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WE MAY BE ARCHED, WE MAY BE SCANT...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Here is one of the overlooked jazz pianists who, if he's lived beyond his 30-years, would rank with Early Hines and Count Basie. Very little is kn...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:02
Caption: Jimbo Mathus
Our second annual Delta Music Show, featuring singer/songwriter and Delta bluesman Jimbo Mathus singing and telling stories. True stories told by t...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Held Jr.
Whenever bandleader Ed Kirkeby wanted his band to record for another label, he’d tag them with another name. Hence: The Golden Gate Orchestra. An...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 58:56

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mr. Jones on the course, Credit: Mason Sand
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
Caption: Eddie Condon
New Orleans, Chicago and New York were the primary hubs for jazz by the mid 1920s. The influences from each location enriched the result. Musicians...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jelly Roll Morton
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

  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Frankie Teschmacher
When Kansas City born Frankie Teschmacher joined the Austin High Gang in the mid-1920s, his instrument of choice was alto saxophone. But, in his yo...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:57

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: London of the 1920s
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

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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HERE WHERE LETTERS AND NUMBERS MERGE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:01

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Adrain Rollini
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

  • Added: Mar 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
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Caption: Ted Lewis & his ubiquitous silk hat
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
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ARRIVING LIKE KING OF THE JUNGLE...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1