#276 - TJ English on DANGEROUS RHYTHMS (part 1)
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - August 23, 2022 10:15 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Journalist, screenwriter, and New York Times bestselling author TJ English chats with Trey Elling about DANGEROUS RHYTHMS: JAZZ AND THE UNDERWORLD. In the first of a two-part conversation with TJ, topics include:
Why the birth of jazz was about more than merely creating a new sort of language (3:10)
How lynchings helped form a bond Sicilian club owners and black jazz musicians in early-1900s New Orleans (6:29)
The origins of the term 'jazz' (10:22)
"Jellyroll" Morton (14:06)
The influence of the "Sicilian Black Hand" (16:56)
The scene surrounding the earliest Kansas City jazz clubs (20:02)
Not shying away from the ugliness that surrounded jazz in its early days (25:19)
Louis Armstrong's move from New Orleans to Chicago in 1922 (32:16)
Al Capone hearts Fats Waller (40:50)
The birth of the hipster (44:20)