This Is Jazz is a half-hour program of live jazz improvised by a group of veteran musicians, introduced by writer and narrator Rudy Bletch. The episode, first broadcast on February 8, 1947, opens with a roll call of the players: cornetist Muggsy Spanier, clarinetist Albert Nicholas, trombonist George Brunies, guitarist Danny Barker, drummer Baby Dodds, pianist Lucky Roberts and bassist Cyrus St. Clair. The band performs the classic Muskrat Ramble, then a version of Tin Roof Blues sung by Brunies, and the program goes on to explain how improvisation differs from a printed score. Lucky Roberts then plays solo ragtime piano.

With Rudy Bletch, Muggsy Spanier, Albert Nicholas, George Brunies, Danny Barker, Baby Dodds, Lucky Roberts, Cyrus St. Clair.

Listen for: The band's improvised version of Muskrat Ramble and Lucky Roberts' slow solo piano performance, which he has recast under a different title.

First aired on February 8, 1947.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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