In the 1920s, when radio was in its infancy, stations took to broadcasting from department stores. In Boston, radio...
Perley Breed’s Department Store Dance Band
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Boston recordings
April 1965: Jaki Byard, Live at Lennie’s
On the night of April 15-16, 1965, Prestige Records recorded Jaki Byard, Joe Farrell, George Tucker, and Alan Dawson...
April 12, 1951: Bird’s Jam Session at Christy’s
On April 12, 1951, Charlie Parker and friends were caught on tape at a jam session at Christy's Restaurant in...
Music for Swinging Moderns
Long before Swing Shift established him as a bandleader, and long before his clarinet skills were displayed in the...
Mar 25, 1931: Tom Wilson of Transition Records Born
Record producer and studio wizard Tom Wilson was born Waco, Texas, on March 25, 1931. Tom Wilson, as much as anybody...
March, 1940: Basie at the Southland Cafe
Business was brisk and the talent considerable at Boston's Southland Cafe as 1940 got underway. First Duke Ellington,...
The Mood Records Story
George Bedoian owned a Cadillac dealership in Cambridge, but for a time in the mid-1950s, he also dabbled in the...
Remembering Dick Johnson
On January 10, 2010, Dick Johnson, the multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and favorite son of Brockton, Mass. died at...