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OTRR This Is Jazz Singles

(4,5 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)

THIS IS JAZZ Premiering on January 18, 1947, host Rudi Blesh’s This Is Jazz aired until October 4 of the same year. Blesh was a jazz historian, commentator, and promoter with a special interest in earlier jazz tunes and performers. His first book, Shining Trumpets , was published in 1946, a year before his radio series. This Is Jazz originated from New York’s WOR and was broadcast over the Mutual network as an unsponsored program. The series’ 35 episodes were later released by the Jazzology record label. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here . This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

First Song - High Society

28:30

First Song - Muskrat Ramble

27:35

First Song - Bugle Call Rag

29:10

First Song - That's A Plenty

28:26

First Song - At the Jazz Band Ball

29:35

First Song - That Da Da Strain

28:22

First Song - Sensation Rag

28:39

First Song - The Shiek of Araby

28:52

First Song - Sweet Georgia Brown

29:19

First Song - There'll Be Some Changes Made

29:25

First Song - Maple Leaf Rag

29:00

First Song - When the Saints Go Marching In

29:22

First Song - Everybody Loves My Baby

29:01

First Song - St. Louis Blues

29:01

First Song - The Original Dixieland One-Step

29:47

First Song - I'm Crazy About My Baby

29:54

First Song - The Ostrich Waltz

28:56

First Song - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

29:10

First Song - Fidgety Feet

26:36

First Song - Panama Rag

27:01

First Song - Shine

29:29

First Song - Rosetta

29:32

First Song - Alexander's Ragtime Band

30:19

First Song - Twelfth Street Rag

29:47

First Song - That Eccentric Rag

29:42

First Song - I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like I Love You

29:36

First Song - Oh, Didn't He Ramble

29:44

First Song - Cake Walking Babies

29:52

First Song - Ballin' the Jack

29:23

First Song - At the Jazz Band Ball

28:22

First Song - Clarinet Marmalade

29:48

First Song - The Crazy Blues

29:12

First Song - Back Home In Indiana

29:12

First Song - Jazz Me Blues

29:38

First Song - Sensation Rag

30:11

Bewertungen

You can learn a great deal about Jazz from this show

(5 Sterne)

Sounds almost like a College Class in Jazz History for an audience... Rudi Blesh is a recognized writer and historian in the field, and his treatment is thoroughly "about the facts..." and shows his love of the great American musical form. Lotta good music here, and seems like it's an early BBS/PBS idea, IMHO. See the book that followed for similar history, at Rudi's link https://archive.org/search?query=blesh%2C+rudi As for the Jubilee comment, it was much more a show of entertainment with the stars themselves, so makes for more hip live music by the greats, and patter along the way. There are two versions on Internet Archive, which seem, from the glitch in the first episode, to be from the same classic source. Here's one link. This one has more of a history of the show. https://archive.org/details/jubilee_202008/421009_001_Duke_Ellington_Ethel_Waters.mp3

Not quite as good as Jubilee but...

(4 Sterne)

there are a few 'name' jazz heroes here, including; Per RadioGoldIndex: Sidney Bechet featured on eps 3/1/47 3/24/47 4/19 5/24 7/12 8/02 10/04 Kid Ory: 8/09/47 Leadbelly 6/14/47 Canada Lee (Cry The Beloved Country, Lifeboat) 5/31/47 Episode 12 - April 26, 1947 Louis Armstrong and band - When The Saints... Bertha Chippie Hill https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?query=Bertha+Hill 7/5/47 7/19/47 7/26/47 8/30/47