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Caption: Hawk Henries
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Hawk Henries (Nipmuc), a gifted flutist and flute maker.

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 14:36
Caption: Jack Gladstone
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet), a storysmith sharing his unique brand of music inspired by the stories...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 18:56
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Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WOUB, KZYX, WCMU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: NACAP student composers from Chinle High School work out their compositions with composer-in-resident Raven Chacon., Credit: Photo courtesy of Grand Canyon Music Fest
Interactive Media Specialist Eric Martin speaks with Raven Chacon (Navajo) an experimental musician, composer and educator.

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 13:28
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Word of Mouth is New Hampshire Public Radio's show about new ideas, emerging trends, and unexplored history. In this hour, "A New View" of Jane Au...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
Caption: Frank Zappa
His music was an amalgam of classical music, jazz, R&B, doowop, poetry and—sometimes—just plain noise. And Frank Zappa the man had even more to him...

Bought by WYSO, WRGY, KPVL, Prairie Public, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Valaida Snow
This one hour program highlights some of the greatest and obscure female jazz musicians of all time. These great ladies are masters of the harp, vi...

  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 56:08
Caption: Free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman
This week on the program, we dare to go where many jazz fans dare not tread as we explore 100 years of the jazz avant garde.

Bought by WRGY, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Israeli saxophonist and clarinetist Anat Cohen , Credit: Osnat Rom
Jazz may be an American-grown art form, but there are few places on the globe where the music hasn't found some sort of a home. This week, we go in...

Bought by WRGY, KPVL, KZYX, KMUN, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
Caption: Philadelphia trumpeter Clifford Brown
This week on The New Jazz Archive, we're continuing our ongoing tour of America's "Great Jazz Cities" with the stories and sounds of jazz in Philad...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Jazz icon Dave Brubeck
In this hour, we remember the great Dave Brubeck—from his roots growing up on a California ranch, to his smash hit 1959 recording "Time Out," to hi...

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, WVAS, KPVL, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Tin Pan Alley duo Rodgers and Hart
This week on the show, it's an hour with jazz's legendary songwriting teams—from Tin Pan Alley duo Rodgers and Hart, to Duke Ellington and Billy St...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: The godfather of gypsy jazz, Django Reinhardt
Say the name Django Reinhardt and most people will probably follow that with the words "gypsy jazz." But had you said the words "gypsy jazz" to Dja...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Jazz poet Langston Hughes
What do Langston Hughes, the 50's Beat writers, and jazz critics all have in common? They all like to write about jazz. This week we'll take a look...

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


  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: King of the Timbales, Tito Puente
Tito Puente is the undisputed king of Latin music in the hearts of most Americans. But beyond that public persona, he was also a prolific composer,...

Bought by WRGY, KCSM, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio, WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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If you like your rock and roll with a little country swagger, chances are you’re gonna love Ronnie Fauss. With a vocal quality not a little unlike,...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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The Tontons have taken over Houston's indie rock scene, but elsewhere they may well be described as one of the best kept secrets in Texas rock. Pro...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
Caption: St. Louis favorite son Miles Davis
In this hour, we continue our series on America's Great Jazz Cities with the forgotten history of jazz and the blues in St. Louis.

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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One of the last songs that Johnny Cash recorded before he died was calle, “There Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down).”

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:46
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November 23, 1936 was a good day for recorded music. Two men – an ocean apart – sat before a microphone and began to play.

Bought by The Story and WXAV 88.3FM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jazz all-star Art Blakey
It's almost taken for granted today that jazz grew out of African music. But when you get down to it, the connections that make up jazz's African h...

Bought by WRGY, KDRP Community Radio, KMUN, WNCU, KPVL and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
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Don Hodges studies music psychology. Here, he discusses one of his latests studies that gives us some insight into what our favorite song (and musi...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: American folklorist Alan Lomax
This week on the show, it's the life and legacy of American folklorist Alan Lomax and how his calling to "record the world" changed the course of t...

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN, KDRP Community Radio, KPVL, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13