Jazz 1959

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Charlie's out on parental leave, which means no one is here to stop Nate from going off the rails. And you know what means... JAZZ! As soon as dad left the room, Nate enlisted his favorite journalist, jazz and sports writer Natalie Weiner, to come on the show and discuss her incredible 1959 Project — a day-by-day chronicle of jazz during one of its most pivotal years. We listen to classic 1959 albums Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Dave Brubeck's Take Out, discuss the complex legacy of Billie Holiday, and dig into some of the year's forgotten gems. Sixty years later, jazz is no longer the cultural juggernaut is once was — but it still has much to teach us about pop culture of the present. Playlist: •Miles Davis - So What •Dave Brubeck - Take Five •Billie Holiday - Blue Moon •Billie Holiday - Billie's Blues •Erykah Badu - On & On •Amy Winehouse - There Is No Greater Love •Muriel Roberts - Sleigh Ride •Terry Pollard - Laura •Willene Barton and her Trio - Rice Pudding Check out the 1959 and 2019 jazz cuts we're listening to. We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here: https://voxmedia.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewVXHPZIsQNlxCR?Source=note Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.0	Welcome to Switched on Pop.
1:10.0	I'm musicologist Nate Sloan and with my erstwhile co-host Charlie Harding out on paternity leave,
1:18.0	it means there's no one to stop me from indulging in some of my more pop eccentric sensibilities,
1:25.0	namely today jazz.
1:36.0	Jazz might feel far from the center of popular culture, but that wasn't always the case.
1:43.0	At one point in time, jazz ruled popular culture and arguably the zenith of jazz's popularity was 60 years ago,
1:52.0	and it's a popular culture that takes on almost mythic proportions in the minds of many jazz lovers,
1:58.0	1959.
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