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Dancing Our Souls

From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship

episode 48: Dancing Our Souls Dance is central to Melanie’s life. She teaches 5Rhythms, which is a movement meditation and expressive practice wher...

NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more

Bay Area Beats: Zena

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats

Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...

JazzStories: Gretchen Parlato

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Vocalist and songwriter Gretchen Parlato's music is introspective and crafted with a knowing touch. Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocalis...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU

JazzStories: George Wein

From: Murray Street Productions

George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, has created countless festivals worldwide and can be connected to every important jazz musician ...

Bought by KMUW

JazzStories: Benny Golson

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"...This country lookin' guy was standing there in the door, waiting for me to tell him what to do. So I said, 'play something!' He took out his ...

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

JazzStories: Erica von Kleist

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“Essentially Ellington…really made me feel like I could be part of something bigger, musically. Meeting all these other young people from around th...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP

JazzStories: Gary Burton and Julian Lage

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix

Moments with Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

4 Moments with legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WICR, WART FM and more

JazzStories: Percy Heath

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

"There’s a certain thing on the bandstand that every now and then – not every night, not every composition – there comes a point when the collectiv...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and 90.5 WSNC

JazzStories: Henry Threadgill

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“You always have to have boundaries. If you don’t have boundaries, you don’t have art. There has to be controls and boundaries. Otherwise when does...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WNCU

JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM

JazzStories: Jason Moran

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

Caption: Jason Moran , Credit: Frank Stewart

Prolific pianist and composer Jason Moran fuses stride piano, avant-garde jazz and sampled sounds. Hear the 2010 MacArthur Fellow "a Texas computer...

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

Virtuoso Voices: Funders - Eugene Drucker (Classical Reasons)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders

For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Eugene Drucker talks about the reasons he loves classical music and asks your listeners to consider their ...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Menahem Pressler (Little Black Dots)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders

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, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHRV and more

Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Being Present)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.

After a performer learns the notes and digs deep to find out what’s at the heart of the music, he or she is ready to go on stage. But there’s one ...

Virtuoso Voices - Kristjan Jarvi (Part Peace)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.

Caption: Kristjan Järvi, Credit: Peter Rigaud

The music by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt* resonates with many people well beyond Estonia. Conductor Kristjan Järvi says the secret to his succ...

Virtuoso Voices - Till Fellner (Life Sentence)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

It's not unusual for performers to devote themselves to a short list of composers. Some have even taken a year off to only study and play one comp...

Virtuoso Voices - Robert Spano (Cliff Diving)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings has become the American anthem for peace and comfort during times of national sadness and loss. Barber also wro...

Bought by WETS

Virtuoso Voices - Vadim Repin (Hopeful Leader)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Tchaikovsky wrote his piano trio as a memorial tribute to a colleague, friend and mentor – Nicolay Rubinstein. In this musical memorial, violinist...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Up Close and Personal)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Joshua Bell has a CD – "At Home with Friends" – where he recaptures the musical get-togethers he hosts in his Manhattan home with friends...

Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (New York Love Affair)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Since leaving the New York Philharmonic in 2009, conductor Lorin Maazel has been as busy as ever, but never too busy to look back at his seven year...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM