Radio Drama · Old Time Radio Researchers · Variety & music
This Is Jazz
- Networks
- Mutual (as its archives name them)
- Heard
- 1947
- Episodes
- 35
THIS IS JAZZ
More about it
Premiering on January 18, 1947, host Rudi Blesh’s This Is Jazz aired until October 4 of the same year. Blesh was a jazz historian, commentator, and promoter with a special interest in earlier jazz tunes and performers. His first book, Shining Trumpets, was published in 1946, a year before his radio series. This Is Jazz originated from New York’s WOR and was broadcast over the Mutual network as an unsponsored program. The series’ 35 episodes were later released by the Jazzology record label. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here. This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.
Episodes, in broadcast order
Where it comes from 1
The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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OTRR This Is Jazz Singles
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.
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