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Jazz Roots is written, produced, engineered, recorded and edited by Tom Morgan at WWOZ Radio and Elysian Fields Studio in New Orleans. The program is focused on jazz music from its first 40 years, specializing in the 1920s and ’30s.A new episode is podcast every other Wednesday at www.RadioFreeAmsterdam.com
Jazz Roots #8 opens up with the […]

 

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Tom’s opening set today features recordings by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra with Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman, and Buster Bailey, made for Vocalion (as the Dixie Stompers) and Harmony Records in 1925. Redman is featured on vocals with the Dixie Stompers in what Morgan refers to as the early roots of rap music. There’s a lot […]

 

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Tom Morgan is a writer, radio producer and webmaster living in New Orleans.
Tom’s opening set today features 1937-38 recordings by the Milt Hearth Trio with Milt on organ & vocals, Willie “The Lion” Smith countering on piano, Teddy Bunn on guitar & vocals, and the great O’Neill Spencer, drums & vocals. The spotlight turns to […]

 

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Tom Morgan is a writer, radio producer and webmaster living in New Orleans.
His first book, “From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music: From 1895 to 1930,” published by Elliott and Clark, was awarded second place in the Ralph Gleason Music Book Awards for the best music books published in […]

 

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