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Music Music - Jazz Urban Life
  • Presenting music with jazz pianist and radio host of "Piano Jazz," Marian McPartland

    Jun. 8, 1992

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Marian McPartland

  • Presenting music with jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland and jazz pianist and radio host of "Piano Jazz," Marian McPartland

    Oct. 26, 1990

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Marian and Jimmy McPartland

  • Presenting music by jazz musicians Jimmy McPartland and Bud Freeman

    Aug. 31, 1982

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by Jimmy McPartland and Bud Freeman

  • James Dapogny discusses jazz and the many faces of the genre

    Aug. 14, 1984

    Bandleader, jazz musicologist and composer James Dapogny discusses his work in reviving the sound and art of jazz. Dapogny's work is mainly associated with his group James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band and his career in publishing lost works of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton.

  • Interviewing pianist and composer Bradley Parker-Sparrow and jazz singer Joanie Pallato

    Jun. 1, 1992
  • Oscar Brown Jr.

    Interviewing Oscar Brown Jr.

    1963
  • Interviewing jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland and jazz pianist and radio host of "Piano Jazz," Marian McPartland

    Aug. 25, 1986
  • Interviewing former City of Chicago Jazz Festival producer Penny Tyler and jazz trumpeter Art Hoyle

    Feb. 18, 1993
  • Interviewing author and jazz historian Dempsey Travis

    May. 23, 1989
  • Interview with Oscar Brown Jr. ; part 2

    Jun. 26, 1962
  • Oscar Brown Jr.

    Interview with Oscar Brown Jr. ; part 1

    Jun. 26, 1962
  • Discussing the jazz community with Rev. John Garcia Gensel

    Jan. 31, 1989

    Rev. Gensel was named Minister to the Jazz Community of New York in 1965 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

  • Discussing jazz and blues with Bob Koester

    Mar. 3, 1993

    Based in Chicago, Delmark Records is the United State's oldest independent jazz and blues label.

  • Robert Kimball

    Discussing Cole Porter's work and the book "Cole" and interviewing its author Robert Kimball

    1970

    Cole Porter biographer Robert Kimball talks with Studs about his book "Cole" and his subject's life and work as they listen to classic performances of some of his most beloved songs. They marvel at how Porter perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the times in his lyrics, his lyrical influences, his unique method of outside-in composing lyrics and music simultaneously, Bobby Short's masterful interpretations, controversies over some of his works, and how well his material holds up.

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