Jubilee

Black-oriented swing, jazz, bop and variety show.

Broadcast History
Oct 9, 1942 - Aug 14, 1953

Transcribed by the Special Services Division of the War Department 
until 1943 then by the Armed Forces Radio Service.


An important series in the musical history of radio, Jubilee was a 
morale-building service for black troops and was aired for military 
personnel, but never broadcast at home. "Bubbles" Whitman was the 
jive-talking war-time host who introduced many famous live-studio 
audience jazz performances of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Max 
Roach and many others.

Most of the shows were recorded before live audiences in Los 
Angeles; either at network studios or in the facilities of such 
syndicators as C.P. MacGregor and Universal Recorders.  The series 
has emerged as an important piece of black heritage: its War 
Department status exempted the performing artists from the union-
mandated recording bans of 1942-43 and 1947-48, and many of the 
discs contain unique performances.  A massive two-volume history 
and discogrpahy of the series was compiled by Rainer E Lotz and 
Ulrich Neuert in 1985.


'The AFRS Jubilee Transcription Programs: An Exploratory 
Discography' is out of print.  I found one copy for sale on the 
net at over $3,000.