Real Jazz Talk

Jazz has achieved preeminence throughout the world as an indigenous American music and art form, bringing to this country and the world a uniquely American musical synthesis and culture through the African-American experience and  jazz is hereby designated as a rare and valuable national American treasure to which we should devote our attention, support and resources to make certain it is preserved, understood and promulgated.   Jazz Musicians! You are an American National Treasure. Your contributions are invaluable. Are you being compensated accordingly? Join the conversation. Spread the word! What is your 2013 Jazz net worth? ** We experienced a technical issue at the end of the broadcast. We appologize for the inconvenience. We are working to resolve the issue for future episodes. **

As the swinging syncopation of jazz  lingers in the background, mirroring our rallying cry for forward motion of our continued struggle....We stand together....and our collective voices and our American treasures are heard. In Jazz as in the nation...... "We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions" - President Barak Obama From this prospective let's continue Real Jazz Talk!

The History of Hot Jazz.....Featuring "Papa" Jack Laine. He is often credited with being the first White Jazz musician. He was a drummer and saxophonist. He formed his first brass band in 1888. The band performed Ragtime and marching music. He went on to lead the Reliance Brass Band, which became popular enough for him to have several units playing under that name. Many of the early New Orleans White Jazz musicians such as Tom Brown, Johnny Stein, Albert and George Brunies, Tony Parenti, Nick La Rocca and all of the other members of the Original Dixleland Jass Band played in the Reliance Brass Band at one time or the other. In 1917, Laine quit music and worked as a blacksmith, and later managed a garage. He never recorded. But his poalce in history is forever etched in the annuls of Jazz....Stay Tuned

With Special Guests: Lorrain Stone, Jounalist and Radam Schwartz, Jazz Organist and Music Educator Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer whose style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid 1950s, she gained fame with hits such as "Dance With Me, Henry", "At Last", "Tell Mama", and "I'd Rather Go Blind" and resurgenced in the late 1980s with the album, The Seven Year Itch. She is regarded as having bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and is the winner of six Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards Tonight We celebrate her Stay Tuned......

Relax and enjoy the smooth sounds of Jazz and  R&B.....and beyond

A prolific performer who began by playing in New Orleans brothels, Jelly Roll Morton combined ragtime with various other musical styles, including blues, minstrel show tunes, Hispanic music, and white popular songs. His virtuosity at the piano, and his mixture of composition and improvisation had a lasting effect on jazz performance. Near the end of his life, folklorist Alan Lomax recorded a series of interviews with the pianist. To this day, the recordings of Morton speaking about his early days in New Orleans, and playing examples of various musical styles, provide a valuable glimpse into the beginnings of jazz.   Source: Jacob Teichrowe

Jazz was still in its pupal stage in the first decade of the 20th century. Some of the first jazz icons were born in the between 1886 and 1897. In this epsode we will explore the lives and music of :  Scott Joplin  Charles "Buddy" Bolden    Joe "King" Oliver     In a matter of years, jazz began to capture the nation’s attention. Improvisation became a featured element of the music, and dance halls began to fill with audiences eager to hear this hot new music. Stay Tuned.....

Let's continue the conversation................

The Trends, People and Events that Sparked the Emergence of Jazz When West African tribes were brought to the New World in chains, they carried their music and traditions with them. The powerful rhythms of African percussion influenced American music. Slave work songs were created in the African tradition of call-and-response. Spirituals and work songs are part of the foundation of the American art form, known as jazz. Also, in the early 1890s the blues emerged from these traditions. In performing the blues, singers used the power of their voices to express their feelings. In the mid to late 1800s, many Europeans immigrated to America's cities seeking their fortunes in the New World. French quadrilles, Spanish flamenco, Irish jigs, German waltzes and many more musical traditions arrived in our cities and ports. Popular song was divided into a number of different genres, they included Male Quarters, Parlor Ballads, Minstrel Songs, Broadway Show Tunes, Topical Songs, Brass Band Music and Blues. Just prior to and during the period of World War I, The Creole Band, a group made up of black New Orleans musicians, was part of a touring vaudeville company that brought jazz music to many parts of the country. What are the ingredients that make a song into a “jazz standard”? Generally, a contributing factor to a song becoming a standard is due to an important jazz recording, and then America would feel the effects of a prohibition upon alcoholic beverages, a unique experiment that did little to quell American’s taste for liquor but helped to bolster live music. Stay tuned as we dig deep inside  “The Swinging Big Bang”