OTRR This Is Jazz Singles

(4.5 stars; 2 reviews)

THIS IS JAZZ Premiering on January 18, 1947, host Rudi Blesh’s This Is Jazz aired until October 4 of the same year. Blesh was a jazz historian, commentator, and promoter with a special interest in earlier jazz tunes and performers. His first book, Shining Trumpets , was published in 1946, a year before his radio series. This Is Jazz originated from New York’s WOR and was broadcast over the Mutual network as an unsponsored program. The series’ 35 episodes were later released by the Jazzology record label. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here . This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

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

Reviews

You can learn a great deal about Jazz from this show

(5 stars)

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

Not quite as good as Jubilee but...

(4 stars)

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