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Jazz and cartoons were a perfect match made in ‘toon heaven in the early years of animation.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
JazzFest edition with a focus on Louisiana music - just in case you don't get any of that at the fairgrounds.
- Added: May 01, 2016
- Length: 02:55:48
"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal." - Robin Williams, as told to Lawrence Grobel...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 1
Today’s image of Bing Crosby is that is was a Crooner, possibly one of the finest in American popular music, however, he was much more than that. P...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
A six square mile area of New York City became the hotspot for jazz in the late 1920s. Duke Ellington called it, “The world’s most glamorous atmos...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Ah, summer, the shortest season of the year. Or, at least it seems that way. This show is devoted to a few really hot bands and vocalists who guar...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The ukulele became as commonplace in the American parlor as the piano in the 1920s. Today we think of the tiny guitar as a Hawaiian instrument, whe...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Laughter is the best medicine. But, it feels that today's musicians may be taking themselves too seriously. Here are selections from the 1920s to t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Some of the best music from the 1920s with Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and many more to welcome in the New Year.
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 3
A classic year-end show that highlights the celebration of the holiday rather than the passing of any specific year. It's all about the going out, ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:41
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
He has one foot in vaudeville and one foot in jazz, and he was a show unto himself. Ted Lewis was the only popular bandleader who could show up wit...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
One of America's most creative and prolific composers and lyricists, Hoagy Carmichael.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Dec 01, 2011
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 1
