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The 2009 Grammy winner talks about finding her voice, with a little help from Miles Davis and musical parents who figured "you're going to get the ...

Bought by WNCU, KGLT, KUCB, WMPG, KMHD and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 00:04:45
  • Licenses: 8
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Joseph Shabalala describes how the vision for Ladysmith Black Mambazo came to him in a dream -- in four-part harmony. Shabalala's voice takes on m...

Bought by KMHD, KNAU, WHQR, BSR Radio, WCVE and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 00:05:17
  • Licenses: 6
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A late-career portrait of one of rock-and-roll's legendary creators.

Bought by KGLT, KGOU, KCUR, and WKMS


  • Added: Jun 02, 2008
  • Length: 00:07:36
  • Licenses: 4
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Museumgoers contemplate what was going through the mind of Gilbert Stuart as he painted one of the most familiar portraits in the American economy ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 00:01:54
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A portrait of the ska legend.

Bought by KMHD and KNAU


  • Added: Oct 06, 2004
  • Length: 00:05:00
  • Licenses: 2
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An eclectic country musician describes how he sent Ralph Stanley to the Dairy Queen, and a few other tricks of a songwriter's trade.

Bought by KMHD, KNAU, East Village Radio, WVPE, WNCW and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:25
  • Licenses: 6
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One of the world's great operatic singers explores what it means to approach the human voice as an instrument -- like a trumpet or violin.

Bought by KGLT, Public Interactive, KMHD, KNAU, KPBS and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2004
  • Length: 00:04:11
  • Licenses: 7
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The 2007 MacArthur Fellow talks about the life of the Blues

Bought by Musicians' Radio, KMHD, WSHU, WFUV, WNCW and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:20
  • Licenses: 7

  • Added: Dec 03, 2004
  • Length: 00:01:45
  • Licenses: 2

  • Added: Dec 02, 2004
  • Length: 00:02:50
  • Licenses: 5
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A salsa hero teams up with a leader of Puerto Rico's plena revival.

Bought by KMHD and KNAU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 00:01:30
  • Licenses: 2
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Taking a traditional Puerto Rican beat from the cane fields to the age of cell phones ...

Bought by KMHD and KNAU


  • Added: Nov 11, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Licenses: 2
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A master testifies on the sacred steel guitar

Bought by KMHD, KNAU, WHQR, and Hawaii Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 4
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Sticking together as a family ... and as Junkies.

Bought by Public Interactive, KMHD, KNAU, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 22, 2004
  • Length: 00:04:23
  • Licenses: 4
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The first thing a songwriter needs is a good topic sentence. Or maybe not ...

Bought by KMHD, WNCW, and KNAU


  • Added: May 18, 2004
  • Length: 00:04:30
  • Licenses: 3
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A dinosaur nephew, El Greco, and blockbuster movies -- they're all in the mix for songwriter Dar Williams.

Bought by KMHD, KNAU, East Village Radio, and WNCW


  • Added: May 11, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:30
  • Licenses: 4
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Yo-Yo Ma describes how a 21st-century hotel key helps him create the right sound for a rustic piece called "Drunken Fisherman."

Bought by Public Interactive, KMHD, and KNAU


  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 00:01:45
  • Licenses: 3
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Have cello, will travel: Yo-Yo Ma describes how he works his way inside the "DNA" of musical styles from all over the world, and finds joy in "the...

Bought by KMHD, KNAU, WCVE, and WHQR


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:24
  • Licenses: 4
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Gillian Welch reconsiders the fate of a fallen American hero: Elvis Presley.

Bought by KGLT, KMHD, WNCW, and KNAU


  • Added: Mar 29, 2004
  • Length: 00:02:45
  • Licenses: 4
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A dynamic jazz singer demonstrates how she used to imitate Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan -- and why she put imitation behind her as she found h...

Bought by KMHD, WHQR, KNAU, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 00:03:52
  • Licenses: 4
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A rich-voiced bluesman rediscovered by the Music Maker Relief Foundation remembers what it was like performing during the '50s and '60s in the inf...

Bought by KMHD and KNAU


  • Added: Feb 24, 2004
  • Length: 00:06:18
  • Licenses: 2
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Vocalist Allan Harris describes his approach to the compositions of Duke Ellington's closest collaborator, Billy Strayhorn.

Bought by KMHD, WNCW, and KNAU


  • Added: Feb 17, 2004
  • Length: 00:04:51
  • Licenses: 3
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The Grammy-nominated vocalist talks about finding a place in jazz for funk, gospel, and pure joy.

Bought by WMPG, KMHD, KNAU, East Village Radio, WVPE and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 00:04:27
  • Licenses: 6
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Gillian Welch is known in Nashville for songs that echo the sounds of the Carter Family and the Stanley Brothers. But Welch isn't after nostalgia -...

Bought by KMHD, KNAU, East Village Radio, WVPE, WNPR and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2003
  • Length: 00:03:07
  • Licenses: 8
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Today's leading jazz violinist talks about the experience of playing Paganini's violin, and about her passion for Latin rhythms.

Bought by KMHD, KZYX, KNAU, East Village Radio, WVPE and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2003
  • Length: 00:02:46
  • Licenses: 7