Just kidding Charles....
I've had the pleasure of splitting some sets up in Vancouver with Charles over the past couple of months and he has some great material
You're too kind....
As far as Oscar Peterson is concerned- He is a great Canadian musician, he sort of makes up for Brian, Celine, Anne and Alanis... oops! did I say that out loud?
The beaurocrats in Ottawa decree that all Canadian radio stations MUST play a certain percentage of "Canadian Content"- meaning, music written, or preformed by a Canadian artist. Unfortunately for me, the Canadian recording industry did not survive the depression- most indigenous labels died around 1932 or so- but fortunately some Canadian songwriters and preformers did. One of the most popular pop/dance band of the 20's/30's (Guy Lombardo) did. Some early Lombardo isn't bad, but then again- my self-imposed mandate is for
popular music of the era(s) as well, and Guy was HUGE. This week I will chip in some Charles Dornberger (Montreal), who recorded a little, his band cooked!
My cut-off date is 1947. It seems a tad arbitrary, but it's just that the jazz is by then moving into bop, and R & B records are appearing, and things evolve pretty quickly from there. I
may venture a little into early bop, but I have to be careful not to try to spread myself too thin. Part of it is, early bop and other artists that rise to prominence in the late '40s already get much airplay- I am trying to turn the spotlight on to the forgotten masters- think of it as Ethel Waters, Bennie Moten and Bix Beiderbecke rather than Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Chet Baker.
I am ULTRA excited about my last shipment of CD's which includes some WICKED Cuban music from the '30s! Viva Ernesto Lecuarno!
I will also have interviews with surviving artists of the era- I know of one who has agreed to do a show, though Artie Shaw is proving more of a challenge. I also have a line on three of the surviving members of a famous all-female swing band of some repute
"‘Swing’ is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a ’swing band’ in music.”-
Artie Shaw