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Andy features the best Jewish American music ever recorded! See if your favorites made the cut.

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
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When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:47
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A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 16:32
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In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
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Celebrate this Jewish holiday with songs of mystical, military, and marital themes.

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Dizzy Gillespie
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Clifford Brown
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
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A search for peace through October 11

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:03
Caption: Bob Marley , Credit: Dino Caderao
Locks, Dreads, or Jata (Hindi) is a kind of hairstyle that portrays different meaning and belief. In today's society, having dreads is something co...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Older, Middle and Younger generation guests discuss Marijuana...then, now and in the future

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 03:04
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Caption: Bud Powell
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
With the Dow at new highs, many indicators are positive, but this is a contrarian sign in the past. Beware and Money Matters tells you why.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Andy features songs w/themes of sadness & loss to courage & defiance.

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
Caption: Benny Goodman
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
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Caption: Shannon Selberg (Cows, Heroine Sheiks)
Shannon Selberg was the downright frightening frontman, vocalist, and part-time bugle player for eleven years for the legendary Minneapolis punk/n...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
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We time travel backwards to talk vinyl, old sounds and collecting records

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00