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Billie Holiday
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
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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
Great Jazz Cities: Philadelphia
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
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
JazzStories: Christian McBride
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:39
  • Purchases: 1
A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues
From: Steve Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: The Incredible Rahsaan Roland Kirk
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...

Bought by WRGY, KMUN, WNCU, KZYX, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Billie Holiday
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday has one of jazz's most bittersweet voices, and the biography to match.

Bought by WRGY, WNCU, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
FuseBox Radio Broadcast for Week of June 20, 2012
From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 03:00:36
Great Jazz Cities: Philadelphia
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Philadelphia all-star trumputer 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 South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WNCU, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Jack DeJohnette - PART 1 of 2.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette talks about his early career.

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2012
  • Length: 31:53
  • Purchases: 1
Lady E: Two Times A Child
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Lady E. aka
Lady E tells me that some nights when she’s finished singing and returns to her apartment and is having trouble with the zipper on her dress, she’l...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2011
  • Length: 56:36
A Conversation with Morris Robinson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Meet Morris Robinson, who was an All-American at The Citadel, started studying voice at the age of 30, and sings at the great opera houses througho...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 27:03
A Conversation about Duke Ellington and Washington, DC
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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A look at the Washington, DC roots of Duke Ellington and their impact on his development as a musician and composer.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 08:41
A Conversation with NEA Heritage Fellow Queen Ida
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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2009 National Heritage Fellow Queen Ida Guillory discusses the Zydeco tradition and how she became a part of the band!

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Awadagin Pratt (Role Model)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WUIS, Iowa Public Radio, WMUK, Wyoming Public Radio, WGUC and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 6
John Marshall Alexander Jr, (Johnny Ace) December 25, 1954
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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He was America's first rock star ... and we knew him as Johnny Ace

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
HOB Radio: Bill Wyman
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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An hour with Blues stalwart and former bass player for The Rolling Stones!

Bought by KEOS, WXXI, and WNCU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Lil' Hot Mama Flossie Turner Lewis
From: Kate Szrom
Caption: Flossie Turner Lewis, Credit: Kate Szrom
Vaudeville entertainer Flossie Turner Lewis reflects on her life, including working with the family act in the minstrel show circuit and finally g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI, WAMC, Public Radio Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 6
HOB Radio: Buckwheat Zydeco
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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The crème de la crème of shake-your-moneymaker Louisiana funk!

Bought by KREV-LP, KEOS, WRNC-LP, WNCU, and WXXI


  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
"Man In The Mirror: Reflecting On How Man Reflected On MJ"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 57:43
Creative Journalists Series - Steve Lopez, author of "The Soloist"
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Steve Lopez and Angela Elam at the Kansas City Public Library, Credit: Tyler Allen, U News
L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez became immortalized on the silver screen when Robert Downey, Jr., portrayed him in the 2009 movie THE SOLOIST, bas...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
HOB Radio: Al Bell & Stax Records
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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Former head of Stax Records returns to Memphis

Bought by KCSM, WNCU, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and KGLT


  • Added: Jan 04, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
HOB Radio: Cyril Neville
From: Ben Manilla
Series: House of Blues Radio Hour
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Brand New Blues with a Crescent City beat

Bought by KEOS, KKRN, and WNCU


  • Added: Oct 21, 2009
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
James Carroll Booker the Third: The Life, Music, and Mystique of the Bayou Maharajah Part 1
From: David Kunian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part 1 of 2 part radio documentary about the legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker

Bought by WUIS and WNCU


  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 56:29
  • Purchases: 2
Ed Bell's Sweetgum Bottom Blues
From: Tanya Ott
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Interview about a little-known, but influential Alabama bluesman

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1