Episode 2
Soweto Kinch continues his journey into the music and politics of Harlem, exploring the Harlem Renaissance, the Savoy Ballroom and the home of the new thing - bebop jazz.
In his second journey into Harlem's history, Soweto Kinch finds out about the rich gospel tradition, explores the art, music and poetry of the harlem Renaissance, and traces the story of jazz from swing to bebop. He visits the place where politician Marcus Garvey addressed the crowds from a soapbox, and finds out where African American thinker and reformer W. E. B DuBois lived and worked. He hears about the legendary Savoy Ballroom, and the late night clubs like Minton's and the Uptown House where Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie created a new style of jazz. Finally as the 1940s progress, rhythm and blues arrives on the scene and the everyday sound of Harlem is transformed.
First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 in 2009.
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Kurtis Blow
One Two Five (Main Street Harlem USA)
- Best of Kurtis Blow.
- Mercury.
- 524562-NA.
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Gregory Hopkins & Male Choir Of Convent Avenue Baptist Church
Highway To Heaven
- Great Men Of Gospel.
- AJB.
- 1004-2.
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Paul Robeson
Scandalize My Name
- Legendary Moscow Concert.
- Hiltongrove.
- RV-70004.
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Gregory Hopkins & Male Choir Of Convent Avenue Baptist Church
Who Built The Ark
- Great Men Of Gospel - Live In Buenos Aires.
- AJB.
- 10004-2.
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Ice T
If We Must Die (Poem)
- Rhapsodies In Black.
- Rhino.
- 8122-79874 2.
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Branford Marsalis
The Weary Blues (Poem)
- Rhapsodies In Black.
- Rhino.
- 8122-79874 2.
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Willie βThe Lionβ Smith
Achin Hearted Blues
- Harlem Joys.
- Charly.
- AFS-111032.
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Le Var Burton
The Damnation Of Women (Essay)
- Rhapsodies In Black.
- Rhino.
- 8122-79874 2.
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Chick Webb and His Orchestra
STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY
- Rhythm Man 1931-1934.
- HEP.
- HEPCD-1023.
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Chick Webb
DARKTOWN STRUTTERS BALL
- Rhythm Man.
- Hep.
- 1023-NA.
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WEBB, CHICK & HIS ORCH/ELLA FITZGERALD, VOC
A TISKET A TASKET
- THE LEGENDARY BIG BANDS- CHICK WEBB.
- PULSE.
- PLSCD-412.
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Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald
I Was Doing All Right
- Romance And Rhythm.
- Proper.
- Properbox-74.
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COOPER, AL & SAVOY SULTANS
Second Balcony Jump
- Swing's The Thing.
- N/A.
- 321436-..
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
The Growl
- The Story Of Big Bands.
- Chant Du Monde.
- 574-1481.90.
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Roy Eldridge
Sittin' In
- Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz/Trumpet Giant.
- Proper.
- Properbox-69.
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Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra
Blowin' the Blues Away
- Settin' the Pace.
- Proper.
- 10-16.
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Sir Charles Thompson
Takin' Off
- Takin' Off.
- Delmark.
- DD-450.
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Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Shaw Nuff
- The Dizzy Gillespie Story.
- Proper.
- Properbox-30.
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Charlie Parker plus band
Just Friends
- The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol.4.
- Verve.
- 837-141 2.
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Big Joe Turner
Sweeet Sixteen
- 1949-52.
- JSP.
- 7709-E.
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Gene Ammons
The Last Mile
- 1949-50.
- Classics.
- 1329-NA.
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George Benson
Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba
- Erotic Moods.
- Paul Winley Records.
- LP-131.
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George Benson
Sideman
- It's Uptown.
- Columbia.
- COL-502469.
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George Benson
Hello Birdie
- It's Uptown.
- Columbia.
- COL-502469.
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Ray Charles
What'd I Say
- Apollo Saturday Night.
- Atco.
- 8D-33-159.
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Suzanne Vega
Marlene On The Wall
- A&M.
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Pop Will Eat Itself
There Is No Love Between Us Anymore
- BOX FRENZY.
- Chapter Twenty-Two.
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ΉσΎ±²υ³¦³σ±π°ωβZ
The Worker
- Highlights 1979-2004.
- EMI.
- 2.
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Cat Power
The Greatest
- Matador.
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Ride
Cali
- Wichita Recordings.
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Yazoo
Don't Go
- Only Yazoo: The Best Of.
- Mute Records.
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