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Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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 WEMU, Spokane Public Radio, and Interlochen Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sam Lanin
Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
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

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
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FINGERS WEAR TAP SHOES ...

Bought by KRCB-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
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Set Sail on a Musical Voyage through History.

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:32
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Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WOUB, KZYX, WCMU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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
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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

  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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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
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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

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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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
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
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

  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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