bix beiderbecke Archives - The Brophisticate

Gennett Records with Bob Jacobsen [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on January 27, 2024
In the history of early recorded music, one label stands out as a kind of unlikely blessing. A recording studio in the unassuming town of...
Robinson’s Bottle Caps, Woodpeckers & Jazz [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on October 20, 2017
Musicologist Dave Robinson has us over and down in his basement of treasures to talk jazz recordings, history, bottlecaps, woodpeckers and piano rolls!
The Jazz Echo Wall Spirits in Phil’s Mind [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on April 18, 2017
The walls do speak- and sometimes wail- of which musicologist and tour guide Phil Pospychala can hear them. So on this episode of In the...
A Flying Tiger & Tickled Pink Jazz [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on February 1, 2017
In the lead up to the world being plunged into a second world war, the Japanese invaded China and subjected the country to a living...
Off Jackson Garrison’s Jazz Records [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on January 18, 2017
78 RPM quests, Bix Beiderbecke’s mystery trail, Joe Bussard’s basement Mecca, digitizing history and making-me-blush blues songs. It’s all brought here by this week’s guest...
Phil’s Hoosierland Jazz [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on July 24, 2016
The final in the series of interviews conducted at the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, music enthusiastic Phil Oldham talks about the state...
Charlie & the Jazz our kids will throw away when we’re gone [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on May 6, 2016
Even when Charlie Coleman was a kid, hot jazz was fading from the mainstream public’s musical preferences. But knowing great music when he heard it,...