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In The Rock House follows the band Zombie Crash, and explores the learning disable music scene in the UK.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:29
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Bobby speaks with Aliah Rosenthal about life growing up on the mean streets of the East Village, an area once generally considered to be the epicen...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:06:57
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, EDDIE PALMIERI. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, LORRAINE GORDON. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
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Three short "Moments" featuring alto saxophonist and 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Lou Donaldson. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Siriu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Mose Allison. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about M...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Flip Scipio and wife Mitzi Pratt, in their Martha's Vineyard studio., Credit: Emma de Campo
Flip Scipio has been described as a “guitar repairer to the gods.” And with customers including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, it's a...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
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"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:40
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He wasn’t political about it. He didn’t particularly talk about politics and stuff. He did it his own way. He didn’t have to talk about that. All h...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 11:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Erica von Kleist
“Essentially Ellington…really made me feel like I could be part of something bigger, musically. Meeting all these other young people from around th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:37
Caption: "Whispers" Tendrilic wires > Reaching for infinity > Connect me to you, Credit: Eric Bishop 2012
In celebration of National Poetry Month, 12 poets are featured with their original works. Stori Sojourner stitches the poems together to create the...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
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"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by WNCU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 2
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"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:41
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3 Moments with tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman.

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jim Riggs at the Organ, Credit: jake warga
A portrait of the Mighty Wurlitzer organ in Seattle's Paramount theatre--one of the last three remaining organs of its kind to reside in its origin...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUT


  • Added: Feb 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
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"You’ve got this reservoir of ideas are roaming around in your brain and you want to put them down on paper and pass those out to the trumpet playe...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 1
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“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wynton Marsalis
"For me I always grew up watching my father and other jazz musicians, they never played for that many people, they were always struggling. They did...

Bought by WCSU-FM, Public Radio Remix, and WEKU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 18:54
  • Purchases: 3
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He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote d...

Bought by WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jose James
“Music was unexpected. I always wanted to be a writer and I still do. I was always turned on by words, by the way people could use words and that k...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Four Jazz Moments featuring flutist and 2011 NEA Jazz Master, Hubert Laws.

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jul 19, 2011
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
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"I was on my way to being a decent bass player, and at that time there were a lot of clubs in New York, a lot of recordings going on....talking to ...

Bought by WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU, and KFOK-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KFOK-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Bobby McFerrin has spent four decades breaking ground in jazz vocals – and his music always feels fresh. Hear how Miles Davis changed his life.

Bought by WCSU-FM, WNCU, KFOK-LP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 4