Dixieland Revival – A Sense of History (1939 - 1955)

In the 1940's, some twenty-five to thirty years into the history of recorded jazz, the sometimes violent reaction against the bebop revolution caused a hard look into the rear view and the jazz world focused on its own history. Many of the players who led the first jazz revolution were still alive, ready for prime time, and welcoming of another chance at center stage. The outside forces that led the small ensembles of bebop and R&B into prominence, also supported the resurgence of quintets and sextets playing New Orleans-style jazz.

Playlist

• Host Intro 0:00
• Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band. "Livery Stable Blues (Barnyard Blues)" from Muggsy Spanier: 1939 -1942 (Classics) 3:44
• Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band. "Someday Sweetheart" from Muggsy Spanier: 1939 -1942 (Classics) 6:42
• Host speaks 9:24
• Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band. "Big Butter And Egg Man" from Muggsy Spanier: 1939 -1942 (Classics) 9:58
• Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band. "Relaxin' At The Touro" from Muggsy Spanier: 1939 -1942 (Classics) 12:58
• Host speaks 16:07
• Sidney Bechet Trio. "Strange Fruit" from Sidney Bechet: 1940 -1941 (Classics) 18:26
• Sidney Bechet Trio. "You're The Limit" from Sidney Bechet: 1940 -1941 (Classics) 20:55
• Host speaks 24:06
• Sidney Bechet Hot Six. "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" from The Fabulous Sidney Bechet (Blue Note) 25:12
• Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen. "Black and Blue" from The Fabulous Sidney Bechet (Blue Note) 30:53
• Host speaks 34:26
• Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. "Ain't Misbehavin'" from Louis Armstrong -Complete RCA Victor Recordings (RCA) 39:16
• Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. "Rockin' Chair" from The Jazz Singers (Smithsonian) 43:10
• Host speaks 48:20
• George Lewis and his New Orleans Stompers. "When You Wore a Tulip" from New Orleans Stompers (Blue Note) 49:39
• George Lewis and his New Orleans Stompers. "High Society" from New Orleans Stompers (Blue Note) 52:43
• Host Outro 57:11