First Song - The Sheik of Araby

The Gradio's only program of authentic jazz improvised by great jazz players in person. The writer and the writer is Rudy Blanche, jazz critic and author of the recent book, Shining Trumpets, a colorful history of this American music.

Each week he and his famed jazz men bring you a solid half hour of superb improvised jazz and scenes from its history. So here is this is jazz and here is Rudy Blanche. I say welcome to this is jazz.

Jazz is a music that we take seriously today as an original and fine art American in origin. But this program presenting it is played by some of the greatest living jazz musicians stresses a purely enjoyable side of jazz.

For jazz expresses it as no other music does the sheer joy of living. It stirs our memories pleasantly with old melodies and urges us to dance to its lively rhythms. For our warm-up tune we have chosen a melody of 1921, a time when the sheaks and the flappers held the american spotlight so here we go

with the chica there the chica there that we played to show that we're warmed up now in fact i'd say we're hot

let me call the role of our players first from nixon granny spilly here's our car not a smudgy spand and for medicana scathey is our common as george brunney's and our clarinetis is albert nicholas our base man is pop sports our guitar any barker and our drummer baby dot and our guest are pianist from Eddy Conner's Cafe,

back again by popular demand, Joe Sullivan. Look in your history books of jazz, for their names and you'll find them all, and here they are right in the studio now with me, ready to give you a sweet tune that you all know.