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Description:
A lot of people probably don’t think of jazz as something that’s all that funny, but there’s more than one way to get a laugh out of all things jazz that’s guaranteed to make you smile. We’ll talk with stand-up comic Jeff Cesario about how his former life as a jazz musician helps make him a better comedian, bring in our jazz historian Lewis Porter to talk about jazz’s vaudeville roots and how jazz lost its sense of humor in the 1950s, and take a look at jazz prankster Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz stories that’ll leave you smiling.
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Jeff Cesario, Lewis Porter
Music
Bob Crosby “Big Noise from Winnetka”
Cab Calloway “Twee-Twee-Tweet”
Slim Gaillard “Potato Chips”
George M. Cohan “You Won't Do Any Business if You Haven't Got a Band”
Josephine Baker “C’est lui”
Ma Rainey “Oh Papa Blues”
Bessie Smith “Sobbin’ Hearted Blues”
Louis Armstrong “Cake Walking Babies from Home”
Clarence Williams “Squeeze Me”
Lester Young “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
Dizzy Gillespie “Dizzy Atmosphere”
Dizzy Gillespie “Salt Peanuts”
Dizzy Gillespie “Oop Bop Sh' Bam”
Dizzy Gillespie “Umbrella Man”
Carla Bley “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”
Louis Armstrong “Heebee Jeebies”
Charles Mingus “Spur of the Moment”
Fats Waller “Your Feet’s Too Big”
Thelonious Monk “Bemsha Swing”
Count Basie “Splanky”
Cab Calloway “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House”
Louis Armstrong “Cheesecake”
Original Air Date: August 6, 2012
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Interlochen Public Radio
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.
Description:
We start our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the sites and sounds of Chicago by tracing the arrival of jazz and how it established the city's reign as America’s jazz capital during the 1920s, leading it to grow into one of the country’s richest avant garde jazz scenes. We’ll talk with the owner of the storied Green Mill Cocktail Lounge about his epic restoration of the club to its former speakeasy glory, hear how the Green Mill helped found the improv-rich tradition that is the poetry slam, and tour the bizarre outer-space-themed world of Sun Ra.
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Dave Jemilo, Neil Tesser, John Szwed
Music
Louis Armstrong “Alligator Crawl”
Deep Blue Organ Trio “Goin’ To Town”
Ramsey Lewis “The In Crowd”
King Oliver “Jazzin’ Babies’ Blues”
King Oliver ”The Trumpet's Prayer”
Louis Armstrong “West End Blues”
Louis Armstron “Wild Man Blues”
Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”
Sun Ra “Space Is The Place”
Ahmad Jamal “Poinciana (The Song of the Tree)”
Ahmad Jamal ”Wave”
Benny Goodman “Moonglow”
Bix Beiderbecke “In A Mist (Bixology)”
Ahmad Jamal “Ahmad's Blues”
Frank Sinatra “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)”
Von Freeman “Doin' it Right Now”
Sun Ra “Disco 2021”
Sun Ra “Love in Outer Space”
Sun Ra “Night of the Purple Moon”
Sun Ra “On Jupiter”
Art Ensemble of Chicago “Dreaming of the Masters”
Von Freeman “Sweet and Lovely”
Kurt Elling and Jon Hendricks “Goin’ to Chicago”
Count Basie “Going To Chicago Blues”
Original Air Date: January 28, 2012
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Interlochen Public Radio
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.
Description:
The life and music of the great Nina Simone from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of the fiercest voices for civil rights. We’ll talk with New York Magazine’s Joe Hagan about his look inside Nina Simone’s private diaries, chat with Simone biographer Nadine Cohodas about Nina’s life and music and her role as one of the fiercest voices for civil rights, and listen to some of Nina’s best from her more than 30 year reign as the High Priestess of Soul.
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Joe Hagan, Nadine Cohodas
Music:
Nina Simone “Ne me quitte pas”
Nina Simone “Feeling Good”
Nina Simone “My Baby Just Cares For Me (Train to Nowhere)”
Nina Simone “The Blood”
Nina Simone “Wild is the Wind”
Nina Simone “Strange Fruit”
Nina Simone “Mississippi Goddam”
Nina Simone “Four Women”
Nina Simone “Old Jim Crow”
Nina Simone “Young Gifted & Black”
Nina Simone “I Put A Spell On You”
Nina Simone “Gin House Blues”
Nina Simone “Born Under a Bad Sign”
Nina Simone “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
Nina Simone “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”
Nina Simone “Sinnerman”
Original Air Date: November 21, 2011
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Interlochen Public Radio
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.
Episodes
EPISODE 5 OUT April 1, 2025!
New Episode every other Tuesday!
Description:
A celebration of the life and extraordinary work of American folklorist Alan Lomax and how his calling to record the world changed the course of 20th century music with his legacy of over 10,000 recordings. We’ll talk with Lomax historian and archivist Don Fleming about Lomax’s groundbreaking work in the American South during the 1930s, trace Lomax’s path abroad and his efforts to record and capture the traditional music of countries across the world, talk with Todd Harvey of the Library of Congress about his efforts to preserve Lomax’s legacy, and find out how Alan’s long-held dream of providing unlimited access to his work is now becoming reality in the Internet Age.
Content warnings: explicit lyrics on the translation of Jelly Roll Morton’s “C’était N’aut’ Can-Can, Payez Donc (If You Don't Shake, You Don't Get No Cake)”
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Don Fleming, John Szwed, Todd Harvey
Music
Mississippi Fred McDowell “What's the Matter Now?”
Bookmiller Shannon “The Eighth of January”
Mississippi Fred McDowell “When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Little Lines”
Son House “Delta Blues”
Alan Lomax “Early in the Mornin'”
Lead Belly “Matchbox Blues”
Muddy Waters “Take A Walk With Me”
Ervin Webb “I'm Goin' Home”
Woody Guthrie “Do Re Mi”
Alan Lomax “Lenga Serpentina (Serpent Tongue)”
Sidney Carter “Worried Now, Won't be Worried Long”
Boy Blue “Dimples”
Jelly Roll Morton “Ain’t Misbehavin’”
Jelly Roll Morton “C’était N’aut’ Can-Can, Payez Donc (If You Don't Shake, You Don't Get No Cake)”
Lead Belly “Goodnight, Irene”
Muddy Waters “I Be’s Troubled”
Georgia Turner “The Rising Sun Blues”
The Animals “House of the Rising Sun”
E.C. Ball “Tribulations”
Muddy Waters “Louisiana Blues”
Rosalie Hill “Rolled and Tumbled”
Original Air Date: April 13, 2012
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Interlochen Public Radio
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.
Description:
You can’t listen to a painting or see a song, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap. We’ll explore jazz’s connection to the arts with a look at the criss-crossing paths of jazz and the visual arts with Dr. Robert O’Meally, discussing how the worlds of art and music collided during the Harlem Renaissance, explore the life and art of the jazz painter Romare Bearden, and take a look at the life and work of iconic jazz photographer William Gottlieb.
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Robert O’Meally and Ben Cawthra
Music:
Von Freeman “Sweet and Lovely”
Ella Fitzgerald / Billy Strayhorn “Chelsea Bridge”
Duke Ellington “Transblucency”
Thelonious Monk “Blue Monk”
Dizzy Gillespie “Blue ‘N’ Boogie”
Dizzy Gillespie “52nd Street Theme”
Ella Fitzgerald “Lover Man”
Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
Thelonious Monk “Misterioso”
Nat King Cole “Mona Lisa”
Dizzy Gillespie “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
Dizzy Gillespie “After Hours”
Thelonious Monk “Bemsha Swing”
Mary Lou Williams “A Grand Nite for Swinging”
Dizzy Gillespie “Sea Breeze”
Original Air Date: February 10, 2012
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Interlochen Public Radio
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.
About The New Jazz Archive
The New Jazz Archive (TNJA) is more than just a podcast—it’s an invitation to step into the heart of jazz, a uniquely American art form. Hosted by jazz composer and musician Jeff Haas, each episode takes you on a journey through the stories, sounds, and people that have shaped jazz, from its earliest moments to its lasting influence today. With vivid anecdotes and interviews, TNJA uncovers the untold stories behind the music, bringing to life the voices and experiences that helped define the genre. Whether you’re a longtime listener or just discovering jazz, TNJA offers a front-row seat to the rich cultural tapestry that jazz weaves into American life, celebrating the innovation, freedom, and expression that continue to define this extraordinary art form.
