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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring music from 1970s and 80s radio broadcasts of Bill Evans, Chet Baker and Art Blakey.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:02
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring music from the small groups within the larger orchestras of Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Glenn Mille...

Bought by WPTC and KREV-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sax legend Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
The legendary story of how a Kansas City kid who didn’t like to practice became the king of bebop.

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


  • Added: Nov 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring live broadcasts of the great bebop pianist Bud Powell in the prime of his career.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring music from drummer Chico Hamilton’s 1960s small groups.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring performers from the festival that year, including Randy Weston, Don Ellis, Cannonball Adderley, and...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring jazz from the Prohibition era and an interview with historian Michael McGerr.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the transitional late-1940s bebop-influenced big band music of Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Geral...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Perfect for the Fourth of July or other celebratory national holidays! “Freedom Jazz!” offers an hour-long, uniquely jazzy tribute to the spirit o...

Bought by KVLU and Northstate Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long program of classic jazz. It's a tribute to the pianist’s music, featuring recordings from Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd, Booker Ervin, Be...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring elegiac music for the Memorial Day holiday, featuring recordings from Duke Ellington, Marian McPartl...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring the 1960s music of pianist Chick Corea, both as a leader and as a sideman with Blue Mitchell, Stan G...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring the 1950s and 60s world-jazz music of bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:57
Caption: Duke Ellington and Django Reinhardt: their 1946 encounter at Carnegie Hall is just one of many rare excerpts we'll hear from the Savory collection on this edition of Night Lights. , Credit: William Gottlieb/Library of Congress
An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring rare radio broadcasts from the swing era.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Hour-long program of classic jazz featuring the 1950s and 60s music of saxophonist John Handy.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Perfect for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, or Veterans Day! An hour-long program of jazz and popular song... It was one of the greatest jazz o...

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, WAMC, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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An hour-long program of classic jazz for the week of Easter (and other major Christian holidays), featuring religious jazz recorded by Duke Ellingt...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WPTC, and KVLU


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the recordings of trumpeter Booker Little, who died at the age of 23 in 1961.

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the music of bassist Scott LaFaro and an interview about LaFaro with bassist and Indiana University...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:58
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the mid-1940s - early-1960s music of saxophonist Benny Carter, in big-band, vocalist, and small-gro...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:57
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the music and story of the premiere all-woman big band of the 1940s.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WPTC, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the early-period recordings of pianist Harold Mabern both as a leader and with Wes Montgomery, the ...

Bought by WPTC


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring the recordings of Mary Osborne, a pioneer for women jazz instrumentalists. Celebrate Women's Histo...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WPTC


  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring career-spanning performances of saxophonist and flutist James Moody, who passed away in December 20...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KVLU


  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating trumpeter Roy Eldridge.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01