Legends Mix

Again a mix of the best of African American music and to show off how wide that spectrum is - today's playlist does a jump in the revival of New Orleans traditional jazz but it also brings a fifties novelty song and one of the forties' most innovative and original hepcats around in the New York scene. Of this man you'll also get the bizarre story of his teenage years.

Today I'll also share something with you, that keeps on puzzling me. The music I play was born in, and aimed at the African American community. I wonder how come, that its conservation and promotion is an almost exclusively "white" thing, and why there's so little awareness of their own great musical heritage among African Americans.

Transcript

Playlist

Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - Blues for Jimmy
Royal Rhythm Boys - Beat It Out Bumpin' Boy
Count Basie - Feedin' The Bean
Bea Booze with Sammy Price - War Rationin' Papa
Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes - Shorty's Got To Go
Saunders King - Write Me A Letter Blues
Etta Jones - The Richest Guy In The Graveyard
Andrew Tibbs- Toothless Woman Blues
Joe Lutcher - No Name Boogie
Pete Brown - Pushin the Mop
Walter Brown - It's A Good Deal Mama
Dud & Paul Bascomb - Somebody's Knocking
Percy Mayfield - Advice
Paula Watson - I Love to Ride
Floyd 'Horsecollar' Williams - Horsecollar Blues

Outtro:

Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

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

Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
Earl Bostic - Bostic's Jump
Eddie Durham - Moten's Swing
Frank 'Floorshow' Culley - That Girl
Joe Liggins - Little Black Book
Lloyd Glenn - Chocolat Drop
Sonny Thompson- Sonny's Return