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Summer Fun
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Paul Robeson
Ah, summer, the shortest season of the year. Or, at least it seems that way. This show is devoted to a few really hot bands and vocalists who guar...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/15/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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PROCLAMATION CAVERNOUS ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz and Comedy
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz funnyman Cab Calloway
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KPVL, WOUB, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Exploring the Keys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Scott Joplin
This program is devoted to those pioneers of jazz piano from Scott Joplin to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/1/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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MY FIRST, THE LABOR ....

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Johnson's Jazzers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: James P. Johnson
Original stride pianist James P. Johnson began his professional recording career in 1916 with the Aeolian Company by recording several piano rolls....

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/25/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A FEARSOME FOE, THIS PHANTOM...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turn on the Heat
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sam Lanin
Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Staccato Cello Fortress
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: Cello Fortress Logo, Credit: Joost van Dongen
Cello Fortress us a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
Tom Owens, The Vegetarian
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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Our Killer meets her first victim

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/18/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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FINGERS WEAR TAP SHOES ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Puttin' On the Ritz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/11/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I BECOME POINTLESS ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Kid
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Kid Ory
By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/4/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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ROUND AS A TEAPOT ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Hawk: 40-years with Coleman Hawkins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Considered the first great tenor saxophonist in jazz, Coleman Hawkins was a child he was a gifted musician. In 1922, Mamie Smith spotted him in and...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/27/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE WORLD IS HELD ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Porch Swing: Episode 104
From: WFHB
Series: The Porch Swing
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Please don't feed the large reptiles! An American in Vienna finds herself at the bountiful mercy of strangers; A man seeking treatment for depressi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:03
The Porch Swing: Episode 103
From: WFHB
Series: The Porch Swing
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A woman finds refuge at a shelter for big cats; It's tough being a very tall person in a very small world; A chance encounter proves serendipitous ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 22:21
Billy Cotton: That Rhythm Man
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bandleader Billy Cotton
Despite the vast popularity of "That Rhythm Man," as Billy Cotton was known, his recognition did not reach the states like the bands lead by Ambros...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/20/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A LETTER MIDST THE CLOVER...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Uke
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Cliff Edwards with Ukelele
The ukulele became as commonplace in the American parlor as the piano in the 1920s. Today we think of the tiny guitar as a Hawaiian instrument, whe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 2: Soldier of Fortune
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/13/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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I DEPRIVE THE CAT...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Odd Couple
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1