First Song - Bugle Call Rag

This is jazz! This is jazz pure authentic jazz Improvised over the air by great jazz artists in person Rudy Blasch who writes an Irish program is a famed jazz artist and author of the recent book Shining Trumpets a colorful history of jazz Each week at this time he will bring you through jazz artists playing in person a solid half hour of the history of a Native American music

So here's another session of this is jazz and your narrator Rudy Blasch Thank you, all of you good listeners. Your more than generous letters and cards that have been pouring in have told us what you want, and that they are now bringing your music to you.

In the studio with me today are some of the great men of jazz. Men who can play those tunes that you love in the way that you love to hear them. All jazz you know, or every jazz band, is divided into two parts, melody and rhythm.

So let me introduce our all-star melody section. Muggsy Spaniard, that hot driving cornet player, a legendary master yet one very much alive. And New Orleans, the New Orleans trombonist George Brunies, who's equal is hard to find.

And also from New Orleans, famous Albert Nicklaus, who's smooth, who's smooth liquid clarinet has been heard throughout America and Europe. So let's have a few bars of melody, boys. And the rhythm section is to a jazz band just what the motor is to an airplane.

jazz band can even move without it. The spark plug of our stellar rhythm section is baby dogs of New Orleans, who many consider the greatest drummer jazz has known. The same city New Orleans birthplace of jazz fills our guitar chairs in the person of Danny Barca. Chicago gives us a famous pianist in Joe Sullivan, who was already thickening the average in the