First Song - Back Home In Indiana

Mutual Broadcasting System presents This is Jazz. This is Jazz's radio's only live presentation of authentic improvised New Orleans Jazz. The writer and narrator is Rudy Place, famous jazz critic and author of the recent book, Shining Tumbles, a definitive, colorful history of this American music.

Each week at this time he and his great jazzman bring you a solid half hour of superb improvised jazz and scenes from a history. So here is Rudy Place. Thanks Art Van Horn and here we are all set to go on the 33rd section of This is Jaz.

Yes, the All Stars Conference are waiting to bring you some more of that improvised jazz in that authentic New Orleans manner. As a way of playing that New Orleans manner styles, it converts almost any tuner song into a new type of tonal art which is known as Jaz.

For example, and for an opener, here's a popular song of the 1920s, the song's name, back home in Indiana. Comin' Indiana played for you by the All-Star Stompers.

That's a band, by the way, which you've been listening to now for eight months. And his personnel, as you know, has been chosen from the very greatest players we can find. I'm gonna call the role for you.

There's Wild Bill Davison in his cornet. Edmond Hall, clarinet. And Jimmy Archie, trombone. Danny Barker, guitar. Ralph Sutton, piano. Pops, faucet to get on that bass. and baby dogs drums and now this great band is going to work out for you on a real jazz real jazz classic from the chicago scene of about twenty years ago

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