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"Sorry, Wrong Number" ---
Produced eight times between 1943 and 1960, "Sorry, Wrong Number," Lucille Fletcher’s phenomenal success is radio’s mos...
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 21:03
While visiting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, I had the good fortune to meet a Maya subsistence farmer named Bartolo. When Bartolo found out I was int...
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 05:05
Jazz drummers have gotta be some of the most unheralded of jazz's many unsung heroes. This week we dissect their art and craft with world-renowned ...
Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KDRP Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WOUB and more
- Added: Dec 31, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Achieving full employment has been at the center of the progressive project for more than a century. If work is available at decent wages for ever...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Benny Moten led the Kansas City Orchestra in the 1920s, arguably the most influential big bands of the era. His arrangements helped to create what...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
IN THE WINTER COMES A BERRY...
Bought by KRCB-FM
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Some of the best music from the 1920s with Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, and many more to welcome in the New Year.
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 3
Our monthly series the Tin Roof Project, featuring award-winning actress Ann Talman reading her true story "Drenalin!" and then chatting with host ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A representation of a 1996 Act Up! action in which protesters threw ashes of friends, families, and lovers who died of AIDS onto the white house la...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 07:12
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...
- Added: Dec 25, 2012
- Length: :00
Jazz isn't the only form of music that has great solos, but it wouldn't be what it is without 'em. This week we take a look at the art and craft of...
Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNCU, KSFR, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 24, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
A sound collage exploring the fringe world of plant consciousness and communication along with its peculiar relationship with music. At some point...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :00
In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustra...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Dec 23, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
Across the nation in dozens of communities, veterans are being diverted to special courts for crimes they've committed after and in large measure b...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 03:43
Mad Genius presents the latest story-song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "The Police Made Them Hold Hands And Close Their Eyes."
C...
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 04:18
A collection of children's choirs, inspirational music, and personal remembrances, mixed with Barack Obama speaking in Newtown, CT Sunday night.
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 57:33
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 1
IN DECEMBER SEE HER NEST...
Bought by KRCB-FM
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Average Americans are painfully aware of the challenges we face as a nation – joblessness, failing schools, declining health, intractable poverty, ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 1
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we get you in the spirit with an hour of some of the best—and off-the-beaten-path—holiday jazz.
Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KMUN, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 04:17
Daily routines can become monotonous, but when dealing with mental illness these tasks can feel insurmountable. Student producer Alanna Duncan take...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 02:19
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:46
