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Jennifer Abraham-Cramer helps us understand the great Mississippi flood of 1927, using stories from survivors preserved by oral historians.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Incredible Rahsaan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

Bought by WNCU, KBGA 89.9 FM, Radio New Zealand, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
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Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by WNCU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Radio New Zealand, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Philadelphia trumpeter Clifford Brown
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we're continuing our ongoing tour of America's "Great Jazz Cities" with the stories and sounds of jazz in Philad...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRGY, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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Mix? What mix? Oh, that mix!

Bought by KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB, KEOS and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Martin Zellar and Nick Ciola
Martin Zellar was the frontman of The Gear Daddies, a late 80's/early 90's Minneapolis based band with whose members formed bonds while living a c...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Oscar Forsman is a elementary school music teacher from DeKalb, Illinois. Oscar has strong ties to his Finnish American roots on Minnesota's Iron ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 17:27
Caption: The "greatest drummer in the world," Buddy Rich
Jazz drummers have gotta be some of the most unheralded of jazz's many unsung heroes. This week we dissect their art and craft with world-renowned ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Troy Public Radio, WRGY, WNCU, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend during summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 10:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Steve Downing
Steve Downing recently attended the inaugural reading and crowning of Deborah Cooper as Duluth's fourth Poet Laureate. Steve recounts a brief histo...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
Caption: Cesar Chavez
Professor Matt Garcia has written the most comprehensive history ever of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "North Country: The Making of Minnesota" by Mary Lethert Wingerd
For a lot of us the history of Minnesota begins at the time of statehood in 1858, and is a history of progress from then to the present. Historia...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 16:12
Caption: The Incredible Rahsaan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, KMUN, WNCU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Philadelphia all-star trumputer Clifford Brown
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we're continuing our ongoing tour of America's "Great Jazz Cities" with the stories and sounds of jazz in Philad...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WNCU, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: The "Greatest Drummer in the World," Buddy Rich.
Jazz drummers have gotta be some of the most unheralded of jazz's many unsung heroes. This week we dissect their art and craft with world-renowned ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WNCU, KZYX, KPVL, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Imagine growing up in a family business that was founded upon your grandmother's horseradish sauce? Domonic Biggi can. He recounts that his grand...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 24:19
Caption: Sean Hill
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette talks about his early career.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2012
  • Length: 31:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and cult...

Bought by KUOW, WUAL, Spokane Public Radio, WMUK, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 9
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
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Opera America President Marc Scorca celebrates opera in America and the 2011 NEA Opera Honorees.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 31:03