Jan. 18, 1944
It’s Tuesday in 1944 and today we have:
— “Molly Gets Flowers From a Man Named Ralph” on “Fibber McGee and Molly.”
—Esquire’s “All-American Jazz Band” from the Metropolitan Opera House. This is a terrific find. The audio quality is fairly decent for the 1940s and look at the personnel. The announced performers are singer Billie Holiday; drums, Sid Catlett; trombone: Jack Teagarden; clarinet: Barney Bigard, saxophone: Coleman Hawkins, trumpet: Roy Eldridge. Other online sources also list Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum, Red Norvo, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Pettiford, Al Casey and Mildred Bailey.
Here’s the mp3 version in case your browser doesn’t have a plug-in for the ogg format.
Both recordings courtesy of Archive.org.
ladailymirror.com 
Why do i have to download software in order to hear this jazz concert? What is the url?
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Your browser must not be set up to play ogg files and your browser needs the plug-in. Let me find the mp3 link. This actually is a url, it’s truncated because the original is long.
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Here’s the mp3 version. Your browser should be able to play that.
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