PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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This program is devoted to several vaudeville performers who were forced to ply their trade elsewhere when silent movies and Broadway reviews close...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In the latter days of the Golden Age of steamboats, many musicians plied their trade with the orchestras traveling the Mississippi. Memphis and St....
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Stanley “Fess” Williams earned his nickname from his six years teaching music. Although he taught early elements of jazz, you can believe he also i...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 25, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Under the leadership of guitarist Jack Bland, The Rhythmakers constituted one of the more exciting bands of the 1930s boasting a lineup that includ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Ferrato's Later On Decatur and a round of "before they were."
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 02:38:09
There is the Near South Side, The Loop, Uptown, and South Side. The hot spots for finding jazz clubs and speakeasies will to violate prohibition d...
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 03:10:23
- Added: Aug 09, 2006
- Length: 01:05:09
