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2022-12-IHTSB-December-25 Buddy Clark, Jo Stafford, Bing Crosby…

Merry Christmas! Today we celebrate the holiday season with favourite songs from recordings made back in the 1940s and 1950s. We are joined by Bing Crosby, the performer perhaps most associated with this time of year, who brings us some lovely Christmas carols and the Irving Berlin classic, “White Christmas”. Buddy Clark takes us to […]

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2022-11-IHTSB-November-20 Celebrating the music of the great pianist, Teddy Wilson.

Today we’ll be celebrating the work of one of the finest pianists in jazz and popular music, Teddy Wilson. He was born in Austin, Texas, on November 24, 1912, and each year at this time we pay tribute to his contribution to jazz and popular music. Teddy has been described as the quintessential swing pianist.

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2022 10 IHTSB October 16 Teddy Wilson, Bobby Hackett, Roy Eldridge…

IHTSB Oct 16, 2022We listen today to jazz trumpeters in recordings from the 1930s to the 1950s. Today’s show is the third in our series showcasing jazz instrumentalists, following on from shows featuring pianists and jazz clarinetists in recordings from this time period. The trumpet and its cousin the cornet were prominent members of line

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2022 IHTSB October 09

IHTSB Oct 9, 2022 Following on from last week’s show featuring jazz pianists, on today’s program we showcase jazz clarinetists in recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s. Though the clarinet was to some extent eclipsed in small group sessions in later years by the saxophone, there were some immensely talented and versatile clarinet players

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2022 09 IHTSB September 25

Today’s show features recordings from a range of singers and musicians made in the 1930s to the 1960s. Among our singers today, we listen to Ella Fitzgerald, Mildred Bailey and Mel Tormé with some classic songs from the great songwriters. Count Basie and Artie Shaw join us with their big bands and we hear from

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2022 09 IHTSB September 18 Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Chris Connor…

IHTSB Sep 18, 2022 On this week’s show we celebrate the beginning of autumn, which will start on Thursday, September 22. 2022 this year. Our recordings include songs about the season, fall weather, the leaves and the month of September. We’ll listen to Sidney Bechet, with September Song from 1952 and Maxine Sullivan, with her

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2022 09 IHTSB September 04 Featured on this episode, Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes.

IHTSB September 4, 2022 Today we’ll be listening to recordings by one of the finest vocalists from our time period, Helen Forrest. She is remembered particularly for the warmth of her voice, for her interpretative skills and for her talent in matching lyrics to the music of the big bands during the Swing Era and

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2022 07 IHTSB July 03 Two versions of each song are featured on todays episode.

IHTSB July 03, 2022 This morning we’re going to celebrate the work of the great songwriters and the very talented singers and musicians from the first part of the twentieth century. We’ll be listening to some lovely recordings of some very nice songs, which is what we do every Sunday morning, and today we’ll hear

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2022 03 IHTSB March 20 Sarah Vaughan, Fletcher Henderson, Bobby Hackett…

Today we celebrate the first day of Spring, with songs recorded from the 1930s to the 1960s. We begin with the trumpet of Bobby Hackett and “Spring, Beautiful Spring”. Sarah Vaughan and William Tabbert bring us songs from two musicals,”South Pacific” and “State Fair”, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Tommy Dorsey and his

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2022 02 IHTSB February 13

February 13, 2022 Today on the show we’ll hear recordings from small jazz groups from the 1930s through to the 1950s. There are some very talented musicians in our line up along with some fabulous singers, and even a big band or two. As a special feature, we highlight the work of several wonderful jazz

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2022 02 IHTSB February 06 Welcome to week one of Black History Month. The great vocalist Ella Fitzgerald is featured in this episode.

This morning on IHTSB we pay tribute to one of the major figures in popular music and jazz, Ella Fitzgerald. Ella Fitzgerald had one of the loveliest voices in popular music and jazz. With the rich, warm quality of her voice, and her amazing diction and versatility, Ella was at home across a range of

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2022 01 IHTSB January 23 Albert Nicholas, Sidney Bechet, Eddie Condon…

Our show today celebrates small jazz group recordings for the independent jazz labels over a three year period, 1943-46. Chief among these labels was Commodore, from which most of our recordings are drawn. Another label, Keynote, also provided a home for the very talented jazz artists during this period, as did Blue Note. Common to

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