IT’S TRAD, DAD!
This week’s feature artist on The Phantom Dancer, your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio by Greg Poppleton, is actually a feature style. The style is designated by a term a lot of its fans use without being too precise about its actual meaning. It’s Trad jazz, Dad.
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PHANTOM DANCER
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FRONTLINE
Trad Jazz is short for traditional jazz. It’s the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone.
REVIVAL
A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe “King” Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and W. C. Handy: bands included banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections. A New Orleans-based traditional revival began with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter during the 1960s.
Early King Oliver pieces exemplify this style of hot jazz; however, as individual performers began stepping to the front as soloists, a new form of music emerged. One of the ensemble players in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, was by far the most influential of the soloists, creating, in his wake, a demand for this “new” style of jazz, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Other influential stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier. Many artists of the big band era, including Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, had their beginnings in trad jazz.
On this week’s Phantom Dancer, you’ll hear Trad and Chicago style is Set 4 by the Bob Crosby Bobcats, Eddie Condon and Red Nichols direct from 1929 radio
The last hour is all vinyl.
Your Phantom Dancer Video of the Week this week is: Westend Blues featuring Bob Barnard on trumpet and Lawrie Thompson, drums. I mention these two particular musicians out of the band in this 1980s telecast because I have had the huge pleasure of them both playing in my own Greg Poppleton band.
Enjoy!
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Play List – The Phantom Dancer
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Set 1
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Big Bands on 1940s Radio | |
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Theme + The Moon Is Low
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Ray McKinley Orchestra
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‘One Night Stand’
Century Room Hotel Commodore AFRS Re-broadcast 1946 |
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Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
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Jack Barrow Orchestra (voc) Dolores Crane
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‘One Night Stand’
Aragon Ballroom Ocean Park Ca AFRS Re-broadcast Jul 1945 |
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I Can’t Get Started + Theme
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Jack Jenney (tb) Frank DeVol Orchestra
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’Music Depreciation Revue’
KHJ Mutual – Don Lees Los Angeles 4 Feb 1945 |
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Set 2
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Smooth On 1950s Radio | |
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Open + It’s A Good Day
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Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singer (voc) Mitchell Ayres Orchestra
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’Let’s Go To Town’
Radio Transcription Hollywood 1954 |
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Champagne Music (theme) + Red Petticoats
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Lawrence Welk Orchestra
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Aragon Ballroom
Ocean Park Ca KECA ABC LA 1958 |
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Medley: How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close
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Sammy Kaye Orchestra
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’One Night Stand’
Hotel Astor Roof NY AFRS Re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 |
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Set 3
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Dixie on 1920s-50s Radio | |
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Muskrat Ramble
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Bob Crosby Bobcats
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’Bob Crosby Show’
Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1955 |
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I Want To Be Happy
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Eddie Condon
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’Dr Jazz’
Eddie Condon’s WMGM NY 10 Dec 1951 |
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Jazz Me Blues
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Little Buster and the Corn Poppers (Red Nichols)
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’Dickenson Program’
Radio Transcription New York City Nov 1929 |
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Set 4
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1930 Radio Jazz | |
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Tin Ear
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Bob Effros and The Philco Orchestra
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’Philco Program’
WABC CBS NY 1930 |
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Singing River
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Boswell Sisters
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Continental Broadcasting Corporation
Radio Transcription Hollywood 1930 |
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I Don’t Need Atmosphere To Fall In Love With You + Close
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Little Jack Little
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’Little Jack Little Program’
Radio Transcription New York City 1930 |
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Set 5
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Doris Day on 1939-45 Radio | |
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I’m Happy About The Whole Thing
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Doris Day (voc) Barney Rapp and his New Englanders
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NBC Cincinatti
17 Jun 1939 |
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Blue Music
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Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra
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Peacock Room
Baker Hotel CBS Dallas 9 Aug 1945 |
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Long Ago and Far Away
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Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra
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Cafe Rouge
Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 7 Jul 1944 |
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I Wish I Knew
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Doris Day (voc) Les Brown Orchestra
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Palladium Ballroom
KNX CBS Hollywood 16 Aug 1945 |
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Set 6
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Fats Waller 23 Sep 1943 in Story and Song | |
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Reefer Song
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Fats Waller
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Comm Rec
New York City 23 Sep 1943 |
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Ain’t Misbehavin’ + There’s a Girl in my Life + Honeysuckle Rose
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Fats Waller
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’Personally, It’s Off The Record’
WABC CBS NY 23 Sep 1943 |
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Set 7
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1934 Radio Jazz and Dance | |
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Maniacs’ Ball
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Glen Gary and the Casa Loma Orchestra
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Radio Transcription
New York City 1934 |
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Intro + It Don’t Mean A Thing
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Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
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’Chrysler Program’
Radio Transcription New York City 1934 |
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Song of the Vipers
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Louis Armstrong
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Comm Rec
Paris Oct 1934 |
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Swingy Little Thingy
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Hal Kemp Orchestra
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’Lavena Program’
Radio Transcription New York City 1934 |
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Set 8
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Bop on 1940s-50s Radio | |
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A Night In Tunisia
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Charlie Parker
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost WMCA NY 12 Mar 1949 |
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Now’s The Time
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Howard McGee
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Birdland
WJZ ABC NY Oct 1951 |
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I’m Glad There’s You
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Charlie Ventura (voc) Jackie Kain and Roy Kral
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‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost WMCA NY 1949 |
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