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Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Sammy Marques
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 26:21
All Mixed Up-From Me To You
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Take Me With You...
Here's the latest program, a musical journey through the past and present into possible future entertainment

  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:31
Place to Place
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s record shop
Interesting that there was an abundance of songs in the 1920s about places: streets, venues, cities and states. The musicians identified, through t...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Decade Like No Other
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Twenty years into the 19th Century there was a string of something new. Cars, fashion, flight, and the arts and entertainment, including talking mo...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reeds-A-Plenty Part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jimmy Dorsey
This program takes us through the later 1920s to the ‘30s, with the clarinet of Jimmy Dorsey’s creativity to the influence of tenor saxophone of Co...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Louis Hayes, Credit: Janette Beckman
Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes talks about his long and distinguished career as a musician.

Bought by WDCB, KMUW, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 6
Reeds-A-Plenty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon
As jazz evolved over its first decade, the clarinet was the primary wind-instrument. But, when the music reached Chicago, the saxophone, more speci...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bringing a Harlem Renaissance Playwright to the Stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Timothy Johnson
Director Timothy Johnson talks about bringing the brilliant work of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence to the stage.

Bought by WDCB, WSLR, RADIOLEX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
Southern Hospitality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s jazz band
Southern Hospitality: The term conjures up wonderful images. Primary on the list is it’s the birthplace of jazz. The program is devoted to the mus...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bix & the Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
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
Science, Art, and Dr. Alan Lightman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Small Labels
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Piece image
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 Foley Guy, A Romance
From: Johanna Beale Keller
Caption: The Foley Guy, A Romance
WINNER of the 2023 Atlanta Fringe Audio Critics' Choice Award, as well as Best Writing, Best Mixing & Most Creative! The judges said "I LOVED THE H...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 19:33
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
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.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • 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
Lost Chords part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini
In the early 1990s, jazz trumpet Richard Sudhalter decided he needed to correct, what he perceived as a historical error: that the White jazz music...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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

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