First Song - That's A Plenty

This is jazz This is jazz pure authentic jazz improvised over the air by great jazz artists in person Rudy Blanche who writes and narrates each program is a famed jazz critic and author of the recent book shining prophets a Colorful history of this American music each week at this time He'll bring you through the improvisations of celebrated jazz artists a solid half hour of this music and scenes from its history

So here's another session of this is jazz and your narrator Rudy Blanche Yes, as to this jazz is the only program of its sort, one that gives great jazz men the opportunity to sit at their ease here in the studio, not to play from scorers, but to make their music as they feel it in the free, extempraneous way of jazz. Jazz has players as famous and

as great in their own right as the various masters of classical music. So we welcome today a band of jazz masters to play as their opening number and all-time favorite jazz tune that came from a New Orleans Street March. A tune called That's a Plenty, and today that means Plenty of Jazz. Yes, I would say that that's a Plenty if we weren't going to have a lot more

just as good. The players that you heard playing it were Muggsy Spandier Cornette, George Bruni's Trombone, Albert Nicklaus and Sidney Bechay Clarenets, James P. Johnson Piano, Baby Dodds Drums, Danny Barker Guitar, and Pop Sposter Bass. The City of New Orleans, which gave us jazz many long years ago has also given us many of our greatest players

including a number of those here in the studio today. Also many if not most of the classic jazz tunes are from the city of New Orleans. Not only marches like the one which we have just heard but street songs popular songs songs that never lose their appeal. Such a tune is the tune