JAZZ RHYTHM: Jumping Swing, Classic Blues and Hot Jazz: Old and New
JAZZ RHYTHM explores the lore, culture and personalities of early jazz bringing you the colorful characters, inside stories, that define the origin, growth and worldwide spread of jazz music: America's most original contribution to world culture.
After three decades, I’ve renewed and expanded my mission: offering content advancing our understanding and enjoyment of early Jazz, Swing and Blues. The pages and programs contain a great deal of rare archival music, interviews, primary sources, and articles from collaborators worldwide.
JAZZ RHYTHM aims to significantly enrich our understanding of early jazz before 1960. Newly available programs and pages are thoroughly researched, offering rich online resources for exploration and interaction.
The broadcast programs are underpinned and expanded by these pages, onnline archives and unique online resources for further exploration.
New 5.18.14 JAZZ RHYTHM EXCLUSIVE:
The Janis Joplin Jazz tapes. Joplin was taped in 1963 & 1965 with Dick Oxtot jazz bands in the San Francisco area. A raw young talent, she had an unmistakable feeling for
the blues. These tapes restore missing jazz horn solos.
June 1, 2014 New and exclusive!
Yerba Buena Jazz Band (A reassessment of the West Coast Traditional Jazz rebellion of the Forties is accompanied by fresh transfers of unissued live performance discs.)
YBJB - Phil Elwood (His legendary broadcasts of 1957/66 celebrating Yerba Buena.)
NEW AND RECENT:
Writing and Essays (My carefully crafted essays and recollections. Not jazz-related.)
Earl Scheelar (Outstanding classic jazz cornet and clarinet player; exclusive audio content)
Pier 23 tapes - Exciting new transcription of a live KOFY broadcast from Pier 23 (c. 1959). Featuring Erickson (trumpet), Frank Goudie (clarinet), Bob Mielke (trombone), and vocals by pianist Burt Bales and banjo player, Dick Oxtot. Extremely rare!
The Radlauer books (Not Jazz-related: a convenient place for me to offer to enthusiasts of the books about motorsports written by my late parents, Ed and Ruth Radlauer scans of some of their books.)
Bill Dart (remembrance of the drummer for Yerba Buena Jazz Band)
Andre Ekyan (French alto sax jazz pioneer, Django associate)
Bunk Johnson (re-discovery of this early New Orleans trumpet player launched the New Orleans revival)
Pier 23 tapes (rare performances of Ray Ronnei, Frank Goudie, Jim Leigh and Bill Erickson)
Vince Cattolica (one of San Francisco's best, and best-loved clarinet players)
