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NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Jazz in the Beginning
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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MCPARTLAND’S MUSICAL EDUCATION CONTINUED AT LONDON’S GUIDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC WHERE SHE STUDIED CLASSICAL PIANO.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Jazz & Marriage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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IN 1943, MCPARTLAND MET CORNETIST JIMMY MCPARTLAND AT A USO CAMP IN BELGIUM. SHE WAS THE PIANIST AND HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE BAND THAT PLAYED FOR ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, KMUW and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Duke & Monk Visiting
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND AND HER TRIO PLAYED A LONG RUNNING GIG AT THE HICKORY HOUSE, A FAMOUS NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB. EVERYONE USED TO STOP ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods on his Teacher's Influence
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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SOME YOUNG MUSICIANS STUMBLE UPON A TEACHER WHO COMPLETELY CHANGES THE COURSE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS WAS ONE OF THE...

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


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 10
Sculpting Agent Orange's Legacy
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: A Vietnamese boy exposed to Agent Orange., Credit: Kirk Torregrossa
A Dartmouth student travels to Vietnam to document in sculpture the legacy of Agent Orange.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on her early influences
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, NEA JAZZ MASTER ABBEY LINCOLN HEARD HER PARENTS’ BEAUTIFUL VOICES SINGING AROUND THE HOUSE AND IN CHURCH. AT AGE FOURTEEN, HER ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 8
Art Box Extraordinaire
From: Chris Mortenson
Caption: Open House at the Art Box
The voices and sounds of the temporary "Studio Arts" building at the University of Iowa.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 18:46
When Silence Sings
From: Joanne Coombs
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tonie Flaathen has been profoundly deaf from birth. That doesn't stop her from absorbing and relishing the sounds that surround and 'sound' throug...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 1
He'll Always Get the Last Word In
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Paul DiMatteo is the last in a long line of gravestone carvers.

Bought by WDBM, WMPG, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 3
Opera Underage
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A look into the teenage world of opera, give it a try, it's cooler than you think!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott, an art teacher and glass sculptor, has had one bout of cancer after another for the past eight years. When her time comes Rolanda's ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott is a glass sculptor. But she also molds young minds as an art instructor. About eight years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 28:20
Fortissimo
From: Erin Calabria
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A renowned conductor with Parkinson's disease struggles to keep music in his life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
Continental Divide
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Crossing the BLVD, Credit: Judith Sloan, Warren Lehrer, Scott Johnson
Shekaiba Wakili's aunt was en route to New York, September 11, 2001, when her plane turned around and flew back to Peshawar, Pakistan. Shekaiba str...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: May 30, 2009
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb On Recording Porgy and Bess
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb lucked into recording Porgy and Bess.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb Remembering Making the Kind of Blue Album
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb remembers being in the amazing Miles Davis Band.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
Memories of Moog
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Robert Moog
On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hidden Histories: Lewis Hine
From: Jack Johnson
Series: Hidden Histories
Caption: Hidden Histories
From 1908 to 1917, Hine took thousands of pictures for the National Child Labor Committee, exposing the dangerous conditions that children endured ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Idea: How to Make Texas A Better Place
From: KUT
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A special report from KUT Austin and "Texas Monthly" based on May ideas issue. Ideas to change the world.

  • Added: May 08, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
Wilma Pang
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
Mixing Classics
From: Keliang Jiang
Series: Cultures of Modern Art
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When people feel classical music and electronic music should be segregated, they already doubt that contemporary music can be the classical music o...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2009
  • Length: 05:01
The Creative Village
From: Eddy Durnan
Caption: Moseley at twilight, Credit: Eddy Durnan
An insight into why Birmingham's Moseley area is becoming known as "the creative village".

  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Adult Play Time
From: Eve Abrams
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This short documentary (with music!) provides a window into the costuming tradition in New Orleans.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2009
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 2
Something Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Rich keeps doing graffiti, even though at age 34, he knows the consequences.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1

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