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Staccato Cello Fortress
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: Cello Fortress Logo, Credit: Joost van Dongen
Cello Fortress us a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
Tom Owens, The Vegetarian
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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Our Killer meets her first victim

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/18/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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FINGERS WEAR TAP SHOES ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Puttin' On the Ritz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Composer and lyricist Jerome Kern summed up the life and work of Israel Baline (Irving Berlin) when he said, “Irving Berlin has no place in America...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Voyages with Ms. Dawn
From: Dawn Amadea
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Set Sail on a Musical Voyage through History.

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
Billie Holiday
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
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Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KDRP Community Radio, WOUB, KZYX, WCMU Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Vintage Tomorrow's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vintage Tomorrow's jacket cover, Credit: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Blues Unlimited #197 - Blues from Candid Records
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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We take a look at the recordings that Memphis Slim, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Otis Spann made in New York City for the Candid label in 1960 and 1961.....

  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/11/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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I BECOME POINTLESS ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Philadelphia Chromosome
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jessica Wapner
Jessica Wapner, freelance journalist, open her book in 1959 when a chromosomal mutation, christened “the Philadelphia Chromosome.” Was discovered. ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Kid
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Kid Ory
By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Frank Zappa
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Frank Zappa
His music was an amalgam of classical music, jazz, R&B, doowop, poetry and—sometimes—just plain noise. And Frank Zappa the man had even more to him...

Bought by WYSO, WRGY, KPVL, Prairie Public, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Blues Unlimited #196 - Down Home Post-War Favorites
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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No particular theme on this one, just a grab bag full of post-war rockers and down home favorites from Lightnin' Hopkins, Dr. Ross, K.C. Douglas, J...

  • Added: May 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
Goodbyes and Comebacks
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
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Farewell to George Jones-- and hell-o again to Natalie Maines! This week's hour long musical mystery tour includes Jim James, Patty Smith and more.

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:41
Riddles from the Border Regions, 5/4/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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ROUND AS A TEAPOT ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Wizard of Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Jean Houston
Author and philosopher Jean Houston offers a guidepost into the world of Dorothy and L Frank Baum in which she delves into the deeper messages held...

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
Constitutional Myths
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ray Raphael
By entering the world of the Constitution’s framers, and experiencing it one day after the next as they did, constitutional scholar Ray Raphael hel...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Hawk: 40-years with Coleman Hawkins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Considered the first great tenor saxophonist in jazz, Coleman Hawkins was a child he was a gifted musician. In 1922, Mamie Smith spotted him in and...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
100 Years of Jazz's Avant Garde
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman
This week on the program, we dare to go where many jazz fans dare not tread as we explore 100 years of the jazz avant garde.

Bought by WRGY, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Blues Unlimited #195 - Soulful Stax Covers
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: The hit-making house band at Stax, Booker T. & the MGs (Left to Right: Booker T. Jones, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, and Al Jackson, Jr.)
Join us as we enjoy some great cover versions of blues, pop, rock, folk, and R&B classics that were recorded down at the legendary Stax label in Me...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
Riddles from the Border Regions, 4/27/13
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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THE WORLD IS HELD ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 123: Awkward Situations
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: Tanya Fitzgerald reads on Tales from the South
This week our writers all find themselves in awkward situations. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Paul Bowen, and Tanya Fitzgerald. True stories told by t...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Tales from the South 121: The Love Show
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Season 8, 2013 Spring Season
Caption: J.W. Taylor reads on Tales from the South
Our Annual Love Show, with stories about the things we do for love. Stories by Sandra Hamilton, Pat Gillum, and J.W. Taylor. True stories told by t...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 34:00
Dollars and Sex
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Marina Adshade
Dr. Marina Adshade provides a fascinating look at just how central the interplay of libido, gender, love, power and economic forces is to the most ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Porch Swing: Episode 104
From: WFHB
Series: The Porch Swing
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Please don't feed the large reptiles! An American in Vienna finds herself at the bountiful mercy of strangers; A man seeking treatment for depressi...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:03

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