At the Jazz Band Ball

Jazz broadcasts, airchecks, and transcriptions from 1920s-40s

Jazz Remotes, Transcriptions, and Airchecks, 1920s-40s.

They met in Harlem in the 1930s and briefly overlapped in the Count Basie Orchestra. She called him “The President” — “Prez” — because she considered him the finest saxophonist of them all. He called her “Lady Day.”

Pittsburgh jazz in the early and mid part of the 20th century. Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, Lena Horne, Billy Eckstine, Roy Eldridge, Maxine Sullivan, Erroll Garner, and others.

At the Jazz Band Ball - Kevin McLaughlin Jazz spring songs 1920s-40s, and commentary.