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First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 05:48:17
Broadcasting the music from a pop up music club located between your left and right ears.
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 05:48:39
In November of 1923, a Soviet composer named Arseny Avraamov stepped onto a Moscow rooftop clutching two oversized flags. His plan: to conduct an ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
Laughter is the best medicine. But, it feels that today's musicians may be taking themselves too seriously. Here are selections from the 1920s to t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Although he hailed from St. Louis, Charles Ellsworth “Pee Wee” Russell took his clarinet cues from New Orleans. Only now is he beginning to be reco...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Joe Bev hosts an hour of rare 78 RPM Jazz records of Helen Kane & Billy Costello, who were also cartoon voice actors.
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 55:16
- Purchases: 1
An East Yorkshire woman recalls her wartime wedding. Audio messages recorded on vinyl and mailed across war-torn Europe provide a snapshot of the e...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:11
This week’s program is a collaboration of two terrific NYC Slam establishments. The Anti-Slam and The Melting Pot. The studio will be filled to the...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 51:36
Songs about the hot dog and for some reason the interstitial sound clips were working well tonight.
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 02:54:26
I just had an epiphany. Why not title shows by date instead of my pithy descriptions of various elements of a show? Progress. We're making progr...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 02:56:14
A sound collage exploring the fringe world of plant consciousness and communication along with its peculiar relationship with music. At some point...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :00
We wanted to hear about Christmas from the under 5 demographic and this is what we got!
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 04:35
American icon Cole Porter learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin's harsh sound and so his ene...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
Remember Dick Powell the actor? How about Dick Powell the jazz banjo player? He’s just one of many obscure early jazz performers heard in this pro...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 58:55
Episode 1 of 'Sessions at the Cactus'. Roots rock legend, Alejandro Escovedo and indie folk duo, The Civil Wars take the stage at the Cactus.
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 59:01
The origin of his nickname is disputed. Regardless of the reasons, Francis Joseph Julian Spanier was simply known as Muggsy. Before Bix Beiderbeck...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
Harold Arlen wrote some of the greatest hits jazz and popular music, including the entire score to the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz. But there a...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 58:58
This is a glimpse at some of those talented bands of the 1920s and ‘30s who only recorded a few sides in their brief careers. There is some buried...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 58:54
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:16
- Purchases: 1
From 1775 to 2001, a look at 7 American wars through the eyes and mindsets of its eighteen-year-olds. Written and narrated by Tom McBride and Ron N...
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- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 14:22
- Purchases: 1
In 1922 composer Harry Warren created his first hit, "Rose of the Rio Grande," with lyrics by Edgar Leslie. From that successful launch came a prod...
- Added: Apr 12, 2012
- Length: 58:59
There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 59:01
“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 12:33
- Purchases: 1
