PRX - Pieces for Tagging: African-American History
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An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...
- Added: Jan 22, 2011
- Length: 00:58:58
- Purchases: 5
An hour-long 90th-birthday tribute to Duke Ellington’s longtime writing partner, featuring interpretations of his music by John Coltrane, the Dutch...
Bought by WPTC
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 1
An hourlong program of classic jazz. Gerald Wilson's big bands of the 1940s and the 1960s were each modern, progressive orchestras that showcased W...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring a collection of influential jazz material know as "The Birth of the Cool" recorded by a circle of mu...
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter was an especially prolific composer in the 1960s, writing and recor...
- Added: Mar 09, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...
- Added: Mar 09, 2010
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 3
From the 1940s to the 1990s, several jazz composers undertook several large-scale orchestral compositions that portrayed the journey of black peopl...
Bought by WUCF, Kansas Public Radio, Northstate Public Radio, WVAS, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Jan 05, 2010
- Length: 00:58:58
- Purchases: 6
The docu-drama LITTLE ROCK, by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj. is the untold individual stories of the "Little Rock Nine." It is an intimate story about t...
- Added: Dec 01, 2009
- Length: 01:28:41
