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Singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab Calloway is often referred to as the “hi- di -hi- di-ho” man. His nonsensical sounds and improvised melodies ma...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 03:02
Self taught pianist, Art Tatum is acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. Listen as Rabbi Neil discusses the life of the inn...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Coming from a troubled childhood, Ella Fitzgerald found solace in music and song. Discovered at age 17, after singing in the style of the Boswell s...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 02:54
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 03:00
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong is consider one of the most important musicians of the 20th century. With his innovations in ensemble playing and his dis...
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- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 03:00
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Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...
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- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Thelonious Monk was an original voice in the shaping the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano playing continue t...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
4 Moments with legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jan 21, 2012
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 1
The Sonny Boy Williamson classic, Good Morning Little School Girl is one of the most recorded blues tunes in history, but it’s just one of more tha...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 05:36
In time for Holy Week, we open with a piece on Blind Willy Johnson, a Texas street preacher who created the quintessential Good Friday blues gospel...
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: 07:28
For our fourth show we take on one of the most difficult topics to ever be expressed in popular music. Racial relations... and the ugly history of ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 07:30
The first in our daily series of musical trips to the Mississippi Delta. We take a ride with Huddy Ledbetter (and a few others) on the Midnight Spe...
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 05:30
Outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem, fans and well-wishers gathered to pay tribute to Michael Jackson.
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: 02:07
Visitors to the Smithsonian American Art Museum describe what they see in a a quilt created in 1992 by Otesia Harper … “Coke Covers the World.”
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- Length: 03:23
Michael Hill says he doesn't judge people but he does judge actions. His music addresses the injustices he sees in the neighborhoods of New York a...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and Mississippi Public Broadcasting
- Added: Dec 23, 2008
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 2
As a young sax player, C.J. Chenier planned to pursue a career in jazz. Then his father Zydeco great Clifton Chenier, recruited his son to play in...
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- Added: Nov 20, 2008
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
What one young man wants more than anything: height
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 01:33
Thelonius Monk's vote of confidence helped NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln develop into one of the best jazz singers and songwriters of our time.
- Added: Mar 28, 2008
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 3
Drummer and NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton talks about the interplay between performer and audience, performing with Duke Ellington, and touring du...
- Added: Mar 28, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 11
NEA Jazz Master Slide Hampton on the art of improvisation: "If you don't know how to improvise, you're gonna find yourself in a lot of stressful si...
Bought by WNCU, WKMS, 90.5 WSNC, 90.5 WSNC, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2008
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 10
2007 NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis is probably best known for his 1965 surprise hit "The In-Crowd." The title track appeared on his trio's 17th alb...
- Added: Mar 28, 2008
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 11
