This week on The New Jazz Archive, we go in search of some of the long-lost jazz and blues traditions of the great jazz city of St. Louis. We’ll talk with historian Kevin Belford about how St. Louis' rich blues heritage got written out of the jazz history books, and take a look at how the turn-of-the-century Mississippi River riverboat economy shaped the early St. Louis music scene. And we’ll chat with jazz historian Ben Cawthra about St. Louis favorite son Miles Davis’s years growing up in the Gateway City, and explore how Father of the Blues W.C. Handy’s hard luck time in St. Louis inspired one of the music’s all time classics.
Great Jazz Cities: St. Louis
