Larry Tye on "Jazzmen" Ellington, Armstrong and Basie

KUT 90.5 | By John L. Hanson Jr.

Published August 27, 2024 at 6:02 PM CDT

Black and White photo pf Larry Tye in windbreaker in front of the ocean — Historian and author Larry Tye

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Larry Tye, historian, former reporter with the Boston Globe, former journalism professor, and author of ‘The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.’
Born within a few years of one another, they overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.

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John L. Hanson Jr.

John L. Hanson is the producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio series In Black America. It’s heard on home station KUT at 10 p.m. Tuesdays and 6:30 a.m. Sundays — and weekly on close to 20 stations across the country. The weekly podcast of IBA, the only nationally broadcast Black-oriented public affairs radio program, is one of KUT’s most popular podcasts.

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