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Rosanne Cash: Live from Zone C
From: Joyride Media
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Intimate acoustic set by Rosanne Cash and her husband, John Leventhal in their living room (aka Zone C). Includes exclusive live recordings of son...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KOSU, NPR Illinois, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
JazzStories: Frank Foster
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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He said don’t have too many pregnant 19ths in there. Keep it simple…..Basie was as much as an arranger as any of the arrangers who actually wrote d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 6
Be Whatever You Want
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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On a hot summer afternoon three ten year old kids push around a soccer ball style sorbet maker and concoct elaborate stories to make their mundane ...

Bought by WTJU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 5
JazzStories: Jose James
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Jose James
“Music was unexpected. I always wanted to be a writer and I still do. I was always turned on by words, by the way people could use words and that k...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 5
Nine-Eleven: 10 Years After
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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This "newsical" program includes my notes, thoughts and interviews with visitors to Ground Zero in NYC on the morning after Osama bin Laden was ki...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 57:23
JazzStories: Ron Carter
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I was on my way to being a decent bass player, and at that time there were a lot of clubs in New York, a lot of recordings going on....talking to ...

Bought by KMUW, WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 8
JazzStories: Regina Carter
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"Well, growing up in Detroit I was exposed to a lot of different music, a lot of different cultures at a very young age without ever having to leav...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 6
JazzStories: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams - Monterey Jazz Fest., 1971, Credit: Paul Slaughter Photos
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 6
JazzStories: Nat Hentoff
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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Since the 1960s, writer and producer Nat Hentoff has confronted the question "Is jazz black music.' He discusses the issue in a 2008 conversation w...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 6
Colored Musicians Club
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
He Didn't Mean to Die
From: Sara Brooke Curtis
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An audio poem.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Sam Rivers – Reedman, pianist, composer
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Sam Rivers, Credit: Frank Stewart
Sam Rivers has sounded his horn across six decades of jazz with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Dizzy Gillespie. Producer David Goren brings us an i...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, WNCU, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 09:23
  • Purchases: 6
JazzStories: James Moody's Mood for Love
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: James Moody, Credit: Frank Stewart
"Moody's Mood for Love" is one of the most memorable and recognizable solos in jazz history. But for James Moody, the song contains a bigger history.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 08:15
  • Purchases: 8
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Hilary Hahn (All About You)
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 WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, KMXT, KRPS and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 12
Virtuoso Voices: Funders - Andre Watts (Classical is Constant)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
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For your Fundraising campaign, pianist Andre Watts talks about the constant presence classical music has in our lives thanks to Public Radio. Use t...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 5
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Emanuel Ax (Good Reason)
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 WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, WSKG, KUHF and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 8
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Sharon Isbin (You're in Touch)
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 WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, KUHF, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 23
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Un-Hosted Funders - Richard Stoltzman (Under the Table)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
For your On-Air Fundraising: Think of this as a mini-fundraising "time-out" (or drop-in) to insert a little bit of musical insight, radio-craft, an...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, and WMNR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 3
Transgender Equality with Mara Keisling and Marcus Waterbury: Part 3
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Mara Keisling from the National Center for Transgender Equality
This week on Culture Clique we continue our interview with two individuals from the national center for Transgender equality. Mara Kiesling is the...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 27:26
  • Purchases: 1
Home
From: Heather Strycharz
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A soundscape using elements of home and inspired by the idea of mindfulness.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Anna Netrebko (Not So Still of the Night)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Anna Netrebko, Credit: Annie Leibovitz
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has a recording of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. It’s not just a Russian themed disc – it’s more about m...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: :18
Phenology Plus
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Phenology Show
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This includes John Latimer's Phenology Report and Talk Backs. Plus Forest Ecologist Harry Hutchins talks with John Latimer about landscaping for wi...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:09
Virtuoso Voices™ - Anne Akiko Meters (Bitterweet Smile)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Anne Akiko Meyers
Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin was also a composer. His song, "Smile," is a standard and a favorite of balladeers…and violinists. The lyrics...

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: :25
I Live In Martin Luther King Plaza; What About You?
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A tour of Chicago's west side and one teenager's memories.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and WTIP


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Slow Down)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
You'll hear some of the most brilliant virtuosic flourishes about midway through Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra. They're almo...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: :24

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