Radio Free Amsterdam

WWOZ-FM, New Orleans
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 [JR-080116-1]
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 #47

[01] Theme: Duke Ellington: Double Check Stomp with Tom Morgan Intro
[02] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: Clarinet Marmalade
[03] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: Ostrich Walk
[04] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: For No Reason at All in C
[06] Tom Morgan ID & Comments
[07] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: In a Mist
[08] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: Blue River
[09] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: Wringin’ and Twistin’
[10] Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Biederbecke: Krazy Kat
[11] Tom Morgan Comments
[12] Dick McDonough Orchestra with Bunny Berigan: I’m One Step Ahead of
My Shadow
[13] Dick McDonough Orchestra with Bunny Berigan: That Foolish Feeling
[14] Bunny Berigan Orchestra: Where Are You?
[15] Bunny Berigan Orchestra: In a Little Spanish Town
[16] Tom Morgan ID & Comments
[17] Bunny Berigan Orchestra: The Gonna-Goo
[18] Bunny Berigan Orchestra: Who’s Afraid of Love
[19] Bunny Berigan Orchestra: One in a Million
[20] Bunny Berigan Orchestra: Blue Lou
[21] Tom Morgan ID & Comments
[22] Pearl Bailey: Fifteen Years and I’m Still Serving Time

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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