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Chet Baker
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, WCMU Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz's Great Comeback Stories
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Guitarist Pat Martino survived a brain aneurysm to become one of the most soulful voices of jazz guitar.
It may be hard to imagine, but in the 1950's, the great Duke Ellington was seen as a "has been." This week we explore the real-life legend of Duke'...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KMUN, WNJR, WCMU Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
John Coltrane
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Sax titan John Coltrane
In this hour, it's the life and legend of John Coltrane—from his rural North Carolina roots to his place as one of jazz's most spiritual men and mu...

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


  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Culturology: "Summer Nights, Summer Lights," an essay by Michael Forbes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Michael Forbes
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
Jazz and Spirituality
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Roger Lewis at a jazz funeral in 2010., Credit: Kim Welsh
In this hour, we go in search of jazz's spiritual side—from the sacred roots of sax titan John Coltrane to the unique New Orleans spiritual traditi...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Nina Simone
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The "High Priestess of Soul," Nina Simone
In this hour, it's the life and music of Nina Simone—from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of jazz's fiercest voice...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, Troy Public Radio, WRGY, KHNS, WJSU and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "My Mother Is Now Earth" by Mark Anthony Rolo
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: "My Mother Is Now Earth" by Mark Anthony Rolo
Dan Sinykin is pursuing a Ph.D. in literature and currently lives in Bemidji. Dan recently read and reviewed Mark Anthony Rolo’s new memoir “My Mot...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
Centerstage Minnesota: Big Walter Smith
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Centerstage MN
Caption: Big Walter Smith
This week, in honor of Big Walter Smith, we focus on the blues in Minnesota. The feature segment is an intimate interview recorded in 2010 in which...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTIP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 3
VoiceBox: Swinging the Latin American Songbook
From: VoiceBox
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Venezuelan vocalist Jimmy Kansau takes listeners on a journey through the music of early to mid 20th century Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Muddy Jungle Rivers: Wendell Affield talk about his Vietnam memoir
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Real Good Words
Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
VoiceBox: As Good As The Original: On Translating Operas into English
From: VoiceBox
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The art of opera translation is subtle yet crucial. Get it right, and the audience feels like they’re experiencing the work with as much richness a...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
Chet Baker
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz trumpeter/vocalist double threat Chet Baker.
Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, KPVL, Interlochen Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 7
In Search of a Song: Remembering Bill Wilson
From: ISOAS Media
Series: In Search of a Song with Jason Wilber
Caption: Bill Wilson
Host Jason Wilber and WFHB Music Director Jim Manion talk about the late, great Indiana singer/songwriter Bill Wilson.

Bought by WNKU


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sean Hill: Blood Ties and Brown Liquor
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Real Good Words
Caption: Sean Hill
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Munger joins Heidi Holtan on Real Good Words to read a recent essay about his writing routine.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Real Good Words
Caption: The Skier, the Buddha, and Papa, Credit: Mark Munger
After twenty years of doing it, Mark Munger conveys this writer's "personification of pattern" as he recites this recent essay about his morning wr...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz and Spirituality
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Roger Lewis at a jazz funeral in 2010., Credit: Kim Welsh
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we go in search of jazz's spiritual side—from the sacred roots of sax titan John Coltrane to the unique New Orle...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNCU, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, WCMU Public Radio, and WEMU


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Japanese poet and fiction writer Mariko Nagai
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Mariko Nagai
Japanese poet and fiction writer Mariko Nagai draws from history and personal experience to explore different types of love and desire and to depic...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
A Conversation with Wesley Stace / John Wesley Harding
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Novelist Wesley Stace, who performs under the stage name, John Wesley Harding, discusses his work.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:27
Prize-winning novelist Heidi Durrow
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
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First-time novelist Heidi Durrow talks about her prize-winning book, THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, and how she intertwined a newspaper story with...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
A Musician's Life: Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves
From: WXPN
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Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE


  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Marilyn Crispell
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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Crispell combines classical training with great jazz skills

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Truth About Dracula
From: Hillary Frank
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Suzanne Muldowney explains why her interpretation of Dracula is the most authentic.

Bought by KUT, KDNK, KUOW, KRUA, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 6
Poverty On Trial
From: WMPG
Series: The Local Option - Features
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WMPG producer Jessica Lockhart reports back from Portland's first ever Economic Human Rights Truth Commission, sponsored by Portland Organizing to ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2006
  • Length: 08:07
Do the right thing (es#146)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What motivates us to do the right thing?

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
TOE/Living in the Moment
From: Benjamen Walker
Series: Theory of Everything
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Radio men, bloggers, and story tellers seek to share unmediated experience.

Bought by KUOW, KALW, and WBEZ


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3