Guy Rathbun
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- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Guy Rathbun
Phrasing
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From: Guy Rathbun
It’s easy to overlook the skill that goes into the art of good phrasing in jazz. The challenge for the vocalist or instrumentalist is to have creative expression, emotion, ...
White Christian Privilege
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From: Guy Rathbun
America holds the promise of religious freedom. The US is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world. In reality, though, Christian views and values are ...
Black Kings of Swing
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From: Guy Rathbun
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong set ...
Plagues Upon the Earth
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From: Guy Rathbun
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well we endure the effects of ...
It Sounds So Easy
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From: Guy Rathbun
Improvisation is an inseparable part of jazz. The idea is that a musician takes the melody and embellishes the structure. It’s very much like composition on the fly. Although ...
Perilous Medicine
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From: Guy Rathbun
It’s a horrific common occurrence in war. Especially modern warfare. Hospitals and health care facilities are relentlessly under attack, and health care workers die. The ...
Serenaders and Syncopators
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From: Guy Rathbun
1920s Chicago South Side featured an abundance of talented musicians. Although mostly forgotten today, even among jazz buffs, is Cara Taylor. Her performance moniker is ...
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
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From: Guy Rathbun
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the past. Some even say that ...
Sideshow
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From: Guy Rathbun
The program features musicians you may have never heard. Although very good, they were mostly territorial. That is, for whatever reason, they chose to stay close to home. ...
