First Song - Fidgety Feet

This is jazz radio's only live talent presentation the authentic improvised he Warley jazz writer and narrator is Rudy Blanche 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 scenes from its history

So here is Rudy Blanche and here we are all ready to go on the 19th session of this is jazz American Jazz is a folk music developed in part out of other kinds of folk music.

There were the spirituals and the work songs and the ballads and the blues. The brass band instrumentation of its beginnings, however, had laid the foundations of its later development into a complex and really unique fine art.

All of these influences can still be traced in what is called the classic jazz style. Now the number to be played is, in its musical form, a brass band march, but in its playing it will show the lighter and the more graceful rhythms of the classic jazz band so here is the jade feet

to deal with me in person today every Saturday i find it a pleasure and honor to work with them and to help them to bring your music to you i'm going to call the role there's albert nichliss over there wild bill davidson danny barker pops foster baby dot James P. Johnson.

That sounds like a discord. And our new trombonus, Jimmy Archie, who is veteran of the King Oliver and the Louis Armstrong bands. Down in New Orleans 30 years or so ago, when the brass band had gone on into the classic dance jazz band, there were many popular songs in the air.