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In another episode of Ways of Water, Radioactive's Connor Estes attended a design walk in Salt Lake City to see the proposed plans for the City Cre...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 08:31
"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 03:30
HOUR ONE: "Locked Up" - Most of us will never know what really happens behind bars. Prisons are generally off limits to the public and press. This ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Directed intensity from Buddy Rich sounds more like a lift than a jolt, but Horace Silver's loping tempo tells the truth. Mongo Santamaria's Afro-C...
Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 5
Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:52
Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:51
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
Goes2Eleven starts its run with a tribute to the jazz giant Joe Pass (1929-1994). We take a look at the guitarist’s early years in Johnstown, PA, h...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 54:06
Host, Richard Hadlock investigates performances by some of Jazz's greatest dramatic players while connecting their performances with that of the Gr...
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:55
Host, Richard Hadlock traces his formative years from 1945-1959 when he left Brazil at age 17 to go to College in Philadelphia. He reminisces his f...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 59:45
Piano players with "royal" nicknames are featured from Nat "King" Cole to Duke Ellington. Host, Richard Hadlock showcases musicians deserving of th...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 58:41
The San Francisco Bay Area Jazz scene is a special place known for its diversity and camaraderie among its musicians. Host, Richard Hadlock samples...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 01:01:51
Musical Instruments referred to by musicians as "Axes" are investigated. Often home made or manufactured there are hundreds of instruments. Host, R...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 02:02:36
Host, Richard Hadlock explores the players of yesteryear who showed immense talent as teenagers. Musicians, Jabbo Smith, Mary Lou Williams and Gene...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 59:43
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 30:49
- Purchases: 2
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 02:59
"The artists are the ones who make it possible for people to remember what the time was like, and who was there, and what we did as human beings. ...
Bought by WMOT, WHQR, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 4
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...
Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 16:32
- Purchases: 3
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 2
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUPR low power FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 4
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 2
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:40
3 Moments with tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman.
Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF and more
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 10
