Episodes

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a Doo Wop surprise, a dancing trivia question, an email from a...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a few records recorded on the same day, a big band era musician...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a little known bandleader with a famous wife, a big band baseball...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – It's all Ralphie from Canarsie Record Club list of Big Band Hits...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –Artie Shaw and Cole Porter, some of the most covered songs in...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –some history and tunes from New Jersey's Meadowbrook, a beloved...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –Glenn Miller's first recording as a bandleader, Lenny from Down...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –some well-known sibling musicians from the big band era,...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –Jeff Bressler spends the program catching up on listeners e-mails...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –Jeff Bressler tries to break his record-record in his attempt to...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a contemporary swing band, two great radio remotes, a look at one...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a look at the history of record speeds, a visit to one of the...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – some great nicknames of prominent band musicians and vocalists...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – some great big band music that was used in contemporary movies...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a few great stories about how songs got their titles, how fate...

Part 3 of three overnight hours of the best of 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s music. Big bands, jazz, blues, folk, early rock, do-op, bluegrass, and western swing mixed in with some great stories and humor by host Jeff Bressler Broadcast on Public,...

Part 2 of three overnight hours of the best of 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s music. Big bands, jazz, blues, folk, early rock, do-op, bluegrass, and western swing mixed in with some great stories and humor by host Jeff Bressler Broadcast on Public,...

Part 1 of three overnight hours of the best of 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s music. Big bands, jazz, blues, folk, early rock, do-op, bluegrass, and western swing mixed in with some great stories and humor by host Jeff Bressler Broadcast on Public,...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a special show featuring listener requests and random...

Part 3 of three overnight hours of the best of 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s music. Big bands, jazz, blues, folk, early rock, do-op, bluegrass, and western swing mixed in with some great stories and humor by host Jeff Bressler Broadcast on Public,...

Part 2 of three overnight hours of the best of 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s music. Big bands, jazz, blues, folk, early rock, do-op, bluegrass, and western swing mixed in with some great stories and humor by host Jeff Bressler Broadcast on Public,...

Part 1 of three overnight hours of the best of 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s music. Big bands, jazz, blues, folk, early rock, do-op, bluegrass, and western swing mixed in with some great stories and humor by host Jeff Bressler Broadcast on Public,...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – how a song gave a morale boost to WWII airmen, two musicians...

On this three-hour edition of the after-midnight Milkman's Matinee, Jeff Bressler offers his top 50 hits of 1940. The show, heard on public, community, and university radio stations, has been divided into three parts for podcast consumption.