First Song - Maple Leaf Rag

This is jazz. This is jazz is radios only live talent presentation of authentic improvised New Orleans jazz The writer and narrator is Rudy Blake famous jazz critic and author of the recent book shining trumpets a colorful history of this American music each week at this time he and his great jazz men bring you a solid half hour of superb improvised jazz and

Seems from its history. So here is Rudy Blake Here we are with a welcome mat all rolled out for the 11th session of This is Jazz. The jazz that came out of New Orleans, the kind that we play here is a music that is ever new, ever modern, because it's improvisation, reflecting the temperaments and the personalities

of its great players make each performance a new composition and a new experience. For our beginning number today the band is going to play a ragtime tune as old and as new, as classic jazz itself.

was written by Scott Joplin, first with subject in 1897. But still, as you hear it, it will be as new as today, because the player is improvising with inspiration, will bring various parts into the old themes.

So please listen now to Maple Leaf Rags. I'd like to introduce the players that you just heard

in the old timer, the old time rag time to Maple Leaf Rags. These are players chosen from among the very greatest of living jazz men. There's George Bruni's on trombone, Albert Nicklaus on clarinet Danny Barker on the guitar.

Pops Foster on string bass and Baby Dods on drums. Now we have four guest stars today. James P. Johnson pianist and Sidney Beiche clarinetist and Saffrana Sykson master have guest starred here before. But new to the program are Wild Bill Davison Trumpet and Young Bob Wilbur and of Young Bob, I will tell you more a little later.