First Song - Panama Rag

This is jazz Radio's 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 prophets 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 this superb improvised jazz and scenes from its history

So here is Rudy Blake and here we are all set and ready to go on the 20th session of this is is jazz. Way back there in New Orleans, when the early streetlands first syncopated the military march tunes into ragtime jazz. One of the most remarkable musical transformations in history took place. Unlike the present

day jazzing of the classic, this was a basic creation and one that resulted in a completely new kind of music, that is jazz, as we know it. So we opened a day with one of the earliest and the best love to the New Orleans street marches.

Panama Rag. First there are the instruments that play the melody called the front line, and these are still today those of the brass band, furnishing the clear, brassy tone quality that so distinguishes

jazz music. The rhythm section of the present-day jazz band is more flexible than that of the old-fashioned brass band. It features instruments of great percussive mobility like the string bass guitar and piano while it retains the drums.

The famous jazz band here today with me form a really great jazz band, and I want to introduce them in the natural groupings of the band. So here are Wild Bill Davison Cornette, Albert Nicklaus Clarenette and Jimmy Archie Trumbone, our front line. And here are Baby Dods Drums, Danny Barker Guitar, James P. Johnson Piano and Pops Foster Bass, our rhythm section. Now