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Caption: Jazz icon Miles Davis
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
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A sound collage exploring the fringe world of plant consciousness and communication along with its peculiar relationship with music. At some point...

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  • Length: :00
Caption: One of the "Heroes of the Blues" featured on this episode. Illustration by R. Crumb.
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
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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
Caption: Hammond B3 organ legend Jimmy Smith ringin' in the holiday back in 1964
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
Caption: "Forward/Return" by The Album Leaf
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:17
Caption: The Album Leaf
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
Caption: King of the charts during the 1940s, Louis Jordan
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
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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
Caption: New Orleans' Preservation Hall Jazz Band. , Credit: Joe Crachiola
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
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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
Caption: Ernest Borgnine as "Marty"
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
Caption: Harbor on Silver Lake, Ocracoke Island, NC, Credit: Charles McGuigan
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
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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
Caption: A disc from the Savory Collection, Credit: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
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...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Jimmy Lee Harris. Photo by George Mitchell.
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
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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
Caption: Satchmo in 1960.
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...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, WNMU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Son House at the July 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Credit: John Rudoff, M.D.
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...

Bought by WNCU and WSLR


  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption:  "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.
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...

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Blues piano legend Leroy Carr, ready for the holidays
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
Caption: Jazz icon Thelonious Monk
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.

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KMUN, KZYX, KPVL and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Half a placenta being prepared for steaming, the first step in preparation, Credit: Jeff Emtman
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
Caption: The cover for "Blues Southside Chicago," issued only as an LP in the U.K.
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...

Bought by WNCU and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
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