First Song - Everybody Loves My Baby

This is Jazz! Totally live talent presentation of authentic improvised New Orleans Jazz. The writer and the writer is Rudy Blanche, famous jazz critic and author of the recent book, Shining from it's 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 set to go with the 13th session of This Is Jazz.

Now today this program devoted to our American jazz in its authentic improvised form is beginning its fifth month. And the response of all of you who listened continues to show that Americans have been hungry for this well-loved music, in music that after all is America's own.

As our great players improvise, it is in forations that count. I can truthfully say that every letter that we get inspires us all. Now as I look around I see a number of guest stars from our past sessions here in the studio today.

There's Joe Sullivan over there sitting at Great Chicago Peanut. Say Joe, how about picking our warm up tune for us? What do you say? Rudy, I'd like to pick out a tune called Everybody Lows My Baby.

What do you say fellow? Shall we go? Right here, with me are some of the greatest of the living jazz men.

There's Bruni's on trombone, Wild Bill Davidson on the trumpet, handle the brass. Albert Nicholas takes ample care of that clarinet. Baby Dods drums, pop sposters bass, and Danny Barker's guitar make a real rhythm section that is rounded out by Joe Sullivan's solid piano.