The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
Jazz Roots with Tom Morgan
WWOZ-FM
2006 [JR-0009]
New Orleans, LA
Tom Morgan is an award-winning jazz historian and community broadcaster usually heard on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans. Recently Tom was unjustly suspended from the air after being attacked in the studio at shift change by another deejay. While Tom’s off the air in New Orleans we have decided to double his airtime on Radio Free Amsterdam and will be running his New Orleans Music Show archives every Tuesday and his Jazz Roots show every Wednesday this fall until he is reinstated.
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This week’s Jazz Roots Radio Show begins with a series of George Gershwin piano rolls from 1919-25, then a complete “Rhapsody in Blue” as premiered by Paul Whiteman’s orchestra at Aeolian Hall and assembled here from two sessions in 1925 and 1927. The spotlight turns to the Louisiana Rhythm Kings recorded on Vocalion in 1929-30 with Red Nichols at the helm and featured musicians Glenn Miller, Vic Burton, Jack Teagarden, Joe Sullivan, Dave Tough, Red Nichols, PeeWee Rusell and Jimmy Dorsey. The Rhythm Kings complete their set on the next episode of Jazz Roots.
Playlist 09
[01] Opening Music by Duke Ellington
[02] Tom Morgan Intro & Comments re: George Gershwin
[03] George Gershwin: Novelette in Fourths
[04] George Gershwin: Kickin’ the Clouds Away
[05] George Gershwin: Scandal Walk
[06] Tom Morgan Comments re: George Gershwin piano rolls
[07] George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Part 1)
[08] George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Part 2)
[09] Tom Morgan Comments re: George Gershwin, Red Nichols
[10] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Futuristic Rhythm
[11] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: That’s A-Plenty
[12] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: I’m Walking Through Clover, I’m Happy in Love
[13] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Basin Street Blues
[14] Tom Morgan Comments re: Louisiana Rhythm Kings, John R.T. Davies
[15] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Waiting at the End of the Road
[16] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Mary Ann
[17] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Squeeze Me
[18] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Sweet Sue, Just You
[19] Tom Morgan Comments re: Louisiana Rhythm Kings
[20] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: I Have to Have You
[21] Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Lazy Daddy
[22] Tom Morgan Comments, Outro & ID
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Tom Morgan for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, engineered & recorded by Tom Morgan at WWOZ-FM, New Orleans
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden
Editing, post-production & annotation by John Sinclair
© 2010 Tom Morgan. Used with permission.
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