PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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As New Orleans musicians began to migrate north following the closure of Storyville (the red light district near the navy base), it was only natura...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Cladys "Jabbo" Smith is one of the finest exponents of early jazz trumpet, yet he is overshadowed by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and many oth...
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 2
Jody and Susie Edwards were apparently married on stage at the Standard Theatre, Philadelphia. They went on perform for several decades billing th...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Operatic tenor Everett McCorvey talks about how he was drawn into the music, how he helped build the opera program at University of Kentucky, and t...
Bought by WEKU
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 26:18
- Purchases: 1
His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 03:00
NEA Jazz Master Herbie Hancock discusses the popularity of his 1961 jazz classic, "Watermelon Man."
- Added: Mar 28, 2008
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 11
WETA's David Ginder interviews Ed Bradley
- Added: Nov 09, 2006
- Length: 07:43
- Purchases: 2
91-year-old Henry Belcher tells his friend Major A. Mason III about tap dancing in the 1930s.
- Added: Oct 10, 2006
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 2
