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Steve Edwards Soul Show Edition (13) Best Of The 1st Qtr plus UK Spotlight In Soul Featuring Loose Ends Hr 1
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
Caption: Host/Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
Its a musical celebration with the songs that took us through the 1st Quarter of the 2012 series.Soul In Jazz Pt 2 and The Final Of Our UK Spotligh...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:18
Episode #100 - Big Jay McNeely
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat is joined by the greatest of all the West Coast Sax Honkers, Big Jay McNeely. You'll hear Big Jay tell his story in his own words as ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
The Steve Edwards Soul Show(5) Tribute to Don Cornelius Pt2 and The Fusion Special
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
Caption: Host / Don Cornelius
A wrap of the musical tributes and trivia for Soul Train host Don Cornelius plus for the Jazz lovers the display of the best fusion on the planet ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:05
Episode #099 - Lucky Millinder
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" is loaded this week with records by one of R&B's greatest and most underrated bandleaders, Lucky Millinder. He worked with v...

Bought by KMUW, 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Mar 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Steve Edwards Soul Show Blues Meets Soul (2) 2012 Series Pt2 Featuring Mellow Moments and the Triple Stack Live!
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
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More essential listening as Mellow Moments 2 rolls in with the soulful blues vibes of Shemekia Copeland, daughter of bluesman Johnny Copeland plu...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 53:37
Episode #098 - Chuck Berry: His First Year
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, Matt The Cat looks at Chuck Berry's very first year of recording, featuring everything he recorded between May, 1955 and April, 1956. Y...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4
The Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series (9) Featuring the UK Spotlight In Soul Pt 1
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
Caption: Host/producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
This hour of the Steve Edwards Soul show displays its primary focus on the music and highlights some of the classic stablemates in british soul mus...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:17
Episode #097 - The Swallows
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Eddie Rich, the original lead tenor of The Swallows, one of the greatest and most underrated R&B vocal groups of the 1950s joins Matt The Cat for a...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Mar 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #096 - Chuck Willis: Part 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
"Juke" completes its 2 part special on the great Chuck Willis. This week, in part 2, we focus on Chuck's amazing crossover success in the late 1950...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Mar 04, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Johnny & Tiny
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Istock Photo
Two legendary figures in early jazz: Johnny Dodds and Tiny Parham. They were at the center of the evolving new music of the 1920s, and contributed ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Bay Area Beats: Jazz legend Bobby Hutcherson tells his story
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
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For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:57
Episode #095 - Chuck Willis: Part 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke" features part 1 of a 2 part special on the great and much underrated Chuck Willis. Most cats n' chicks know Chuck's 1957 smas...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Feb 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Noble Cause
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
Bandleader, vocalist, pianist and composer Noble Sissle began his career in 1915 when he joined ragtime-vaudevillian Eubie Blake. Together they wr...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Episode #094 - 1952: Jukebox Rhythm Review Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as the "Juke In The Back" features part 2 of a part series on the biggest R&B jukebox hits of 1952!

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
On a String
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson 1920s
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Episode #093 - 1952: Jukebox Rhythm Review Pt. 1
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as we feature part one of a two part series on the top R&B jukebox hits of 1952.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Feb 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #092 - T-Bone Walker
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Drop a nickel in the ol' Rockola Juke to hear one of the best selling and most influential bluesmen and guitarists of all-time, T-Bone Walker. This...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sid & Josephine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Josephine Baker
Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
Episode #091 - Etta James
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Etta James was one of the grittiest and most influential R&B singer of all-time. We lost her on January 20th at the age of 73. This week, Matt Th...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WRNC-LP, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jan 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #090 - Johnny Otis
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Johnny Otis was one of the most important figures in rhythm & blues and contributed greatly to the birth of rock n' roll. He passed away on Tuesda...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, KKRN, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #089 - Hadda Brooks
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The "Juke In The Back" is jumpin' this week with one of the most underrated boogie woogie piano ladies of all-time, Hadda Brooks. You'll hear a lot...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KPVL, and 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jan 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode #088 - Duke / Peacock Records Story
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with records from the catalog of Duke/Peacock Records. Don Robey created one of the great R&B la...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WCPN, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #087 - Early Solomon Burke
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week we solute Solomon Burke, the "King of Rock n' Soul and the "Juke In The Back" is loaded with his very first recordings from 1955 to 1960....

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KPVL


  • Added: Jan 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Juke In The Back #086 - Christmas Leftovers & New Year's Resolutions
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Ba...

Bought by KMXT, KPIP-LP, KMUW, KREV-LP, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Dec 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Juke In The Back #085 - R&B Christmas
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
The entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with the greatest R&B Christmas records from the late 1940s and 1950s. It's the yuletide soul that came bef...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KMXT, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7

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