All Pieces for Guy Rathbun
Jazz didn’t emerge from a vacuum. It was an amalgamation of several musical forms including blues, skiffle, the call and response, vaudeville, and ...
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- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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Some of America’s most corrupt politicians can be found in the state of Maine. According to a Gallup Poll last year, citizens rate their legislator...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 28:59
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This is a look at four inventive musicians who pioneered the early stages of jazz: Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Colman Hawkins and Frankie T...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 28:59
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By the mid 1920s jazz was established as the primary popular music in America. But, the musicians were not satisfied with just being on top. They h...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 59:01
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Interfaith. What does it actually mean to have dozens, or even hundreds of different religions come together under one roof?
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 28:59
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As Big Band Swing began to fade in popularity, the musicians of the 1920s saw their chance at reviving their music.
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- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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During the early years of jazz, vocalists had to experiment with the best way to compliment musicians that specialized in improvisation and counter...
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- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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In the sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the...
- Added: Jul 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Before the 1920s it was almost unheard of for female vocalists to record popular music. That is unless they were singing a number from their Broadw...
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- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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When you’re given instructions that you feel are morally wrong, do you speak up? A number of studies over the past 50-years conclude that the major...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Louis Metcalf was an inventive jazz cornet and trumpet artist best remembered for his short stint with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1927.
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- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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By 1930 Irving Mills had the world on a string. His music publishing business was booming, and he began to expand his control over his musicians.
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- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 59:01
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Fifteen years ago, Aspen Baker founded her support group Exhale. Its purpose is to open up respective dialogue and provide support for those who ch...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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He may not have been much of a musician, but Irving Mills was enough of an entrepreneur to understand the value of popular music. Jazz was its name.
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- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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Sleepers: Those wonderfully talented band of the last 1920s who were kept in the dark. Somehow, despite their inventiveness, they never reached a l...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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When Okey Records approached Louis Armstrong with the idea of forming his own studio band to bring hot jazz to the American public, Louis jumped at...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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