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Like a Comet Streaking Across the Sky: The Investigative Journalism of Eva Valesh
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Eva Gay
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 18:19
EP219 Katie Webster
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A look back at the "Swamp Boogie Queen"

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 1
Bix & the Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Although Bix Beiderbecke’s career spanned less than a decade, his influence on future cornetists lasted generations. What is not surprising is the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Red by Red
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Henry Allen
Two popular musicians who added to the legacy of jazz through their colorful musical personalities. Henry “Red” and Loring “Red” Nichols. Vastly di...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Small Labels
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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As the decades of the 1920 began, so did a plethora of brand-new small label recording studios. They, indeed, grabbed the attention of jazz musicia...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Pugilist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy McPartland
When Cornetist Jimmy McPartland was growing up in west side Chicago, He was constantly finding he was at odds with the law. He says, if it wasn’t f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Marcia Ratliff of Engage Winona
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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This Thursday on Culture Clique KQAL’s Jiovani Bermudez visits with Marcia Ratliff, the Executive Director of Engage Winona. Engage Winona is a loc...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 22:01
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Quoting in Rhythm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Zutty Singleton
One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Francis Adams – "Are We Still Racists?"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man’s Land, 1619 to 2000 “Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 1
EP218 "From the Cradle" Eric Clapton
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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A look back at Eric Clapton's 1994 album "From the Cradle"

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas with the Club
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas Wish
Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
EP216 Hubert Sumlin
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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He was ranked as #43 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time. That is a great legacy to leave behind.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Gantos – "How Prison Affected One Man’s Life"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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A Hole In My Life Have you ever been incarcerated? Locked in a prison cell for a number of years? That is what happened to Jack Gantos for being ...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Jazz Dance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dance
In the 1920s, dozens of new dances were introduced to a dance hungry public. From America to Europe, people were feeling the rhythm in their feet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Freddie Keppard
The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP213 Magic Slim
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Magic Slim and the Teardrops stayed true to the sound of Chicago Blues

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
EP212 Luther Allison
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Luther Allison took Blues to a new level, yet stayed true to it's roots.

Bought by WLPR and WLPR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
New Orleans Horns
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sizzling Syncopators
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jed Barahal– "Cellist Extraordinaire"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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In this edition of Radio Curious, we take a look at the cello, the kind of musical instrument it is and the sounds it makes. My guest is Jed Baraha...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Big Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington Orchesrtra
Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
KC Gems
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Benny Moton Orchestra
Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Songster
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
Before there can be a singer there has to be a lyricist. Fortunately, the 1920s were rich in the number of creative wordsmiths. Not to mention the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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