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Hot Club Jazz Listening Session with Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts

Music you’ve probably heard about but have never heard before 

These listening sessions share jazz on 78rpm record—the oldest and rarest records that capture truly high-quality sound.   It’s like book club for jazz heads. 
Taught by jazz historian, pianist, and collector Tom Roberts and held on zoom. 

The first session focuses on Bix Beiderbecke, The young man with a horn. Bix opened up a new world of emotional complexity coupled with a lyricism that influenced everyone from Lester Young to Miles Davis. Bix was the first jazz musician to gain inspiration from modern European classical composers like Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky, and to incorporate their innovations within his own improvisations.