Description

Stories and sounds from jazz’s history overseas from the U.S. State Department using jazz as a weapon in the Cold War, the music’s extensive history in other countries, and learn how Israel is producing some of the best modern jazz musicians. We’ll talk with Israeli jazzer Anat Cohen about why Israel is becoming a hotbed for new jazz talent, take a look at the nearly hundred-year-old history of jazz in Japan, and explore Europe’s version of the 1920s Jazz Age.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Penny Von Eschen, Lewis Porter, E. Taylor Atkins, Anat Cohen

Music

• Duke Ellington “Ad Lib on Nippon” 
• Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa”
• Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Tiger Rag”
• Josephine Baker “Si J'etais Blanche”
• Artie Shaw “Nightmare” 
• Charlie Parker “Anthropology”
• Komeda “Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby, Part 1”
• Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train”
• Duke Ellington “Satin Doll”
• Josephine Baker “Revoir Paris”
• Danilo Perez “Panama Blues”
• Toshiko Akiyoshi “Blues for Toshiko”
• Sarah Vaughan “April in Paris”
• Dave Brubeck “Calcutta Blues” 
• Duke Ellington “Bluebird of Delhi”
• 3 Cohens “U-Valley”
• Anat Cohen “La Comparsa” 

Original Air Date: June 17, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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