Legends Mix

And once more a great mix of the best of the old-style jazz and blues and Rhythm & Blues starting in the roaring twenties with an acoustical recording and ending in the rocking fifties with a rocking blues that's barely two minutes long. Things changed along the way but the music was as wonderful as three decades before, when the first blues had been published as sheet music and recorded on labels such as Black Swan, Okeh and Paramount.

In this show I'll tell you a bit about the choice musicians had to make in the early forties - blues or bebop. It was the point where jazz and popular music started to part their ways - be it, that the interaction stayed strong for a long time.

Transcript

Playlist

Callie Vassar - Original Stomps
Ed Bell - Leaving Train Blues
Charley Patton - Moon Going Down
Cora Garner - Wouldn't Stop Doing It
Big Bill Broonzy - Mr. Conductor Man
Bo Carter - Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
Count Basie - Harvard Blues
Buddy Johnson - In There
Benny Goodman - Airmail Special
Erskine Butterfield - J.P. Dooley III
Big Joe McCoy & his Rhythm - Got To Go Blues
Erroll Garner - Twistin' The Cat's Tail
Tab Smith - Riffin' The Bass
Jack McVea - Two Timin' Baby Boogie
Fat Man Robinson - My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
Jimmy Liggins - Brown Skin Baby
Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Charlie Christian - Swing to Bop (Charlies Choice)
Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump
Duke Ellington - Chicago Stomp Down
Erskine Butterfield - Piano Cocktail
Jack McVea - Basses Boogie
Tab Smith - Red Hot And Blue