First Song - Shine

This is Jazz. ready to go on the 21st session of this is jazz.

Our many steady listeners know that the program, this is jazz, not only brings authentic improvised jazz to you, but jazz is played by the greatest masters of the art. Now these men who you hear every Saturday are great artists, and together they form a really great jazz band.

Now what we want is a name for this band, a name that is going to be colorful and descriptive, and that will indicate the kind of music that we play. So please write in all of the suggestions that you can think of and to strengthen the growing interest in this great American art

We are going to award three prizes for the winners choice albums of this very kind of music The decision of the judges is final and all entries become the properly of the program and should be postmarked on or before July 15th So we will be waiting to hear from you now I know that you're waiting to hear some music so here we go with an all-time favorite tune shine

Fine, fine, played by the all-star jazz band that one of you listeners is going to name. Now here is its famous personnel, Albert Nicklaus clarinet, and Wild Bill Davison Cornet, and

Jimmy Archie Trombone, Danny Barker Guitar, a Pops Foster bass, Baby Dodd's drums, and his guest at the nominal young St. Louis pianist Ralph Sutton. Now these boys are all going to get together in one of the great mood pieces of jazz, black and blue.

This brought you Barrel-Hospeanna music, that really remarkable blues style whose complex rhythmic figures and fugitive minor chords expressed to the very fullest, the deep melancholy and