Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 2nd December 2021Place: Cambridge 105 Radio James Errington once again takes you back to the early days of recorded music with original recordings, this time to 1923, which saw the debuts of Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and King Oliver and plenty of other pioneering jazz, blues and country records. You can …
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MP3 download | Patreon | Apple | Mixcloud | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS This compilation of Christmas recordings spans an era which includes the entirety of WW1 and the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919, but of course you wouldn’t guess it from the contents. The only reminder perhaps is the two …
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Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 5th December 2020Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Another trip back into the past with audio archivist James Errington, this time joined by folk musician Mark Bilyeu from Springfield, Missouri to delve into the music of 1922, the year of the first country music recordings, stride piano from Fats Waller and James P …
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Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 7th November 2020Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Audio curator James Errington is joined from New York by Michael Daddino to explore original recordings from 1921, including more classical female blues, novelty piano, melancholy Klezmer, the organised chaos of Dixieland jazz, and the most unintentionally sinister recording of the decade. You can listen …
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Man With a Movie Camera Un Chien Andalou Woman in The Moon The Broadway Melody Gold Diggers of Broadway The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl Pandora’s Box Unaccustomed As We Are The Hoose-Gow The Haunted House The Skeleton Dance Coquette (1929) Blackmail Madame X Applause The Cocoanauts The Love Parade Rio …
Another exclusive orchestral mix, available as a podcast for patreon backers. This one has classical / orchestral music recorded between 1927 and 1929, and features a section in stereo! 0:00:00 Dajos Béla and His Dance Orchestra – Jalousie (1927)0:02:44 Hotel Commodore Ensemble, directed by Bernhard Levitow – Clair de lune- suite Bergamasque (1927)0:06:49 Philadelphia Orchestra …
1920 – “a genuine watershed moment, and a genuinely brilliant record” 1921 – “the margins are expanding, cracks are forming, soon this wonderful infection is going to be irresistible in its spread.” 1922 – “a massive expansion of classical female blues, with a knock-on explosion of resurgent jazz” 1923 – “The people running those “race …
Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 10th September 2020Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Another trip into the early days of recorded music with audio curator James Errington, this time joined by Grammy-nominated blues, soul, and Americana singer and songwriter Janiva Magness to explore the sounds of 1920, the year Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds kicked off the …
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