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In these moments, we learn some cool facts about one of the best piano innovators of all time, NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 11
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A live show that you can view by looking at the video listed on the Full Description. You can also participate with the folks at the broadcast tab...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:56:58
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I couldn't tell you why I think 100k watts of chewing tin foil is appropriate radio but here's three hours of music you've never heard by musicians...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:32
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Jamie is visited by the Officer Duane Williams of the dreaded FCC police who is checking whether Jamie's sober to drunk listenership ratio is high ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:56:56
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Music that led to rock and roll from musicians that influenced the rock and roll legends. None of the hits but all of the originators. Collector...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:56
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Music from the 1950s - 70s "that you've never heard before by musicians you've never heard of..." although it sound familiar. Really familiar beca...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:27
Caption: Spock Listening To My Show
Lyrics referring to Mars with interstitials from Spock. If you like this, you'll need to move out of your parent's basement and leave the record s...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 02:59:36
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Music for the weekend after Mardi Gras - a celebration of Ash Weekend. Plenty of Louisiana swamp blues music for the geared-down mood. Then again...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:24
Caption: From Salt Lake City's premier restaurant critic (and a mean bassist), Ted Scheffler.   , Credit: Ted "Da Bob" Scheffler
Songs about outer space, satellites, rockets and hot rods with plenty of instrumentals you can "do it yourself" sing over. Even an example of Jami...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:43
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More music you've never heard by musicans you've never heard of. This week's special - 100% less mass-hypnotism!

  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:16
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The idea was boneheaded in conception and worse in execution. That's why I'm on Saturday at midnight - nobody listen except drunks and they don't ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:03:28
Caption: Frank Sinatra being interview during World War II, Credit: Wikipedia
Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Rod Serling, Credit: Wikipedia
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...

Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 5
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... because there's more to art than "hits" played over and over and over again.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:38
Caption: Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder is a recording engineer who loved jazz and is most notably associated with the sound of Blue Note Records. He recorded many legenda...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Known as "Nica" or "The Baroness" Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a jazz patron who supported artists such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, bo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
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In Duke Ellington's Eulogy to Billy Strayhorn he wrote, "His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others, but to himself." As we ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Typical French Quarter Door, Credit: Jamie Dell'Apa
An audio postcard mimicking the famous posters showing images of a city's famous doors.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Sep 14, 2010
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 2
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Rare archival interviews about the film industry that are perfect to run prior to this year's Academy Awards, but can be run anytime.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Feb 02, 2005
  • Length: 12:11
  • Purchases: 1