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The dynamic duo work of cornet Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer was one of the greatest in early jazz. Their first recording dates...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 58:53
A new book, Road to Valor, by Aili and Andres McConnon is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 28:51
The mantra is that corporations are required to maximize shareholder value. That’s a complete falsehood according to corporate and business law pr...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 28:57
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
Across the country, a renaissance of local food, local farming and place based culinary traditions is taking hold. Yet, something small, critically...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 28:57
Attendees of Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day discuss God, chicken sandwiches, gay marriage, and the power of bad words.
Bought by KGNU
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 1
The blues melded with jazz long before the first recordings in the late teens. Although the music was, at least at first, structured on the 8 and 1...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Hugh Sinclair traveled to several continents while working for numerous banks, agencies and institutions, and saw microfinance from the ground up. ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
America’s middle class is in dramatic decline. But, what caused the downfall?
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Give a listen to some of those very hot bands of the 1920s. You may not recognize many of the names, but that doesn't lessen their impact.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 58:58
In his book, Harvest the Wind: America’s Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability, Philip Warburg takes us behind the scenes of ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 28:48
The origin of his nickname is disputed. Regardless of the reasons, Francis Joseph Julian Spanier was simply known as Muggsy. Before Bix Beiderbeck...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 23:43
- Purchases: 1
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 19:58
America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is-a world leader in self-government, industry and technology, and po...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 14:41
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a THRILLING story about a book that meant everything. A thousand years ago the most per...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 29:00
The third edition of the Great Northern Radio Show has us at the John Chalberg Theater in Brainerd. Titled "Maybe About Trains," this radio variety...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 01:59:22
- Purchases: 2
Harold Arlen wrote some of the greatest hits jazz and popular music, including the entire score to the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. But there a...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 58:58
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:55
This is a glimpse at some of those talented bands of the 1920s and ‘30s who only recorded a few sides in their brief careers. There is some buried...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 58:01
The StudioTalk presents Ranajit Sengupta, a sarod player from Kolkata (India), film composer, lecturer for Indian Classical Music, working on resea...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 58:01
Who were the mysterious Maya? Their predecessors were nomadic hunters. They followed game animals across the Bering Land Bridge, and populated the ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 27:00
