OTRR This Is Jazz Singles

Rudi Blesh

(4.5 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)

This Is Jazz premiered on January 18, 1947, and aired until October 4 of the same year. Hosted by jazz historian Rudi Blesh, the program focused on earlier jazz tunes and performers. Blesh, who published his first book, Shining Trumpets, in 1946, brought his passion for jazz to the airwaves.

The series originated from New York’s WOR and was broadcast over the Mutual network as an unsponsored program. With a total of 35 episodes, This Is Jazz was later released by the Jazzology record label.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Kapitel

High Society	28:30
Muskrat Ramble	27:35
Bugle Call Rag	29:10
That's A Plenty	28:26
At the Jazz Band Ball	29:35
That Da Da Strain	28:22
Sensation Rag	28:39
The Shiek of Araby	28:52
Sweet Georgia Brown	29:19
There'll Be Some Changes Made	29:25
Maple Leaf Rag	29:00
When the Saints Go Marching In	29:22
Everybody Loves My Baby	29:01
St. Louis Blues	29:01
The Original Dixieland One-Step	29:47
I'm Crazy About My Baby	29:54
The Ostrich Waltz	28:56
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate	29:10
Fidgety Feet	26:36
Panama Rag	27:01
Shine	29:29
Rosetta	29:32
Alexander's Ragtime Band	30:19
Twelfth Street Rag	29:47
That Eccentric Rag	29:42
I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like I Love You	29:36
Oh, Didn't He Ramble	29:44
Cake Walking Babies	29:52
Ballin' the Jack	29:23
At the Jazz Band Ball	28:22
Clarinet Marmalade	29:48
The Crazy Blues	29:12
Back Home In Indiana	29:12
Jazz Me Blues	29:38
Sensation Rag	30:11

Bewertungen

Not quite as good as Jubilee but...

(4 Sterne)

MPDMedia

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

You can learn a great deal about Jazz from this show

(5 Sterne)

Den NC USA

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