Jazz in the Twin Cities, part 1

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May 16, 1978
Leigh Kamman - Interviewer, Narrator, Producer, and Reader, Vince Bastien - Interviewee, Unknown - Interviewee and Performer, Red Maddock - Interviewee, Harry Blons - Interviewee, Dick Pendleton - Interviewee, Tom Morgan - Interviewee, Nancy Fushan - Narrator, Producer, Reader, and Reporter, Paul Kelly - Technical Director, Jerry Mullaney - Interviewee, Pete Karalis - Interviewee, Ira Pettiford - Interviewee, Rook Ganz - Interviewee, Norvy Mulligan - Interviewee, Frank Roberts - Interviewee
Listen: Jazz in the Twin Cities, Part 1 (stereo)
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MPR's arts reporter Nancy Fushan and Jazz Image host Leigh Kamman prepared this sound portrait of the Twin Cities jazz scene as it existed from the late 1920s to the 1950s, collecting stories on the musicians who played it and the people who listened to it.

Topics include clubs in the Twin Cities (Boulevards of Paris, The Cotton Club, P & S Chicken Shack, Swing City, Marigold Ballrooom, and Mitch’s), the influence of radio, jam sessions, touring, and interviews with Rook Ganz, Norvy Mulligan, & Ira Pettiford, amongst others.

Program includes music elements.

[NOTE: this is STEREO version of program]

This is part one of two.

Click link below for part two, which looks at the post-1950s and contemporary jazz scene in the Twin Cities:

https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1978/05/17/jazz-in-the-twin-cities-part-2

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