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Frequently, before a show could reach broadway, it had to pass through the musical review. This was both a vehicle for introducing new music, as we...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Two stand out musicians were also accomplished inventors. Jack Teagarden and Adrian Rollini. Jack was constantly tinkering with improvements to the...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 12, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not uncommon for musical talents to run in the family, but the Brunies team of New Orleans challenged the record. Six Brothers and one sister....
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 05, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The music known as jazz originated in New Orleans, but it wasn’t until musicians migrated to Chicago that it became the popular music of the 1920s.
- Added: May 29, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
There were several who sang with jazz groups in the 1920s, but very few composers and lyricists. Even fewer band leaders. Part of the reason was th...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KCBX
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
“The Misuse of the Trombone” Some music critics in the 1920s did not appreciate how the trombone was incorporated into jazz. The moans, whines, whi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This program moves around the horn, as it’s called in baseball, with Joe Venuti on 1st, Joe Sullivan, 2nd, Joe Mannone on 3rd, and Joe Tardo, home ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 01, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Knowledge, creativity, charisma, and endless energy are just a few qualities that make a good musical leader. If the leader can also arrange and co...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 50:26
- Purchases: 1
The 2016 Fargo Blues Festival in Fargo, North Dakota.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 54:48
Guitar Shorty is a veteran bluesman with a modern driving sound and pertinent lyrics for our day and age.
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 54:30
An exploration of the Harmonica as an instrument in the world of Blues music.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 57:03
- Purchases: 1
She had a singing voice and could belt out the blues like no other. Her last release ("Old School" on Alligator Records), before her passing in 200...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 58:42
- Purchases: 1
Associated with Pop Rock through commercial success in such type bands, Gary Moore's Heart was into the Blues more than anything.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:46
Mr. Jack shares his personal favorite BB King albums.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 54:46
Johnny Burgin has earned his name as The Worldwide West Side Guitar Man by performing up to 250 shows a year in Europe, Japan and coast to coast in...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:33
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has made it to the “big Leagues” of the music industry with his talents. He just released his first major label album o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 57:51
A great guitarist of the early electric blues sounds coming out of Chicago, Jody Williams tired of the corruption in the early music business being...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:01
Junior Wells was a large contributor to the "new" sound of the Chicago Blues after WWII. He was a highly sought after harmonica player in the early...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:38
From Blues beginnings to Rock, to Reggae, the Kinsey brothers have been in the music business since their youth inspired by their father Big Daddy ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:57
Keeping a traditional style of Blues alive through performances world-wide and many recordings, Catfish Keith is a unique artist in the world of Bl...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:58
An active musician in the world of Blues since he was a youth under his father's wings, Bernard Allison is still going strong after some 37 years o...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:52
Diane Blue has been a voice in the Blues music scene for years as a vocalist and harmonica player. This show highlights her solo career as well as ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:39
In 1971 one of the most successful "Blues" recording labels was founded. This show explores the early history of Alligator Records.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:04
This is a tribute to a few of the creative clarinetists of early jazz.
Two from New Orleans and one from Chicago: Johnny Dodds, Omer Simeon and Ben...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
