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Minnesota’s Dixieland Jazz scene was entering its heyday in the mid-1950s when the Rampart Street Club was opened. Producer Daniel Zamzow explains how Minnesota’s own Doc Evans championed the effort to open its doors. [Read Transcript...]
In the 1930s, Jeanie Arland met her future husband and fellow musician Willie Peterson at WCCO. Producer Daniel Zamzow describes how, over time, these working musicians would turn their love of music into a family legacy. [Read Transcript...]
Flamingo was the predecessor to The Flamin’ Oh’s, a band whose highest notes came in the early and mid-1980s. But, as Daniel Zamzow describes, Flamingo stands on its own legacy - one based on their live shows in the late ‘70s, surviving today only in memory. [Read Transcript...]
“Daddy Squeeze” Dan Newton and his band Cafe Accordion Orchestra were pleasantly surprised after playing their music for a seemingly absent audience one night in 2001. Producer Daniel Zamzow describes the unpredictable circumstances that took the Minnesota group to a new level. [Read Transcript...]
