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Classic jazz and swing. Swingin' at the Cotton Club [sound recording] : August 14, 2005
Sacramento : Air Check ; Capital Public Radio ; National Public Radio, [2005].Bombal relates the story of the Cotton Club in New York City, with studio recordings of artists and songs introduced and performed at the club. He also presents a broadcast by Hellmut H. Hellmutt of the Reichs-Rundfunkgesellschaft, a supplier of pre-recorded programs to radio stations in Germany of the midnight show of April 20-21, 1931. It is the only known complete broadcast from the original location of the Cotton Club on 142nd Street at Lennox Avenue in Harlem and among the earliest surviving sound documents of German radio. The broadcast was discovered in the vaults of Sony/BMG by Sony/BMG archivist Michael Brooks. The last track on the disc is a copy of an excerpt from the news talk show Insight, in which Jeffrey Callison interviews Matías Bombal about the Swingin' at the Cotton Club program.
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Sony/BMG archivist consultant Michael Brooks, guest [sound recording] : 7/24/05
2005.Matías Bombal interviews Sony/BMG archivist Michael Brooks about his discovery in the Sony/BMG archives of a live broadcast from the Cotton Club, New York, Apr. 20-21, 1931, by Hellmut H. Hellmutt, of Reichs-Rundfunkgesellschaft (RRG), a supplier of pre-recorded programs for radio stations in Germany. The show is the only known recording/broadcast made from the Cotton Club's original 142nd and Lenox Ave. location in Harlem and among the earliest surviving sound documents of German radio. Performers included Cab Calloway, Lethia Hill, Eddie Rector, The Cotton Club Trio and The Cotton Club Band. Excerpts of the interview were broadcast on KXJZ (Capital Public Radio) as part of the radio programme Classic jazz and swing, hosted by Bombal, on a show called Swingin' at the Cotton Club.
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