MPR's arts reporter Nancy Fushan and Jazz Image host Leigh Kamman prepared this sound portrait of the the post-1950s and contemporary jazz scene in the Twin Cities, collecting stories from musicians, educators, and club owners on an era of both creativity and strife.
Topics include the struggle fragmentation of local scene, race issues, lack of radio representation, music study vs. club performance, and interviews with Art Resnick, Mike Elliott, Sid Farrar, Bobby Lyle, Roberta Davis, and Milo Fine, amongst others.
Program includes music elements.
[NOTE: this is MONO version of program]
This is part two of two.
Click link below for part one, which looks at the the late 1920s to the 1950s jazz scene in the Twin Cities:
https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1978/05/16/jazz-in-the-twin-cities-part-1