First Song - High Society

This is your host Chuck Kuckey. It is an each of these shows or you're approval. I'm very much interested in receiving your comments on each of these programs. Either favorable or unfavorable. I'm really asking you all to turn yourselves into radio critics for the next half hour.

As we present a program called This Is Jazz, a program unique in presenting the true origins of pure jazz music. You think you know what jazz really is? Well, all too many Americans don't. So listen, what follows may be a revelation to you.

As we present, for your approval, this is jazz. This is jazz, a program conceived by Harry Fromkies and Rudy Bletch. Mr. Bletch, known from coast to coast for his newspaper articles and lectures on pure jazz, and especially for his recent book, Shining Trumpets, will tell you all about the music you're to hear and introduce the men who play it.

And here, preceded by his musical signature, way down yonder in New Orleans, is Rudy Blush. Do you know what jazz really is? And you and you, two few of us in 1947 do. It's not swing, it's not necessarily the latest tune of Tin Pan Alley or the current movie.

It's a pure music, a real cultural value, improvised by small groups, with generally only one instrument of a kind. This player is free to create his own variation on the musical theme, and these variations combine into a free rhythmic harmonious whole.

If there is more ensemble than there is solo in pure jazz. It's not prearranged or scored like swings, nor wild and chaotic like the jam session. It's orderly, but exciting. In the next half hour we can bring you only the important highlights of the long and rich history of pure American jazz. But this preview can lead, if you all approve, to a series of