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Stringing Along
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Carl Kress
With the exception of the piano, stringed instruments were the outsiders in early jazz. They were restricted to the rhythm section, and not conside...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fats Waller
A look at the origins of the word “jazz”. Would you believe that the root of the word is absolutely not what you think it is? After all this time, ...

Bought by WEAA, WNMU-FM, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Social Ties
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Kid Ory
When musicians began migrating north to Chicago in 1917, there was one item that was a must. Besides their suitcase and instrument, they had to hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Berlin, Porter & Gershwin
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Three of the biggest names in 20th century popular music. All of them started their careers before jazz reached north of Kansas City, but years lat...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Vaudeville & Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fess Williams
Second cousins, you might say. As jazz evolved, it adopted many other musical genres. Vaudeville was a natural. It welcomed the peculiar and experi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Opera recorded 8/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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older, middle and younger generations discuss Opera

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:05
Christmas at Home - recorded 12/2002
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Christmas has a special meaning for each generation. This is a generational discussion taken in December of 2002.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 25:00
Friendships - recorded 12/02
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Friendships - recorded 12/02 A generational comparative discussion

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:58
The Movies - Generationally Speaking
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about movies, recorded in June 2002

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 14:26
Savoy Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lionel Hampton
The Blues was never expected to join the British royalty, but in the 1920s, the musical genre morphed and shifted its course. When jazz melded with...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Tickling
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Earl HInes
A commonly used word for someone who played piano. Three of those artists are featured. One from the south, Jelly Roll Morton, East, Duke Ellington...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A More Perfect Union: A Musical Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 2-Hour version
From: The WFMT Radio Network
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime championing her two passions: equal rights and classical music, often referencing the si...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KWAX, Hawaii Public Radio, WWFM, WKNO and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:30
  • Purchases: 23
Chicago Buzz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Red Onion Jazz Babies , Credit: 78 RPM Record
Buzz translates to rumor, and if Chicago was anything in the 1920s jazz and rumor were the glue. There was constant buss around political intrigue,...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Speakeasy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Prohibionists
The fixture of the 1920s and early ‘30s was a result of the Volstead Act that introduced America to prohibition, and fostered the nightclubs that s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 124: Whiskeyville
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Sixteen more country and hillbilly songs from the dustiest corners of the United States. Featuring forgotten voices, songs, and labels found on 45...

Bought by KSTK and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Anecdotes
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sonny Greer
This program features a cross section of musicians … with paraphrases from Bill Crow’s book “Jazz Anecdotes”. Humorous stories about by Louis Armst...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Next Generation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Art Hodes Riverboat Club
Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP169 Hollywood Fats Band
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann) was a young guitar player who loved the sounds and style of musics from a time long past.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Professor Longhair's Legacy
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Professor Longhair, Credit: Michael P. Smith © The Historic New Orleans Collection
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, this show is devoted to “Fess” -- Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair - the pianist whose music fills the stree...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 1
Anticipatory Enthusiasm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Don Redman, leader
You’d be hard press to find more enthusiastic musicians who anticipated and relished every beat. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers were a young group who a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women of Stage
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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In the earliest years of jazz, the process of recording wasn’t close to being perfected. Microphones didn’t exist. Vocalists had to belt out their ...

Bought by KVCR and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP166 A Tribute to Jeff Healey
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Jeff Healey was well known for his Blues/Rock, but his true love and passion was for American Jazz.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:56
Sidney's Return
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: young Sidney Bechet
Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet is among the giants of early jazz. An equal of Louis Armstrong. Yet, he is not that well remembered. Part of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP160 Harmonica Shah & Howard Glazer
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A recording reunion for two musicians in the Blues world.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:01
EP165 Debbie Davies
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A long overdue tribute to a great musician and contributor to the world of Blues Music, Debbie Davies.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:28

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