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Exploring the highways and byways of Classic Recorded Jazz - from the Ragtime era to the day before yesterday!
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Al Sudhalter - Boston Sax ! 1930's and 60's (opens the original)
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Al Sudhalter was one of the busiest musicians on the dance band scene in Boston in the 1920's and 30's . . .he refused chances to go to New York or London. Here is he heard in radio broadcasts on WNAC with a jam session group, Herb Marsh and His Orchestra and his own Voice of the Saxophone program from 1932. The rest is from several Ristic albums made in England in 1968 and 69 with the Anglo-American Alliance including his son, cornetist Dick Sudhalter, trombonist Keith Nichols, clarinetists Ray
Show - Jonah Jones 1953/54 with Sidney Bechet and others (opens the original)
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The great trumpeter Jones is here featured on two sides with Bechet for Blue Note (with Jimmy Archey, Wellman Braud, Manzie Johnson and Buddy Weed) and several for Vogue (with a French rhythm section including Andre Persiany) in addition to his own sextet recording for Bethlehem (with Edmond Hall, Vic Dickenson, Kenny Kersey, Pops Foster and Osie Johnson)
Show - Morning With Pops . . Louis Armstrong 1935 (opens the original)
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Louis' first recordings after his return from Europe in 1935 inaugurated his career as a crooner . . pop tunes featuring him with the Luis Russell band.
Morning with Pops - Louis and the Gershwins (opens the original)
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Recordings of a variety of Gershwin tunes featuring Louis Armstrong with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.
Show - Barrelhouse Piano Rolls! 1920-31 (opens the original)
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Many piano players took advantage of player-piano technology to record their own compositions during the Jazz and Blues era of the 1920's. While the playback didn't give a true sense of the performer (no dynamics), it can show a lot of what made those piano players integral to the New Orleans, New York and Chicago scenes. Featuring Clarence Jones, Clarence "Jelly" Johnson, Lem Fowler, Steve Lewis, Cow Cow Davenport and Hersal Thomas.
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