Reggie Watkins Listening and Liner Notes - Blues and Early Jazz - Carnegie in Carnegie

On the Record: Listening & Liner Notes is a four-part series bringing Carnegie’s own Reggie Watkins into conversation with the music that made jazz what it is. Equal parts listening party and guided discussion, each session explores a different era of jazz history through the recordings themselves.

In this first session, Blues and Early Jazz, Watkins traces the roots of the music, from the blues traditions that gave jazz its soul to the earliest recordings that put it on the map.