shares his personal favorite BB King albums.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:46
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On September 29 of 2018 the Blues world lost one of it’s Iconic artists of the West-side Chicago Blues sound Otis Rush. Although he had not perform...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:32
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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has made it to the “big Leagues” of the music industry with his talents. He just released his first major label album o...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:51
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Time travel today back to a time when a person could experience the raw sound and feel of early Chicago Blues on a Sunday afternoon in 1964 at the ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:10
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The innovator of the postwar (WWII) Chicago Blue sound!

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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A great guitarist of the early electric blues sounds coming out of Chicago, Jody Williams tired of the corruption in the early music business being...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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Only the "true" Blues aficionados have probably heard of this slide guitar player from the 1930s. May I introduce to you, Casey Bill Weldon.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:29
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Junior Wells was a large contributor to the "new" sound of the Chicago Blues after WWII. He was a highly sought after harmonica player in the early...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:38
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From Blues beginnings to Rock, to Reggae, the Kinsey brothers have been in the music business since their youth inspired by their father Big Daddy ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:57
Caption: Bubber Miley, left
They’re best remembered for their mastery of the muted trumpet. Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams were standout musicians who performed with the Duk...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Noble Sissle
Lyricist, composer, vocalist and bandleader Noble Sissle had a very successful 60-year career in jazz and musical theater. He’s best know as the mu...

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Clarence Williams
instrument was the jug. Clarence Williams was a professional, yet he thoroughly enjoyed a relaxed performing style. Add in a little hokum, and the ...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Both Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong entered the professional music scene in the early 1920s. Both favored traditional jazz with its roots in New O...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: J.C. Higginbotham
Pianist and bandleader Luis Russell happened to have one of the best bands in the Big Apple by the latter 1920s.

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller
One of the most flamboyant, enigmatic, larger than life personalities in early jazz is Thomas “Fats” Waller: a primary exponent of Stride piano.

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Fairfield Four at home in Tennessee
The ancient origins of an American gospel classic,"Children, Go Where I Send Thee," are told through archival recordings from The Library of Congre...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 38:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chicago Hottentots
Traditional jazz began its road to sophistication in the mid 1920s with artists like Louie Armstrong, Albert Nicholas, Richard M. Jones, Johnny Dod...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jimmy Noone
This program visits Chicago's South Side in the latter 1920s to hear three of the leading proponents of jazz clarinet.

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Saxophonist Charles Neville
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
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In these moments, we learn about the (soulful) power of the organ, especially in the hands of Dr. Lonnie Smith.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 12
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In these short pieces, Dee Dee talks about scatting, her big break, and studying the moves of Betty Carter.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 13
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Rufus McKenzie of Perry, GA shares a tale of degradation in exchange for a meal.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:00