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A conversation from three folks on the rituals they've created to mark the first of the year.
- Added: Dec 26, 2011
- Length: 00:03:28
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we say goodbye to 2011 and hello to 2012 with a look back at some of our favorite interviews and music from the ...
Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station, KPVL, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Sep 18, 2011
- Length: 00:59:54
- Purchases: 1
This is the story of THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS from an original member Dennis Burke. He tells her story and discusses her life in a rare interview.
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 00:52:41
This is the story of THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS from the only female member of the group. ALOHA BURKE who now goes by RAMI is the only sister of this famo...
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 00:54:31
Sugar Pie de Santo is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 00:55:18
Insightful review of the life of legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson and his enduring musical legacy. Includes 20 of his legendary recordings...
Bought by CBC Inside the Music, Northstate Public Radio, KFOK-LP, WXXI, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 19
Checker was a subsidiary label started by Phil and Leonard Chess in April of 1952. Almost immediately, the label became home to harmonica giant Lit...
Bought by WUCF
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
If you’ve lived in your hometown your whole life, planning a way to get out of town once in awhile is essential to sanity and happiness. For Ada, t...
- Added: Apr 17, 2011
- Length: 00:04:05
Join us as we take a look at some of the fine piano players who worked and recorded in Chicago over the years -- from Curtis Jones, Roosevelt Sykes...
Bought by WUCF
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
PART A (1st hour) of Volume #1 of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. and...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 00:59:04
PART TWO(2nd hour) of Volume ONE of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. a...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 00:56:57
PART THREE (3rd hour) of Volume ONE of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr...
- Added: Mar 24, 2011
- Length: 00:56:13
Daphne Willis is a has a unique voice and song writing skills that draw you to listen in, and keep listening for more. Daphne is described as being...
Bought by KAXE
- Added: Dec 30, 2010
- Length: 00:39:16
- Purchases: 1
ATMI Reporter Ishmael Streever with a commentary about his experience during the 2010 Third Coast International Audio Festival.
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 00:03:10
The Road to Rehabilitation is littered with good intentions and foreclosures. Host Audra Wilson discovers that many Americans were literally addic...
- Added: Oct 10, 2010
- Length: 00:09:52
In their comedy skit "Nice White Lady," the ever edgy Mad TV pokes fun at movies like Stand and Deliver, Freedom Writers, and Dangerous Minds, in w...
- Added: Jun 15, 2010
- Length: 00:07:43
From Robin Amer
You might say that Malort is Chicago's signature drink. Which would be fine, if it weren't so disgusting. For the uninitiated, here is the story of...
- Added: Jun 15, 2010
- Length: 00:10:05
- Purchases: 2
Four members of Chicago's all female tackle football team describe what it’s like to be a woman in a man’s game.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 15, 2010
- Length: 00:20:16
- Purchases: 1
An hourlong program of classic jazz, featuring jazz recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s by lesser-known Chicago jazz artists such as the...
- Added: May 11, 2010
- Length: 00:59:01
When you think of the first of May, consider how many hours you typically work in a day. That would be 8. But what seems so commonplace as to hard...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring the hardbop scene of Chicago in the 1950s and early 60s.
Bought by Northstate Public Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 1
From The Jackson Five to Labelle. From Quincy Jones to The Soulful Strings. From Jr. Walker & The All-stars to Etta James.
This should tell you wh...
- Added: Jan 21, 2010
- Length: 00:59:32
A martial arts school in Chicago’s South Side reinforces community in a violent neighborhood.
Bought by Vocalo.org
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 00:05:30
- Purchases: 1
My uncle - Chicago's Santa Claus - finds inspiration in the memory of his father; Santa Claus.
- Added: Nov 28, 2009
- Length: 00:09:00
- Purchases: 4
