At the Jazz Band Ball

Jazz broadcasts, airchecks, and transcriptions from 1920s-40s

Jazz Remotes, Transcriptions, and Airchecks, 1920s-40s.

They met in Harlem in the 1930s and briefly overlapped in the Count Basie Orchestra. She called him “The President” — “Prez” — because she considered him the finest saxophonist of them all. He called her “Lady Day.”

At the Jazz Band Ball Ep. 49/ PRX 12 - Lady Day and Pres
Billie Holiday and Lester Young were contemporaries, and some said, jazz soul mates. They were never romantically linked, but two people more like of mind, you’d be hard pressed to name.

Pittsburgh jazz in the early and mid part of the 20th century. Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, Lena Horne, Billy Eckstine, Roy Eldridge, Maxine Sullivan, Erroll Garner, and others.

At the Jazz Band Ball - Kevin McLaughlin
Jazz spring songs 1920s-40s, and commentary.

Cleveland club hopping in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Visit the Majestic Hotel, East 55th and Central, The Palace Hotel on Public Square, Short Vincent, the Trianon Ballroom, Val’s in the Alley, and the Cleveland Public Auditorium, where Django Reinhardt made his American debut.

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Audio walking tour of Prohibition era Harlem, courtesy of illustrator E. Simms Campbell: A Night-Club Map of Harlem, 1932.

Music: Cab Calloway. "Minnie the Moocher" Presenting Cab Calloway & His Orchestra. Minnie the Moocher (Theme Song) (78rpm Version), 1932; Duke Ellington and His Washingtonians. "Choo-Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)" Choo Choo. Blue Disc, 5001, 1924; Cab Calloway. "Reefer Man" The Best of Cab Calloway (various) . RCA, 1931; Chick Webb and His Orchestra. "Harlem Congo" The Chick Webb Collection . GRP/Decca Jazz Heritage, 1937; Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday; dir. Fred Waller - "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life " Film short, music. Cult Cinema Classics, 1935; Gladys Bentley - "Worried Blues" (1928) - Roots 'N' Blues/The Retrospective 1925-1950; Fats Waller and His Buddies, "Harlem Fuss " Harlem Fuss. Victor V-38050-B, 1929; Nina Mae McKinney "Half of Me Wants to Be Good" Short film excerpt "The Black Network". Vitaphone, 1936; Garland Wilson, piano; Michel Warlop, violin "Limehouse Blues" Midnight Ivory - The Early Garland Wilson Recordings. ℗ 2025 Jazz Classics, 1938; Adelaide Hall. "As Time Goes By" Barry Humphries Presents So Rare 3. ℗ 2006 Bilarm Music Pty Ltd, 1943; Fats Waller and His Rhythm "Two Sleepy People " If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!. Bluebird/Legacy, 1938; Bert Williams "Nobody " Nobody. Columbia, 1913; Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, "Doin' The Lowdown" Doin' the Lowdown - 78 rpm. Brunswick 12810, 1932.

AT THE JAZZ BAND BALL - Ep. 44/ PRX #8

Episode Theme: Jazz in 1926

Total Running Time: Approx. 59 minutes

Theme Music: “Delta Serenade” (Duke Ellington) Music: Ethel Waters: A Hundred Years From Today (1933); Clarence Williams Blue Five (Eva Taylor, Louis Armstrong): "Squeeze Me" (1926), Fats Waller: Squeeze Me (1939); Jelly Roll Morton: "Black Bottom Stomp" (1926); Annette Hanshaw: "Black Bottom" (1926); Buffalodians (Jack McLaughlin, ldr, Harold Arlen, piano): "Here Comes Emaline" (1926); Buffalodians (Harold Arlen, voc): "How Many Times?" (1926 (Irving Berlin); Red Nichols and His Five Pennies: "Boneyard Shuffle" (Hoagy Carmichael) (1926); Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orchestra: “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo” (1926); Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orchestra: "Birmingham Breakdown" (1926); Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orchestra: "Immigration Blues" (1926); Joe Venuti, violin, and Eddie Lang, guitar: "Stringing the Blues (1926); Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five: "Heebie Jeebies" (1926); Ethel Waters: "Sugar" (1926); Ethel Waters: "Dinah" (1926).

MUSIC - Putney Dandridge - Santa Claus Came in the Spring (1935); Clarence Williams - Santa Claus Blues (1924); Bernie Cummins - I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You (1937); Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb - Holiday in Harlem (1937); James P. Johnson - Snowy Morning Blues (1943); Fats Waller - Winter Weather (1941); Ozie Ware, Duke Ellington Hot Five - Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back (1928); Elzadie Robinson - Santa Claus Crave (1927).