PRX - Pieces for Format: Debut (not aired nationally)
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Jazz and cartoons were a perfect match made in ‘toon heaven in the early years of animation.
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- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Interactive media means bringing in the least and most uncommon denominators so to do interactive radio, it's gotta be really simple. Especially S...
- Added: Aug 28, 2016
- Length: 02:55:53
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
Saturday midnight? It's driving song with the radio on but "no particular place to go." Might as well make it down to New Orleans where the sight...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 02:54:37
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...
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- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Here’s another look at the extraordinary talents of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller, with more humorous stories from behind the scenes.
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- Added: Sep 13, 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...
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- 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...
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- 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 ...
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- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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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...
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- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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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...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...
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- Added: Mar 26, 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
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...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 58:57
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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 ...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1