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Early Jelly Roll

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

No one questions the fact that Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton was, in all likelihood, the first arranger of jazz. It’s also true that Jelly Roll was...

Added: May 04, 2012
Length: 58:58

Satchmo

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

There are three audible stages in the career of Louis Armstrong: The years prior to recording when he performed with Fate Marable, Oscar Celestin a...

Added: Apr 06, 2012
Length: 59:01

Johnny & Tiny

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Two legendary figures in early jazz: Johnny Dodds and Tiny Parham. They were at the center of the evolving new music of the 1920s, and contributed ...

Added: Mar 03, 2012
Length: 59:00

A Noble Cause

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Bandleader, vocalist, pianist and composer Noble Sissle began his career in 1915 when he joined ragtime-vaudevillian Eubie Blake. Together they wr...

Added: Feb 22, 2012
Length: 58:59

Sid & Josephine

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker were the most recognizable expatriates on the Parisian seen in the 1920s. If you've seen the movie "Midnight in P...

Added: Feb 02, 2012
Length: 58:59

Memphis Bound

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

With the closure of Storyville in New Orleans, many talented musicians landed in Memphis before making their way to Chicago and New York.

Added: Jan 18, 2012
Length: 58:59

Henry "Red" Allen

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

New Orleans musician who's work had a profound effect on the early development of jazz.

Added: Jan 05, 2012
Length: 58:59

Racial Innocence

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words

Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

Added: Jan 04, 2012
Length: 19:53

Crescent City Blues

From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues

Caption: Patrons at Young at Heart Club in New Orleans' Pigeontown neighborhood., Credit: Barry Yeoman

Crescent City Blues takes listeners to the hidden world of New Orleans corner joints—bars far from the French Quarter, in neighborhoods like Centra...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KCMJ Community Radio, Radio New Zealand, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Added: Sep 24, 2010
Length: 55:00
Purchases: 19

Whatchutalkin'bout?!

From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind

This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jul 06, 2010
Length: 18:08
Purchases: 1

Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana

From: Richard Ziglar
Series: Still Singing the Blues

Caption: Louisiana blues diva Carol Fran performs at her 76th birthday party., Credit: Photo by Barry Yeoman

Still Singing the Blues: New Orleans and South Louisiana features musicians in New Orleans and South Louisiana who continue to perform the blues—of...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMUW, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio and more

Added: May 11, 2010
Length: 55:00
Purchases: 25

Bandit Barriers Signal Gentrification in Oakland

From: Abbie Fentress Swanson

A story about how those thick Plexiglas walls come down in an Oakland, California neighborhood as more white folks move in.

Added: May 08, 2010
Length: 07:00

Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk

From: Open Source

Christopher Lydon is in conversation hour with Robin Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His superb biog...

Bought by KMUW, Prairie Public, KFOK-LPFM, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Apr 29, 2010
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 5

Michael Jackson- Remix

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

A tribute mix to the "King of Pop" who changed and shocked the world over his short fifty years in front of us all.

Added: Jun 26, 2009
Length: 28:23

Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs

From: The Kitchen Sisters

From The Kitchen Sisters and PRX, a Black History Month Special: "Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs," with host, Gol...

Bought by WDDE, 90.5 WESA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WHRV and more

Added: Jan 12, 2009
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 130

A 'Miracle' Review

From: Kristen Balagtas

Insight (no spoilers!) on Spike Lee's latest film, A Miracle at St. Anna

Added: Sep 26, 2008
Length: 02:58

Perceptions Shattered: African American Masculinity from Chicago Public Radio, PRX and the NBPC

From: WBEZ

Youth voices share their perspectives on Black masculinity.

Bought by WFAE, WEAA, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, WCPN and more

Added: Jul 23, 2008
Length: 52:33
Purchases: 19

Jump for Joy - Duke Ellington's Celebratory Musical

From: WFIU

Perfect for Black History Month (February), this one-hour special tells the story of Duke Ellington's musical "Jump for Joy"

Bought by WVIK, High Plains Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, KSUT, KCSM and more

Added: Dec 19, 2007
Length: 59:05
Purchases: 37

Thank God It's Friday-Dj King Assassin-Hip Hop/Rap/Mix

From: Craig Venegas

Hip Hop at it's best from the west coast to down south and the east!

Bought by KISU

Added: Nov 11, 2007
Length: 01:00:49
Purchases: 1

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah on "Cosmopolitanism" -- and psychologist Marc Hauser on "The Moral Mind."

From: Jenny Attiyeh

ThoughtCast speaks with Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about his new book, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" -- followe...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Jul 09, 2007
Length: 57:01
Purchases: 1

Nebraska's first Heisman Trophy winner honors another pioneer black Nebraska athlete.

From: Deborah Van Fleet

Johnny, "The Jet" Rodgers, Heisman '72, honors another pioneer Nebraska athlete, Marion Hudson, and talks about the importance of black communities...

Bought by WTIP and KRCC-FM