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From: David Schulman

An unsung hero of the jazz bass describes how he learned to tailor his sound to singers like Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald. Includes Betts's...

Bought by KGLT, KNAU, and WETA

David Byrne ENCORE: In his own words

From: David Schulman

Almost classical. Almost ...

Bought by KMHD, WYSO, WNCW, KNAU, and KUT

David Byrne: In his own words ... on 'Grown Backwards'

From: David Schulman

Opera singer -- qu'est-ce que c'est?

Bought by Public Interactive, KMHD, WNCW, and KNAU

Nobody Swung Harder: The Jazz Violin of Stuff Smith

From: David Schulman

Caption: Stuff Smith and friends, Credit: family photo

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the most important American jazz violinist of the 20th Century. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald. Oscar Pet...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

Remembering poet John Ashbery

From: David Schulman

The late poet John Ashbery, who died September 3, 2017, remembers his youth as a radio star. And he describes his love for American vernacular spee...

The Voice of the Casals Cello

From: David Schulman

Time machine? Try this cello: The stories swirling around Pablo Casals's instrument — now almost 300 years old — are full of time-warp coincidence,...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WFSU, KENW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

The street vibes of Preyas Roy

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Caption: Preyas Roy performs at the corner of Michigan and Randolph, in downtown Chicago

Preyas Roy has performed in famous venues like the Jazz Showcase. But he makes his living on a downtown Chicago street corner — despite the unwield...

Chris Foreman at the Green Mill

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Caption: Chris Foreman at the Hammond B3

Chris Foreman plays Sundays in Church. And every Friday night, he's at Chicago's legendary Green Mill — playing the funky Hammond B3 organ in a nig...

Olivia Block: Sounds of the City

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Caption: Olivia Block records a sound sculpture by Harry Bertoia in Chicago.

Olivia Block's compositions have been praised by the likes of The New York Times. But she really loves sounds that don’t often count as music — the...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., PRX Remix, and WUNC

Olivia Block: the room I was in

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Caption: Olivia Block gathering audio in Chicago

The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix

"To Save California, Read Dune." With Andrew Leonard

From: David Schulman
Series: NAUTILUS podcast from PRX

Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas

The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...

Bought by PRX Remix

2014 Most Licensed Producer by PRX Remix Acceptance Speech

From: David Schulman

David Schulman was named the Most Licensed Producer by PRX Remix in the 2014 Zeitfunk Awards. Here is David's acceptance speech, in which he annou...

George Clinton, AKA Dr. Funkenstein, in his own words

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Caption: Mysterious detail from the funk-cloning electron microgramatoscope, Credit: Dr. Schulmanstein

If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk. Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...

Jerry Douglas: In his own words

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

He's a dobro player, folks. Who said anything about Jimi Hendrix?

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, KMHD, WCMU Michigan, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more

Edmar Castaneda in his own words

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

The harpist talks about how he takes an instrument beloved of Colombian cowboys, and forged a place for it in American jazz.

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix

700 Fathoms under the Sea

From: David Schulman

Caption: Scientists discovered the "sound channel" in 1944. Whales use it to communicate across oceans — and during the Cold War the Navy secretly used it to track nuclear subs. This 1948 graphic shows sound traveling on an axis 700 fathoms down in the Atlantic., Credit: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel

Something unusual happens about a half mile under the sea. Ocean physics create a special zone where sound travels for hundreds, even thousands of ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, American Voices, Hark!, KFAI Minneapolis and more

The Elusive Digital Stradivarius

From: David Schulman

Caption: Data from 12 different locations let violinmaker Joseph Curtin digitize a violin's sonic fingerprint., Credit: David Schulman

The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more

Kathleen Hanna: from Bikini Kill to Le Tigre

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna remembers the DIY feminist punk scene she catalyzed in 1992 with Bikini Kill. (The band's first EP was re-releas...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WORT, KVNF, KFAI Minneapolis, WABE and more

Del McCoury in his own words

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

Bluegrass veteran Del McCoury talks about the choreography of playing bluegrass — in front of just one or two mics.

Bought by PRX Remix

Hilary Hahn in her own words ... on improvisation

From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words

One of the world's elite concert violinists talks about improvising with Hauschka, who plays a piano doctored with duct tape and ping-pong balls. ...

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