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JAZZ AGE RADIO BROADCASTS!

SUNDAY

11 AM EST, 10 AM CST, 8 AM PST

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That Gramophone Show showcases real music nostalgia when Neil Starr takes you on a trip down memory lane with music sourced exclusively off 78 RPM shellac records. Music covers anything from 1910 to the late 1950s. Radio Today (@Radio2Day) broadcasts on 1485 AM in Johannesburg and country-wide on DStv audio channel 869.

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FORWARD INTO THE PAST

kspc.org

2 - 5 PM (Pacific Time) 5 -8 (EST)

Program Host: Randy Brian

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Join your host, Randy Brian, as he takes you on a time-traveling tour of the 1920s, '30s and '40s with hot jazz, dance bands, comedy and personality discs, big band swing, early blues, and other vintage records that keep alive the Spirit of 78. And there's a middle hour devoted to old-time radio drama and comedy, too.

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LAND OF SKY

WPVM

7 - 9 PM Eastern Time

Program Host: Brody Hunt

Description:

Broadcasting original 78 RPM records straight off the shellac and out into the ether. A cross section of 20's & 30's vernacular music from USA and abroad.

Broadcasting out of downtown Asheville, NC high above historic Wall St. Stream live at wpvmfm.org and listen to archived shows at: Podcast

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RAPIDLY ROTATING RECORDS

KISL-FM 88.7

6 - 7 PM

Program Host: Glenn Robison

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Glenn Robison's weekly, hour-long radio program of 1920s and 30s pop and jazz. Glenn plays 78 RPM records of "toe-tapping" music from hot dance bands, as well as sweet bands, novelty tunes, soundtracks, blues, jazz and more.

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BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE

WDCB 90.9

Midnight to 5 AM (EDT)

Program Host: Steve Cushing

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Blues Before Sunrise showcases blues as part of a cultural landscape that includes jump and jive, rhythm and blues, swing, doo wop, gospel, comedy, and recitation, and never is the music presented as kitsch or retro fashion in the way that some music has been exploited and trivialized. For host Steve Cushing, the blues is a living African-American tradition with deep roots.

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MONDAY

GRAMOPHONEY BALONEY

KPOO

3 - 6 PM (PDT)

Program Host: DJ: McSchmormac

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A multi-cultural selection of recordings from 1950 or earlier, sometimes with live guests.

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IN THE GROOVE!

WPVM 103.7 - www.wpvmfm.org

8 - 10 PM Eastern Time

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Program Host: Russ Wilson

Russ Wilson hosts a show featuring 20's, 30's jazz and dance band music.

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TUESDAY

The Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC

WFMU

8 - 9 PM (EDT)

Program Host: Michael Cumella

Description:

Antique Phonograph Music Program is a WFMU radio show hosted by MAC. Every Tuesday evening, 7pm to 8pm, 78s and cylinders are played on actual period reproducing devices.

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WEDNESDAY

The Jimmie Jazz Archive

WOOL 91.5 FM

3 - 4 PM

Program Host: Jim Baldwin

Description:

Jim Baldwin, known as DJ "jimmiejazz", hosts the "jimmiejazz" show on www.wool.fm in Bellows Falls, Vermont that focuses on 1920s hot dance and personalities of the period.

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The Ian Whitcomb Show

http://luxuriamusic.com/

7 – 9 PM (EST)

Program Host: Ian Whitcomb

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THE IAN WHITCOMB SHOW is a rip-roaring rollercoaster of music from the golden age of Tin Pan Alley and British Music Hall through classic country & western and early R&B up until the British Invasion of the 1960s.

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THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Behavior Night

WBCQ

5 - 6 PM (EST)

Host: SirJack Scratchy

Great records and music from the first part of the 20th Century. Plus some fun and foolishments.

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Club McKenzie - Friday Fish Fry

KCBX

FRIDAYS, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Host: Guy Rathbun

Step into the Club every Friday evening for a sampling of music from "The Jazz Age" with Guy Rathbun. Across the spectrum of pop and jazz from the late teens to the early 1930s, this weekly series invites you the share in the talents and tales of the musicians and performers that created an unforgettable era.

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RADIOLA!

LIVE 365

8 - 10 PM (EST)

Host: Andy Senior

RADIOLA! is foremost a program of the best pop and jazz from the 1920s and 1930s, music which is unavailable anywhere else on local airwaves. These recordings shimmer with wit and levity, brim with deep joy, and beat with the pulse of life.

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SATURDAY

Adventures in Sound

KOOP 91.7 FM in Austin (online at koop.org)

Program Host: Dennis Campa

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Adventures in Sound is a free-form show that explores music spanning more than 120 years of recorded sound.

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HOT JAZZ SATURDAY NIGHT

WAMU 88.5

8 - 11 PM

Program Host: Rob Bamberger

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Every Saturday afternoon, Rob Bamberger stacks his recordings on a luggage cart and makes his way across the river to WAMU and what he calls his perch in studio four. From 8 until 11 p.m., the air is filled with vintage jazz, swing, and big band recordings from the '20s, '30s, and '40s.

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jazz [jaz]
–noun
1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
2. a style of dance music, popular esp. in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz.
3. dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.
4. Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.

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