New Jazz Archive Features Rare Audio of Louis Armstrong & Other Legends Playing in San Francisco
Using tapes preserved by radio station KCBS, jazz broadcaster Dave Radlauer has archived KCBS broadcasts of Hangover sessions from 1954-58. On-air host Bob Goerner interviewed musicians from the KCBS station using a dedicated phone line that delivered a signal from the club on Nob Hill. Goerner preserved the show tapes, which are now housed in the Stanford University Braun Music archive.
Radlauer makes the archive available as .mp3 files, including one particularly historic jam session starring Louis Armstrong. The story goes that in January, 1951 Armstrong was in San Francisco to visit his friend clarinetist Pee Wee Russell in the hospital and decided to throw Russell a fundraiser. He brought together a masterful group including pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines, credited with helping transition jazz piano from stride to swing. The place was packed and $1,500 went into the kitty for Russell’s medical bills. You can listen to Armstrong’s rehearsal and performance below.
Read the full article and listen to the recordings @ OpenCulture.com.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Using tapes preserved by radio station KCBS, jazz broadcaster Dave Radlauer has archived KCBS broadcasts of Hangover sessions from 1954-58. On-air host Bob Goerner interviewed musicians from the KCBS station using a dedicated phone line that delivered a signal from the club on Nob Hill. Goerner preserved the show tapes, which are now housed in the Stanford University Braun Music archive.
