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Episode 18: "Crazy James" Zinkand - The Bobby Pickles Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: The Bobby Pickles Podcast
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Bobby is on location at the Museum of Sex (MoSex) in New York City where he speaks with “Crazy James” Zinkand from the CBS reality show, Big Brothe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
Episode 14: America's Worst Tattoos/Jeremy Swan, Michael Burko - The Bobby Pickles Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: The Bobby Pickles Podcast
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Bobby speaks with Jeremy Swan, an amazing and talented tattooer, and curator of Broken Art Tattoo in Los Angeles. This episode of the podcast was c...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:03
"A Delicate Balance" in Rehearsal
From: Alison Turner
Caption: The Warehouse Theatre in Brussels, Belgium
The American Theater Company in Brussels, Belgium, will perform Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play, "A Delicate Balance" in January 2013. ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
Mory's Temple Bar: An Audio Postcard
From: Cuchulain Kelly
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mory's Temple Bar is more than just a New Haven restaurant - it's a Yale University tradition. The story of Mory's goes hand-in-hand with the story...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
JazzStories: Gretchen Parlato
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: George Wein
From: Murray Street Productions
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George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, has created countless festivals worldwide and can be connected to every important jazz musician ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2012
  • Length: 15:27
This Week in Texas Music History: Erbie Bowser
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the journey one musician made from the fields of west ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Ike Reynolds
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of September (9/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped establish the first Baptist mus...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:43
JazzStories: Rudresh Mahanthappa
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"And he said we’ll I don’t want to play any of those 7s or 11s or 13s or 22s. I don’t want to play any of that stuff that you’re writing. He said b...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:32
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Gary Burton and Julian Lage
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by WNCU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 2
JazzStories: Barry Harris and Billy Higgins – The Majesty of Tap
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Barry Harris, Billy Higgins
In the 40s, jazzmen came of age on the stages of dance halls. Pianist Barry Harris and drummer Billy Higgins capture the view from those stages.

Bought by WNCU, KFOK-LP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Bill Frisell
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:41
Steve Boman's "Film School"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Real Good Words
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A career journalist takes on and eventually overcomes artistic, academic, and health challenges and lives to tell about it in "Film School."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Smith's "A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors" is the subject
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Real Good Words
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Advertising industry veteran Peter Smith explores life's minor trauma's in his sometimes humorous, sometimes raw "A Cavalcade of Lesser Horrors."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 19:06
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Joe Henderson
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"You’ve got this reservoir of ideas are roaming around in your brain and you want to put them down on paper and pass those out to the trumpet playe...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Percy Heath
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WNCU and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 15:31
  • Purchases: 2
JazzStories: Henry Threadgill
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
1972: The Birth of Pong and the Rise of Video Games
From: Action Speaks
Series: Action Speaks! 2011 Season: Conflict and Amusement in America: How Can it Hurt if it's so Much Fun?
Caption: A snapshot of Pong , Credit: Google Images
Pong introduced America to video games and now there seems to be no turning back. Is this why we don't leave our houses anymore?

Bought by KUNM, WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
JazzStories: Wynton Marsalis
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Wynton Marsalis
"For me I always grew up watching my father and other jazz musicians, they never played for that many people, they were always struggling. They did...

Bought by WCSU-FM, Public Radio Remix, and WEKU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 18:54
  • Purchases: 3
Jazz Tap: Stumpy Cromer and Jared Grimes
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“And then we used to play hockey in the street, roller skate hockey. So while I was up there playing roller skate hockey I was moving my feet aroun...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 13:21
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Frank Foster
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote d...

Bought by WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 3
Mountain Bikers Response To Galbraith Logging
From: Kendrick Bradley
Caption: Galbraith Biker
Kendrick Bradley is a mountain biker. He’s from Bellingham. One of his favorite spots to ride is Galbraith Mountain – it’s practically his backyard...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:44
JazzStories: Jose James
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Jose James
“Music was unexpected. I always wanted to be a writer and I still do. I was always turned on by words, by the way people could use words and that k...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Crowd-sourcing Biological Solutions Through Gaming
From: Sarah Lilley
Caption: Fold.It screen shot
A web-based video game called FoldIt uses crowd-sourcing in the hopes of solving some very big -- er, tiny -- biological problems.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
JazzStories: Ron Carter
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I was on my way to being a decent bass player, and at that time there were a lot of clubs in New York, a lot of recordings going on....talking to ...

Bought by WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU, and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4