This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through a broad and carefully paced span of musical settings, beginning with small-group swing […]
Read moreFrom Early Swing to Shakey Jake’s Long Road
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise travels a broad musical road across its five hours, beginning with the buoyant, dance-minded language […]
Read moreFrom Swinging Rooms to Chicago Blues and Midnight Jazz
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through a wide field of blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, and vocal-group music, […]
Read moreCity Lights, Back Roads, and Midnight Water
This week’s five-hour Blues Before Sunrise moves with the freedom of a program that has no single theme hour, yet […]
Read moreFrom Swinging Horns to Sundown Blues
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise brings together five hours of old records with no single theme beyond the program’s enduring […]
Read moreA Century of Blues Voices, Jazz Turns, and Electric Shadows
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through an unusually broad musical landscape while keeping a clear sense of continuity: voices, […]
Read moreLefty Bates and the Long Reach of Chicago Rhythm
This week’s Blues Before Sunrise moves through five hours of blues, R&B, jazz, vocal groups, spiritual material, and early recordings […]
Read moreChicago Festival Blues and a Five-Hour Arc
This edition of Blues Before Sunrise moves through an unusually wide field of blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, vocal-group […]
Read moreFrom Cab Calloway to Georgia Tom Dorsey
This edition of Blues Before Sunrise moves through five hours of blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, jazz-leaning material, and late-night […]
Read moreWhen Summer Learned the Blues
This edition of *Blues Before Sunrise* is built like a long summer day: it begins in a hazy jazz glow, […]
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