[78-L] Blues on the radio

[RUSSELL BARNES]

One of the earliest Jazz Record Specialists in the UK were Messrs. LEVY, of Aldgate, London E1.      Levy were early importers of jazz recordings from the USA and I have  Okehs with Levy's labels glued over the original.   
 
Levy arranged that Percy Mathison Brooks interview Duke Ellington during July 1933 and that was issued on a Levy's special commemorative label.
 
I have bound copies of the Melody Maker magazine dating from 1926 to 1946 and I'm fairly certain that in the 30's they were mentioning 'race recordings' in their advertising.
 
Radio programmes :  Not sure; but Sinclair TRAILL, founder/editor of the UK's 'Jazz Journal'
once told me he was briefly involved in some early BBC radio programmes of Jazz.
 
Russ Barnes
 


--- On Mon, 12/1/09, Birgit Lotz Verlag <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de> wrote:

From: Birgit Lotz Verlag <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de>
Subject: [78-L] Blues on the radio
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Monday, 12 January, 2009, 11:12 AM

Two questions:

(1) Is it possible to say when a (black) vocal blues record was played 
on the radio for the first time, and where?
(2) Who hosted the first radio show entirely devoted to (black) vocal 
blues, any country, any language?

ahh, and another question:
(3) How did European blues enthusiasts during the 20s and 30s most 
likely know about "race records" - direct exposure while traveling in

the States, or sailors calling on European ports, or through importers 
and distributors of US products, or ??


Rainer




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