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Jazz File: Jump Jive and Wail: 3: Just a Gigolo

BBC Radio 3
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Another programme exploring jump jive jazz rooted in the dance floor.

By the end of the forties the greatest names of the big band era were downsizing, yet jump, modified by the influence of rhythm and blues, continued to be a popular style. The biggest star of fifties jump jive was rooted in Las Vegas cabaret but Louis Prima's band swung just as hard as any. Rhythm and blues and then rock and roll, offspring of the jump style, started to take the audience away.

Source: Radio Times

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