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At the Jazz Band Ball

Kevin McLaughlin

Early jazz and commentary. Substack:kevinmclaughlin.substack.comDonate:https://www.patreon.com/c/AttheJazzBandBall

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41:12

Jazz in 1925

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2025/01/08

Featuring: Louis Armstrong, California Ramblers, Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith.Songs: Dinah, Gut Bucket Blues, Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie!, Flamin' Mamie, Tea For Two, Squeeze Me, Davenport Blues, St. Louis Blues.

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51:51

Christmas Jazz 1920s 30s 40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/12/01

Holiday jazz featuring: Peggy Lee, Ella Logan, Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Julia Lee, Fletcher Henderson, Claude Thornhill, John Kirby, Putney Dandridge, and Fats Waller.Songs include: Jingle Bells, Winter Weather, Santa Claus Came in the Spring, There's Frost on the Moon, Every Day's a Holiday, Snowy Morning Blues, Snowfall, Arab Dance, Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Christmas Spirits, Chistmas Without Santa Claus.

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7:26

BONUS show - Christmas Jazz, 20s-40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/11/23

Bonus show, Christmas jazz 1940s. Featuring: Peggy Lee (with Art Lund and Benny Goodman): Winter Weather (1941) and Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends (1948): Christmas Spirits. Regular Christmas show to appear in a couple of weeks. Enjoy!

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42:19

Halloween Jazz - 1920s, 30s, 40s.

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/10/08

Jazz as "The Devil's Music," 1920s, 30s, 40s. Featuring: Louis Armstrong, Marion Harris, Fats Waller, Hot Lips Page, Jelly Roll Morton, Mildred Bailey, Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday.Songs: The Skeleton in the Closet, I'm a Jazz Vampire, Dry Bones, Skull Duggery, Boogaboo, Ghost of a Chance, Mr. Ghost is Going to Town, The Ghost of Smokey Joe, Haunted House Blues, Ghost of Yesterday,

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4:43

AJBB Extra! Bubber, Bix, and Hoagy.

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/09/21

AJBB Extra! Bubber, Bix, and Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra. "Rockin' Chair" (1930). What a band: Benny Goodman (Saxophone, Clarinet) Bud Freeman (Tenor Saxophone) Tommy Dorsey (Trombone) Jimmy Dorsey (Alto Saxophone) Jack Teagarden (Trombone) Bix Beiderbecke (Cornet) Bubber Miley (Trumpet) Joe Venuti (Violin) Irving Brodsky (Piano) Eddie Lang (Guitar) Gene Krupa (Drums). Enjoy!

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50:21

James P. Johnson

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/09/08

The Father of Stride Piano. Featuring: Carolina Shout, Harlem Strut, The Charleston, Jingles, Blue Spirit Blues, You've Got to be Modernistic, Snowy Morning Blues, Yamekraw.

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41:44

Fats Waller Duets

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/08/01

Featuring collaborations with: James P. Johnson, Alberta Hunter, Elizabeth Handy, Herman Autrey, Una Mae Carlisle, The Deep River Boys, Myra Johnson, Lee Wiley, Ada Brown.

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38:50

Fats Waller

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/07/12

Music's big bundle of joy. Featuring: I Ain't Got Nobody, Carolina Shout, That's All, Sugar, Squeeze Me, (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue, Ain't Misbehavin', Honeysuckle Rose, Then I'll Be Tired of you.

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44:09

The Empress

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/06/05

Bessie Smith (1894-1937), the Empress of the Blues. Featuring: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, St. Louis Blues, Beale Street Mama, Cake Walkin' Babies From Home, Backwater Blues, After You've Gone, Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer).

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42:57

Jazz Smiths

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/05/05

A prevalent American surname, ”Smith" also shows up frequently in jazz. Assembled together in one show, Bessie, Pinetop, Willie "The Lion," Viola, Stuff, Clara, Mamie, Trixie... make up an extraordinary lineup.

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45:28

Jazz trumpet, 1920s-40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/04/01

Great jazz trumpet playing from the 20s, 30s, and 40s, featuring: Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Bubber Miley, Roy Eldridge, Jabbo Smith, Hot Lips Page, and others.

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48:52

Ella Fitzgerald

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/03/11

A loving look at the career and times of The First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald. Featuring songs: Love and Kisses, A Tisket-A-Tasket, Flying Home, How High the Moon, Stompin' at the Savoy, Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.

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40:13

Early Cleveland Jazz

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/02/21

Live and early recorded jazz from Cleveland, OH. Featuring Andy Kirk, Woody Herman, Bix Beiderbecke, Will Marion Cook, Noble Sissle, Artie Shaw, Art Tatum, Perry Como, Tad Dameron, Sarah Vaughan,

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38:51

Jazz Soundies, 1940-46

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/02/05

Early music video soundtracks, 1940-1946, featuring: Louis Jordan, Duke Ellington, Roy Eldridge, Anita O'Day, The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, et al.

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42:39

Early Louis Armstrong, 1923-1930.

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/01/23

Louis Armstrong's earliest recorded solos resonated with personality, charisma, and rhythmic swing — enough to transform both instrumental and vocal jazz. Featuring "Chimes Blues," "Snake Rag," "Heebie Jeebies," "Sugar Foot Stomp," "West End Blues," and many others.

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38:17

Detroit Jazz Clubs, 1920s-40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2024/01/08

Detroit has a remarkable jazz tradition starting in the 1920s. Venues both palatial (Graystone, Fox, Club Plantation, Paradise) and small (Band Box, Palms) hosted great jazz. Featuring Jean Goldkette, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Chocolate Dandies, Earl Hines, and Billie Holiday.

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40:30

Christmas Jazz, 1920s-40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2023/11/30

Jazz and blues music from the 1920s-40s. Featuring: Louis Prima, Jack Teagarden, Bessie Smith, Elzadie Robinson, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, and others.

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41:59

Chicago Jazz Clubs, 1920s-40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2023/11/14

Chicago jazz and night clubs, from mob-protected speakeasies to the Dreamland Ballroom. Featuring: Joe King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, and Anita O'Day.

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38:11

New York Jazz Clubs, 1920s-40s

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2023/10/31

New York dance halls, jazz clubs, and speakeasies, in 1920s-40s. What did people hear at the Cotton Club? Connie's Inn? Small's Paradise? How about the Ubangi Club? What did the Savoy Ballroom sound like? Music by Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Bentley, and others.

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42:22

Bix Beiderbecke

At the Jazz Band Ball ·

2023/10/13

On today's show we'll appreciate Bix Beiderbecke, a shy young man with a horn from Davenport, IA, who lived just 28 years (1903-1931). He played cornet lyrically and deliberately. We'll listen to several memorable recordings made during this remarkable, too-brief career.

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