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We pick up our series at the tail end of 1964, with the entire music business reeling from Beatlemania. Even the other British acts are feeling the ...read more
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Most historians lump all English artists who debuted in the U.S. during 1964 into the ‘first wave’ of the British Invasion. I, however, feel it would be ...read more
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The first few months of the British Invasion were thoroughly dominated by the Beatles. A good number of groups joined the fray by April, but the Beatles ...read more
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A few weeks back, we did a series of shows on what music was like in England before the British Invasion. Now, the time has come to cover the real McCoy – ...read more
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This show is a sad one. It took us three one-hour episodes to record the time period when Bix Biederbecke played on only seventy known tracks. ...read more
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Our third part in this series dedicated to the music of Bix Biederbecke and Frank Trumbauer captures our subjects at the absolute peak of their powers.
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BIX, TRAM & THE JAZZ AGE, PART 2
So far, when we’ve covered artists who debuted in the ‘20s, the first show usually contains much more conversation than ...read more
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From today’s perspective, it may seem politically incorrect, or even racist, to portray the history of early jazz in black and white terms, but the truth ...read more
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This is an odd series, because we are examining music that was – and mostly remain – totally obscure to most Americans, and yet it is quite possibly some ...read more
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How Music Changed is primarily the story of how American music changed and developed, but this chapter focuses on music that is generally obscure to most ...read more
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