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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 05/24/2013

SHOWID 578239

Set I

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King Porter Stomp

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Just a Closer Walk with Thee

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The Blue Room
Snake Rag
The Mooch

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Naked Dance
Old Man Blues

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Variety Stomp

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The New Orleans Bump

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T'Ain't So, T'Ain't So

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Blue Skies

Voiceover Outro

Set II

 

Set III

 

Comment

Prohibition and the Jazz Age

Prohibition was intended to stifle vice – but instead, it nourished clubs run by organized crime and created a hotbed for jazz – where “the parties were bigger…the pace was faster…and the morals were looser” (F Scott Fitzgerald). Ken Burns joins Wendell Pierce to bring us the sound of the speakeasies. Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and James P Johnson are on the menu as Doug Wamble and Vince Giordano join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.