First Song - Muskrat Ramble

Here's a hot cornettist who is an idol of Americans young and old, Muggsy Spannier. And here's a New Orleans clarinetist that is known the world over, Albert Nicholas. And here's another crescent city boy whose trombone has been a part of jazz history, George Brunies.

Old New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, also gets us our guitarist, Danny Barker. And out of New Orleans 30 years ago, a Mississippi River boat bound for Chicago, carried one of the greatest of all jazz drummer, baby Dodd.

For 40 years from Harlem to Hollywood, a people have applauded as they still do, the parlor social playing, the catchy ragtime piano of Lucky Roberts. and equally famous for as many years has been an outstanding bass and tuba player known popularly as bass horned sire, Cyrus St. Clair.

There you heard little bits of music, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Now true jazz men have always known just how to fit these strange pieces together into music. So listen now as the pieces get assembled and joined together in the old Kidori Classic, Muskrat Ram Ball. Think of St. Louis Blues, think of Memphis Blues, of Wolverine

Blues, and you're really thinking of jazz. In New Orleans before the First World War, everyone was thinking about the dancing jitterbugs of that day. Jazzing Babies Blues, I was the name of the tune then and the great bands like those of Kidori and King Oliver all played In 1921 in Chicago at Friars Inn, the New Orleans rhythm kings gave the music a new twist and

called a tin roof blues. So all of our jazz men will play it now with Brunies and original member of the rhythm kings doing the vocal. Tin Roof Blues. F C, the boy lies burning up and down.