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Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:52:04
Caption: Joe Tarto
He was known as "The Titan of the Tuba," and by any measure he was beyond the standard rhythm section player.

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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The internet stream and two week archive at WWOZ went out last night so this is an early posting of the raw, unedited show. The finalized posting ...

  • Added: May 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:30:45
Caption: Prohibition raid
Many jazz enthusiasts feel that Prohibition jump-started “The Jazz Age.”

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  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Touring Car
The dawn of the 20th century ushered in an era of innovation never seen before. By the 1920s it seemed that everything and everyone was in motion.

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Blanch Calloway
There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Helen Kane & Betty Boop
Helen Kane's name went up in lights in the in the 1920. She became one of the recording industries biggest stars.

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tin Pan Alley
The Alley of Song and America’s popular music of the 1920s, jazz, crossed over in 1917. It wasn’t long before musicians began to revive compositi...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Winold Reiss
When there's a movie chase scene, more often than not, the accompanying music is jazz.

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mezz Mezzrow
In 1946 Milton Mezzrow, otherwise known as Mezz, wrote a tell all book about his experiences with jazz in the 1920s and '30s.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jazz Dance
The spontaneous enthusiasm of jazz brought exuberance to the dance floor in the 1920s.

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:51:23
Caption: Eddie Cantor
This program brings in those talents who saw the humor in their musical forays.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1920s flapper
Here are a few of the many stories surrounding the term jazz.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Skiffle Band
Early jazz musicians experimented with an array of instrumentation including the kazoo, washboard, jug, hot fountain pin, goofus and comb. They als...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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I do a card trick on radio. Without cards. Without anything tricky. And it I did have cards, it wouldn't have improved the trick. "Oh yeah, a...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:03
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Ranting and raving like a motivational speaker for musicians... Oh quit being a big baby waa waa and just try listening for ten minutes. Nope, i...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:54
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of uncludign cover songs by bands that probably really did play garages as opposed to the ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:58
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Before rock and roll became a formula for celebrity. Before rock and roll became a formula for making money. Before rock and roll itself became a...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:41
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Finally get a second microphone for proper interviews but a pissed Ernie K-Doe dunks it into a pitcher of beer, brains me with it, then tosses it o...

  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:38
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Grammy Winners Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman, Musician Sofia Talvik, and Becomi...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
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Jamie is visited by the Officer Duane Williams of the dreaded FCC police who is checking whether Jamie's sober to drunk listenership ratio is high ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:56:56
Caption: Vaudeville
This program is devoted to several vaudeville performers who were forced to ply their trade elsewhere when silent movies and Broadway reviews close...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Valentine
Love songs from the 1920s featuring Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Josephine Baker, and many more.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Don Redman
Don Redman was a trendsetter, and inspiration for early jazz. His talents extended to trumpet, piano, alto saxophone, and oboe, but his primary inf...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1