Radio Free Amsterdam

WWOZ-FM, New Orleans
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 [JR-080109-2]
Classics from the First 40 Years of Jazz Recording

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 1992.

He has lectured at numerous colleges and schools about jazz and blues and owns an extensive collection of early African American written sheet music. In 1996, he was an Associate Editor and major contributor for the African American Culture Volume of the “Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture,” published by Manly, Inc. For this project, he was in charge of all the musical entries.

Tom’s award winning early jazz web site, Jazz Roots, is available at jass.com.

Playlist #46

[01] Theme: Duke Ellington: Double Check Stomp with Tom Morgan Intro
[02] Blue Lu Barker: You Gotta Show It to Me Baby
[03] Blue Lu Barker: Don’t You Feel My Leg
[04] Blue Lu Barker: There Was a Little Mouse
[05] Blue Lu Barker: That Made Him Mad
[06] Tom Morgan Comments
[07] Blue Lu Barker: Layin’ in Jail
[08] Blue Lu Barker: Where’s Joe
[09] Blue Lu Barker: I Feel Like Layin’ in Another Woman’s Husband’s Arms
[10] Blue Lu Barker: Buy Me Some Juice
[11] Tom Morgan ID & Comments
[12] Danny Barker with Leroy Parkins & Yazoo River Jazz Band: Careless Love
[13] Danny Barker with Leroy Parkins & Yazoo River Jazz Band: Ham & Eggs
[14] Danny Barker with Leroy Parkins & Yazoo River Jazz Band: Li’l Liza Jane
[15] Tom Morgan Comments & Conversation with Jason Patterson
[16] Danny Barker: Save the Bones
[17] Danny Barker: St. James Infirmary
[18] Tom Morgan Closing Comments over Theme Music
[19] Danny Barker & His Creole Cats: Indian Red

Hosted by Tom Morgan for WWOZ-FM, New Orleans
Produced, engineered & recorded by Tom Morgan
Editing & post-production by John Sinclair
Mastered by Henk Botwinik
Posted by Larry Hayden
Annotated by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam

© 2008 Tom Morgan, Used with permission.

 

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