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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
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 16:46
- Purchases: 1
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 11:22
The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- 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
A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place 50 years ago this August with new mixes featuring Israe...
Bought by KVMR and Moab Public Radio
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 58:43
- Purchases: 2
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
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
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 02:21
They were known as the big band of the 1920s who sounded a little “country.” Not because they were from Nashville, nor did they have a twang in th...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
He was a master ”Tickler”. Stride piano is the term attached later to a specific rhythmic style where the left hand follows the pattern of the rig...
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 58:54
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
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
Shining shoes to music publishing in a few short years. To Clarence Williams it may have seen much longer. By 1910, he was considered a leading s...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 58:57
Here is one of the overlooked jazz pianists who, if he's lived beyond his 30-years, would rank with Early Hines and Count Basie. Very little is kn...
- Added: Jun 09, 2012
- Length: 01:01:02
The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:13
