The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1947–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 35
- Genre
- variety
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…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. First Song High Society · 18 Jan 1947
- 2. First Song Bugle Call Rag · 15 Feb 1947
- 3. First Song At the Jazz Band Ball · 8 Mar 1947
- 01
First Song High Society
18 Jan 1947 · 28 min
Broadcast 18 January 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
First Song Bugle Call Rag
15 Feb 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 15 February 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 03
First Song At the Jazz Band Ball
8 Mar 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 8 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 04
First Song Sensation Rag
24 Mar 1947 · 28 min
Broadcast 24 March 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 05
First Song Sweet Georgia Brown
5 Apr 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 5 April 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 06
First Song Maple Leaf Rag
19 Apr 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 19 April 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 07
First Song Everybody Loves My Baby
3 May 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 3 May 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
First Song The Original Dixieland One Step
17 May 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast 17 May 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1947–1947
Other series the network carried while This Is Jazz was on the air.
Same seasons
variety on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of This Is Jazz
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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