Basin Street

Thank you.

¶¶ Oh, Basin Street is a street Where the dark and the light folks meet.

New Orleans, the land of

dreams.

And for the rest of his life, from 1947 until he died in 1971, he toured with a group called the All-Stars, which was a six-piece Dixieland group.

And the two broadcasts we're going to hear feature some players who were later part of the All-Stars, but sort of got him back into the small group swing of things, as it were.

The first two tunes we heard were from his 1920s period, the Dipper Mouth Blues and the Basin Street Blues, and these were done on the program This Is Jazz on April 26th of 1947.

This was a program that happened every week for a better part of a year, I guess.