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Jazz and Comedy
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz funnyman Cab Calloway
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KPVL, WOUB, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The Incredible Rahsaan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, Radio New Zealand, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Big Bands
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Duke Ellington and his orchestra
Think of a jazz big band and it's probably the brassy sound of a '30s swing orchestra that comes to mind first. But throughout their more than 80-y...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, Troy Public Radio, WRGY, 90.5 WSNC, KDPI 89.3 FM and more


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
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 KBGA 89.9 FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Radio New Zealand, Troy Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Gentle Women of Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Valaida Snow
This one hour program highlights some of the greatest and obscure female jazz musicians of all time. These great ladies are masters of the harp, vi...

  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 56:08
“Framed, Captured and Gagged: State Repression of Black Radicals in the 1960's”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Great Jazz Cities: Philadelphia
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Philadelphia trumpeter Clifford Brown
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we're continuing our ongoing tour of America's "Great Jazz Cities" with the stories and sounds of jazz in Philad...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRGY, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Jazz and Literature
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz poet Langston Hughes
What do Langston Hughes, the 50's Beat writers, and jazz critics all have in common? They all like to write about jazz. This week we'll take a look...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Great Jazz Cities: St. Louis
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: St. Louis favorite son Miles Davis
In this hour, we continue our series on America's Great Jazz Cities with the forgotten history of jazz and the blues in St. Louis.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Lucy Parsons
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
Laura Smith Haviland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
Fannie Lou Hamer
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:22
African Roots of Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz all-star Art Blakey
It's almost taken for granted today that jazz grew out of African music. But when you get down to it, the connections that make up jazz's African h...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN, WNCU and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Yolanda Williams
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detain of Yolanda's portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
Blue Note Records
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Living sax legend Sonny Rollins, Credit: Francis Wolff
In this hour, it's the myth and magic of the label that defined mid-century jazz: Blue Note Records.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, KDRP Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
(Ball & Chain)The Musical story of Big Mama Thornton
From: Howard Burchette
Series: D Natural BLUES
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Willie Mae "BIG MAMMA" THORNTON was a Blues singer, musician and songwriter. She had a short life and is best known for the songs "Hound Dog" and "...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WVAS


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 55:36
  • Purchases: 2
The Writ Writer episode Five
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Ku Klux Klan 1920s
This is the fifth and concluding episode of The Writ Writer by Michael Murphy based on the true story of black attorney Scipio Africanus Jones. Onc...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
The Writ Writer episode four
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: "The Gazette" October 3, 1919
At the end of episode three, attorney Col. Murphy collapsed during the trial for the Elaine defendants, and died a few days later. Scipio Jones is...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:54
(The Electrifying) Eddie Harris
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Eddie Harris, Credit: Atlantic Records
EDDIE HARRIS was an jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also flu...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Writ Writer episode three
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Headlines
At the end of episode two, attorney’s Jones and Murphy meet with the Elaine Defendants, and begin working on appealing the murder convictions.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:50
The Writ Writer episode two
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Southern Cotton Picker
Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones. At the end of episode one, black attorney Jones was faces with taking on a racially charged mu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
Jazz and the American Road
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: North or south, Highway 61 is America's "Blues Highway"
The myth and magic of the American road is one of the defining themes in American life. This week we hit the road in search of the highways and byw...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Writ Writer episode one
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Arkansas News
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 28:48

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