Latest Episodes from Phantom Dancer

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 3rd Dec 2024

Orrin Tucker, US saxophonist, singer, band leader, showman and centenarian is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. His band's success in the late 1930s was largely due to his singer, Wee Bonnie Baker. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 26th Nov 2024

Alexander Tsfasman, was a Soviet jazz pianist, composer, orchestrator, conductor, bandleader, publicist and public figure. His recorded output covered original compositions including Gershwinesque and Whitemanesque suites, Russian, German, and American jazz tunes. Tsfasman was the first to record jazz in the Soviet Union. He was was the only Russian member of the International Jazz Federation. Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 5th Nov 2024

Fred Astaire - singer - on a 1936 US Presidential election radio show is your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.You'll hear Fred Astaire (actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, television presenter and considered the most influential dancer in the history of film) singing and tap dancing on a special election night edition of The Packard Hour radio show Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 22nd Oct 2024

Adolf Steimel was a German dance band leader, composer, organist and pianist. He is known for Wir machen Musik (1942), Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (1944) and Einmaleins der Ehe (1949). Hear him on this week's Phantom Dancer... Read More

Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 15th Oct 2024

Eddie Heywood was an American jazz pianist and composer active in the 1940s and 1950s. His career was interrupted in the 1950s and 60s by hand paralysis. He's your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week. Read More