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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
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"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:39
  • Purchases: 1
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The University of Alabama was one of the last schools to integrate it's football team. in 1967, five African American men tried to change that.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 11:53
Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.
Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Art Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), Credit: Blue Note Records
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kind of Blue
As part of KUT’s Views and Brews series we engaged in a spirited discussion about Miles, his music, his relationships with his musicians, and the g...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:04
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Celebrating the life of Whitney Houston

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:43
  • Purchases: 1
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: Liz Peter takes her siblings swimming in Seattle., Credit: Chantal Anderson
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 49:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:35
Caption: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Roger Lewis at a jazz funeral in 2010., Credit: Kim Welsh
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we go in search of jazz's spiritual side—from the sacred roots of sax titan John Coltrane to the unique New Orle...

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


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Cubie Burke (with Christina Johnson with the Dance Theatre of Harlem), Credit: http://www.dancephotolibrary.com/dance.php
The "FIVE STAIRSTEPS and CUBIE" was a family pop act who released hit records from 1968 to 1969 on both Curtom and Buddha Records. CUBIE BURKE was ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2011
  • Length: 48:54
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Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sugar Pie de Santo, Credit: Chess Records
SUGAR PIE DE SANTO is a singer, dancer, band leader and song writer who is responsible for the hit with Etta James "In The Basement". She has recor...

  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 55:15
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
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In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Josh White Jr. , Credit: Silverwolf
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:27
Caption: The Five Stairsteps & Cubie (1969)
PART A (1st hour) of Volume #1 of the Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps. Joining Howard Burchette is Clarence Burke, Jr., Clarence Burke, Sr. and...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:04
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Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
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A new CD helps answer the question: where was Jimi Hendrix headed next?

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WCPN, KUCB, WTIP, KUT and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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Gospel legend Marie Knight died August 30, 2009, at the age of 89. She was best known as the singing partner of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In this sh...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 56:59
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A profile of a blues musician in Maine.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
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Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1