Saturday, September 24, 2022

Jazz Performance Saturday! "Down By the Riverside" - Smoking Time Jazz Club

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Smoking Time Jazz Club is a Traditional Jazz band based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. Their performance of   Down By the Riverside was re...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Saturday Jazz Performance! - "The Original Dixieland One Step" - New Orleans Stompers

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Jazz is alive and well in Japan! My father, George A. Borgman, always said that jazz was for the world and he was right! Today's Jazz P...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Saturday Jazz Performance - "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" - New Orleans Jazz Band of Cologne

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On today's Saturday Jazz Performance we will hear Germany's New Orleans Jazz Band of Cologne playing the traditional gospel tune, J...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Jazz Performance Saturday! "Sunday" - The Foundation Jazz Band

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The Foundation Jazz Band or The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation's Jazz Band video profiled today is from way back on August 2,...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

George A. Borgman Archives - Reel to Reel Collection - JAZZ I TAKEOUTS

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In October of 1978 George Borgman was working for the Department of Justice in Washington, DC while living down in Maryland he would tune in...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Saturday Jazz Performance - "Quarantine Boogie" - Ladyva

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Okay, so it's technically Boogie Woogie, but, this I think, it is appropriate for our times. Pianist Ladyva plays her own composition ...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Easter Music - Gregorian Chant

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George A. Borgman, for whom this blog Yankee Jazz Beat was created to keep his research and love of music alive, said often that his favorit...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Saturday Jazz Performance - "Blue And Broken Hearted" - The Eddie Condon All Stars

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Today we will travel back to 1962 to hear the tune Blue And Broken Hearted by some people who were there when jazz was starting to hit its...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Saturday Jazz Performance - "C'est Magnifique" - The Jonny Hepbir Quintet

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Here is a performance of C'est Magnifique by the Jonny Hepbir Quintet from 2015. The video's been watched over a million times on...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

FROM THE ARCHIVES - Letter to the Editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

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The Yankee Jazz Beat blog is more than just another blog on jazz, it is a blog to remember the life, research and writings of George A. Borg...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Saturday Jazz Performance! "Wild Cat Blues" - Chris Barber Jazz Band!

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Wild Cat Blues was written by Thomas "Fats" Waller when he was in his early twenties. Clarence Williams who published the music ...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Jazz Performance Saturday! "On the Sunny Side of the Street" - Downtown Dixieland Jazz Band of Canada

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For this jazz performance we travel by way of video to Toronto, Canada 2013! The Downtown Dixieland Jazz Band plays their rendition of  On ...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Jazz Performance Saturday! - The Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Tailgate Ramble"

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The Preservation Hall Jazz Band was formed by tuba player Allan Jaffe around 1961 in New Orleans. The band is still in operation. In this ...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Jazz Performance Saturday - "Everybody Loves My Baby" - Calacas Jazz Band

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The Calacas Jazz Band of Mexico performs Everybody Loves My Baby in this music video style film from 2013. Everybody Loves My Baby w...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Frankie Teschemacher Born Today!

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Frank Teschemacher a.k.a. "Tesch" and "Frankie" Teschemacher was born this day March 13th in 1906 in Kansas City, Misso...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

Henry Ragas

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Henry W. Ragas was one of the innovators of jazz. He was one of the original members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band playing piano with...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Fred Hamm - Leader, cornet player and singer

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Frederick F. Hamm was born on September 7, 1889 in Newpoint, Missouri. By the time he was twelve he was residing with his widowed mother. ...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Drummer Harry Jimick

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I could not find too much information on drummer Harry Jimick. But what I could find seems to indicate that he was a Jewish drummer who pla...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

Saying, "So long," to Jerry Lewis.

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Jerry Lewis died at the age of 91 today. He first became famous with Dean Martin when they teamed up in the mid-1940s. He went solo when ...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Jazz Performance Saturday! - "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" - Geo Dixieland Jazz Band

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The tune Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue is not only a catchy tune, it is also a very popular tune with modern Traditional jazz bands! In toda...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Eddie Edwards

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Eddie Edwards was born Edwin Branford Edwards in New Orleans on May 22, 1891. At about the age of ten he began learning the violin. Five ...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Saturday Jazz Performance - "That's A'Plenty" - The Dixie Demons Jazz Band

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There isn't much worse than a demon, but, there isn't too much better than the Dixie Demons playing Trad Jazz! Today let's li...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Saturday Jazz Performance - The Fat Babies in Concert

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This Saturday Jazz Performance will be a concert that the Fat Babies   gave on November 8, 2013 as part of the 24th annual Chicago Humaniti...