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We sat down with Jazz singer extraordinaire Rondi Charleston on our last visit to New York City

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Music and comments that take your listeners into the heart of America.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Northstate Public Radio, KHNS, Moab Public Radio, KUCB and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 57:25
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Benny Goodman
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore, San Francisco, CA 3/8/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmakers Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore talk revolutionary medicine, natural childbirth, and the importance of just being nice.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 26:12
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We sat down with Germany's most successful artist to talk about the release of his first English language CD.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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We sat down and talked with John Fullbright in front of a LIVE audience at the 2012 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Art of the Song talks with Sarah Hickman LIVE in front of an audience at the Moab Folk Festival.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Matthew Quick, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matthew Quick talks living an examined life, being rejected over 70 times, and what it was like to get the phone call that changed his life.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:26
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One hour. One city block. Everybody's story.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 49:30
Caption: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Rabbi Neil Blumofe joins KUT host Rebecca McInroy along with a live jazz sextet for an evening of discussion and live music to explore the unique r...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Climbing PoeTree in the Making Contact studio, Credit: George Lavender
Alixa and Naima are two poets who together make up Climbing PoeTree, an award winning performance duo. Mixing poetry and politics they seek to use...

Bought by KVSC and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk is an original and unique voice in the shaping and the sound of American music. Both his compositions and his inimitable piano play...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:04
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The new single "Killing Me Slowly," lovingly dedicated to Paul Ryan.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
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Rodriguez was a music legend in South Africa, but it took 25 years for him to find out.

Bought by CBC Inside the Music, Prairie Public, KFOK-LP, WXXI, WORT and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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From the days of slavery 150 years ago, the African American spiritual grew out of the earliest days of Black America. Over time, spirituals sprea...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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An hour-long special featuring jazz music and spoken-word performances for the coming New Year from Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce, Slim Gaillard, Ken...

Bought by WPTC, WVAS, WJSU, KMUW, KPVL and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
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"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WNCU and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 15:31
  • Purchases: 2
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THE WAY -- Father and son team Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez talk faith, filmmaking, and taking it on the road.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 11:58
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Filmmaker Roko Belic on the serious science of happiness.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 22:44
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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 Northstate Public Radio, WVAS, KVLU, and Northstate Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sally Jenkins, Credit: Rebecca McInroy
Writer Sally Jenkins stopped by the KUT studios to talk about her development as a writer, her father’s influence, and her perspective on the writi...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 14:44
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This week on The Score, with Edmund Stone, Disasters.

Bought by WEKU and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Composer Martin O'Donnell
Renowned composer Martin O'Donnell reflects on his path from creating jingles for Flintstones vitamins to scoring blockbuster video games like "Hal...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
Caption: Geoff Marslett
Austin based filmmaker Geoff Marslett talks about his journey and vision as an artist.

  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 10:20