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From KXCI's youth broadcasting team, DJ Vu and DJ Carrot talk about some of their favorite spooky season music, videos, and candy!
- Added: Oct 27, 2022
- Length: 04:02
Pianist and bandleader Oliver Naylor formed his own band in 1923, and a year later entered the Gennett Studios to record his first session.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 10, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Overlooked as a gathering place for hot jazz in the 1920s, the Southwest sported some excellent musicians. Many went on to successful careers in th...
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- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
On the one had, you can say that pianist and arranger Joe Robichaux was a New Orleans musician, on the other, his unique sound set him apart from h...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- 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...
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- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...
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- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Singer, songwriter, pianist, singer and vaudeville and minstrel performer Perry Bradford, forever changed the sound of American popular music by co...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 1
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Benny Moten led the Kansas City Orchestra in the 1920s, arguably the most influential big bands of the era. His arrangements helped to create what...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- 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
An essay on how to unplug and gain balance during the holiday season by watching classic holiday films.
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 12:26
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
- Purchases: 1
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 58:54
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 47:21
MOVIE TICKET RADIO(TM)-CLASSIC version: If you or your listeners go the cinema, rent DVD’s or on-demand films, watch premium movie channels like H...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 02:05:59
MOVIE TICKET RADIO(TM)-POP version: If you or your listeners go the cinema, rent DVD’s or on-demand films, watch premium movie channels like HBO a...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 02:02:13
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
No one questions the fact that Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was, in all likelihood, the first arranger of jazz. It’s also true that Jelly Roll was...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...
- Added: Mar 30, 2012
- Length: 59:00
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
From: Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards Soul show 2012 series is a breath of fresh air to the world of Public radio! The original series aired for 3 years nationally on the ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2012
- Length: 59:23
