Monday, 7/15/2024,10pm - Annals of Jazz with Richard Hadlock

1943: The Lost Year, Part 1 (Originally Aired 04/14/2013). The reason why those who document Jazz call 1943, the lost year, was because that was the year that James Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians Union decided to call a strike against the record companies. He was looking for more royalties for the musicians and it was a perfectly legitimate thing except that WWII was on and it made life more difficult for musicians because they could not get advances for recording gigs, and many were being drafted. Almost overnight it assisted in getting rid of the big bands. When the war ended it changed everything. But the real loss was an undocumented chunk of jazz history that includes the beginnings of Bebop and the emergence of prolific talents like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as well as the revivalist movement with New Orleans great like Bunk Johnson and Kid Ory coming out of retirement. In this episode Richard Hadlock makes up for lost ground by sharing recordings, some legal and some illegal at the time, of 1943, The Lost Year. (Part One)