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<\/a><\/p>\nHer Mama Jazz show got its start in 1979 as a 2-hour format, becoming so popular that it eventually became a 4-hour, 5-days-a-week show.\u00a0Campbell has been described as \u201cfeisty as all get-out, passionately devoted to jazz and unabashedly loyal to her legions of fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell, who was born in 1922 in Eaton, traveled by train to Cleveland and Chicago in the early 1940’s to see big band performances by Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton and other jazz legends.\u00a0 In 1993, the George H. Buck Jazz Foundation in New Orleans honored Campbell for preserving the music of New Orleans jazz musician George Lewis by locating lost masters and having them digitally transferred to compact discs.<\/p>\n
The Campbell Family has generously donated, personal memorabilia, photographs, clippings, her reel-to-reel and 120 min. audio cassettes and 200 reel-to-reel tapes and 500 audio cassettes from her radio programs to the Miami University Archives. \u00a0Within in the collection are interviews with the jazz greats Lionel Hampton. This collections allows her memory to live in our hearts and ears!<\/p>\n
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\u201cHi. I\u2019m Mama Jazz and I\u2019m delighted to be back with you tonight!\u201d \u00a0That was the greeting often used by the lady with the smooth voice, Mama Jazz! Phyllis Campbell, also known as the incomparable\u00a0\u201cMama Jazz\u201d to her listeners on…<\/span><\/p>\n