Continuing the programme

[Adele Edisen]

Thank you, Magda. Yes, I guess those times and places were interesting and historic in many ways, although at the time I didn't notice that. It was the post-war period and there were many changes happening, such as the realization that we were part of a larger community than just the US - there was the rest of the world. All sorts of social rumblings of civil rights and women's movements were straining to bring the earlier efforts of the 19th Century to completion, a still an ongoing process. Popular music was having its own revolution, and new jazz forms were coming into being with new musical scales, new uses of instruments, new voices. The jazz musicians were playing what I would call 'protest' music against the established traditions of life in America. That was Be-Bop and modern jazz played by talented and sophisicated musicians, many of whom were trained in classical music, but played jazz for a living and for the joy of it.

And may I add a list of songs by Sarah to which you can listen, to the wonderful selections you provided?

http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_56233/sa...ghan/songs

Jim, it's a very long list, and I thought you might enjoy having access to it, along with Magda's selections.

Adele