First Song - Sensation Rag

The 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 Blanche, famous jazz critic and author of the recent book, Shining Profits, a definitive 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. Thanks Don Fred, you can hear we are all set to go on the 35th section of this is jazz.

And here the stop is our all set to open with an old ragtime tune that jazz bands have been playing for the last 30 years. It's a brilliant and very difficult number. Since we've played it several months ago, we've had a number of requests for a repeat.

So here is sensation. Starstopper, who have been bringing you real improvised American jazz for the last eight months.

I'm going to call the role. name is in the history books and here they are, Wild Bill Davison Cornette, and Jimmy Archie Trombone, Edmund Hall, Clareonet, there's Pops Foster bass, Baby Dodd's drums, and Danny Barker guitar, so soft and pretty, and Ralph Sutton piano.

And here's our guest of honor who will appear later with his famous the prana saxophone, Sidney Bechay. And now the stompers are going to bring you one of the favorites of all of the slow tunes that we have been playing on this is jazz. Jada.

This famous composition transcends even jazz and the blues. And just like Mark Twain, Ice Cream Soda, and Baseball expresses a very spirit of America. The St. Louis Blues.