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Makalah gives some tips on how to beat the heat! For Boredom Prevention she tests your memory with some fun trivia!
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 04:15
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...
Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KPVL, WOUB, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN and more
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
By 1911, tailgate trombonist Kid Ory was leading one of the best-known bands in New Orleans. Eight years later he formed a successful band in Los A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The sounds of classic remastered 78 RPM records fill the air when the music of Fats Waller is presented on the 30th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Ram...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 58:27
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
"In the Mood", "Begin the Beguine" and "Stompin' At The Savoy" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 23th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 57:35
Bobby speaks with, writer and animator, Leesa Dean about her three fully developed animated series – Chilltown, The Danger Squad and Lele’s Ratchet...
- Added: Apr 07, 2013
- Length: 55:22
"Cherokee", "One O'clock Jump" and "Kansas City Farewell" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 20th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour.
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 57:31
"One O'Clock Jump", "Take the A Train" and "Perdido" are among the 78 RPM records heard on the 18th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour, selected...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 57:27
Art and Entertainment news that you want to know!!!
Interviews with authors, musicians, artists, poets, or maybe just the guy down the street!!!
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 58:01
The story of one woman’s rise from rags to riches … and back again.
Bought by KMUN, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR-FM, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 8
Marlon Wayans talks Hollywood, going off-script, and the serious business of comedy.
- Added: Jan 12, 2013
- Length: 12:32
In Baltimore, Joyce Scott, a venerated visual and performing artist talks with Cathy Byrd about the art scene in Baltimore, her hometown, and descr...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 12:25
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
Andrew White may very well be the most famous jazz legend... you've never heard of.
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 07:00
This episode we speak with scholar, Lisa Castillo, PhD. Her interest is Afro-Brazilian culture. More specifically, the African diaspora of Brazil. ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 28:01
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:24
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KSFR and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 14
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
One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...
Bought by KFAI, The Story, KUT, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 4
Wil Smith tells his daughter, Olivia, about being a single dad in college.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Winner of "Last Comic Standing", Alonzo Bodden talks.. Sex... Politics ... Religion .. and more in a funny 5. Listen and LAUGH!
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 04:42
18 year old Caribbean American, Rayon Wright, sets out to be a K-Pop producer.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 1
An hour of the lighter side of early jazz--presented by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev.)--from his personal 78rpm record collection.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:58
Its that time of the year again when Public radio takes a leap of faith to its core listeners and beyond to generate pledges and donations in order...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 02:57:19
