Ep. 193 | Whitey Smith and Early Shanghai Jazz
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Laszlo tries something new. This time we look at the life and times of Whitey Smith, an important figure in the context of not only Shanghai Jazz, but the entirety of jazz history.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon everyone all over the world. |
| 0:03.8 | The Lozla Montgomery here with a fresh new episode for a fresh new year, 2018. |
| 0:09.3 | Going to be the dog year starting on February 16th. Every dog has its day, could be a good one. |
| 0:16.0 | Well we finally got that nine-part philosophy series over and done with. I hope that free |
| 0:21.0 | infographic provided at the outset is hanging up on a few walls somewhere. |
| 0:26.0 | I got mine, all laminated and everything. |
| 0:30.0 | After all this stomping around through the history of confusion and Taoist thought, we're now going to kick back and take on something a little less ponderous. |
| 0:40.0 | That isn't going to ask too much of you. |
| 0:42.0 | Not going to have a lot of Chinese terms, |
| 0:44.0 | and I'm going to have to explain on the website. |
| 0:46.0 | Just kick back and continue doing whatever you're doing right now. |
| 0:50.0 | Our subject today isn't anyone famous. I'm sure you saw the title of this |
| 0:55.8 | episode and wondered who the hell is this guy. I checked and there didn't seem to be a |
| 1:01.6 | single history book that included this story. |
| 1:04.3 | But today's subject, Whitey Smith, he sure lived through some historic times. |
| 1:09.7 | For this particular tale, I'm drawing from that deep well of books about China and beyond. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah, you heard me mention them before. The venerable Hong Kong publishing house Earn Shaw Books. |
| 1:22.1 | Not the first time I drew from that well. Those Back House |
| 1:25.7 | episodes, C. H.P. 137. 138. 139. I used that book edited by Derek Sandhouse. |
| 1:32.0 | Decidence, Shoe. |
| 1:34.0 | Also that Jack Jones episode, |
| 1:36.4 | CHP 160, Andrew Hicks, authored that one about the Friends Ambulance Unit in China. |
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