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Jazz isn't the only form of music that has great solos, but it wouldn't be what it is without 'em. This week we take a look at the art and craft of...
Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNCU, KSFR, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 24, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
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
In 1980, the good folks at Yazoo Records issued a box set of 36 trading cards called "The Heroes of the Blues," with drawings by legendary illustra...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Dec 23, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
A collection of children's choirs, inspirational music, and personal remembrances, mixed with Barack Obama speaking in Newtown, CT Sunday night.
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 57:33
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we get you in the spirit with an hour of some of the best—and off-the-beaten-path—holiday jazz.
Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KMUN, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 04:17
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:46
Join us as we count our way down through the biggest #1 R&B hits of the late 1940s. It was a period dominated by Blues shouters, wailing saxes, and...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Dec 16, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
A hundred years before Frank Kapra ever dreamed up a wonderful life, Charles Dickens had already penned the seminal Christmas classic. For the past...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 27:11
Jazz was born in New Orleans, right? Well it depends on who you ask. This week on the show, we get to the bottom of that question and tour the site...
Bought by WRGY, WNCU, WCAI / WNAN, KMUN, KPVL and more
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Join us as we take a look at yet another handful of iconic, world famous blues songs, and trace their roots back through time to their original ver...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
A classic year-end show that highlights the celebration of the holiday rather than the passing of any specific year. It's all about the going out, ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:41
Ocracoke Island North Carolina is like a republic unto itself, much like Key West, the Conch Republic. On the Scotch Bonnet Republic islanders have...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 24:36
Every drug we take is tested with crab blood. And it all started with a walk on a beach.
Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show, it's an hour of long lost finds from jazz's lost and found bin—from a recently discovered cache of forgotten 1930s radio br...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Join us as we explore the legendary field recordings of George Mitchell from the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley of southwestern Georgia and south...
Bought by WNCU
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 1
A new survey by one of the country's top media research firms sheds light on the holiday music we love to hate.
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 03:16
In this hour, it's a look at the life and music of Louis Armstrong with the good people of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Louis' form...
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Join us for a tribute to the life and extraordinary music of Son House. His recordings from 1930 and the early 1940s not only helped define the ver...
- Added: Nov 25, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Join us as we dust off some of our favorite Holiday-themed Blues and R&B Christmas classics. From Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King, and Sonny Boy Wi...
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
Thelonious Monk was one of the most original voices to emerge from the world of mid-century jazz. But it took decades for the world to realize it.
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
A first-hand account of preparing human placenta for a new mother's consumption. Discussion with a medical anthropologist studying human placentop...
- Added: Nov 11, 2012
- Length: 09:36
Join us as we profile some mid-1960s Chicago Blues classics. We'll be hearing selections from "Chicago/The Blues/Today!," rare LP-only tracks off o...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 01:58:59
- Purchases: 2
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...
Bought by WRGY, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
