Archives: Episode 95, Black History Month

Taking a couple weeks off and posting programs from the archives.

This week it's Jazz and Black History Month....originally posted February of 2020. Now, despite the efforts of certain racist politicians to eliminate our honouring black history, this episode is in honour of that history.

I play music by James Reese Europe and his Paragons Ragtime Orchestra, Jellyroll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson & Harry Sweets Edison, Charles Mingus, Joe Williams, Louise Rose (from Victoria, B.C.), Ramsey Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, and The Modern Jazz Quartet. And I talk about this music---focusing on its roots, including Buddy Bolden (who, unfortunately, never recorded).