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From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

Caption: Host Al Jarreau and producer Jacquie Gales Webb, Credit: Jacquie Gales Webb

Jazz music is an indigenous American art form, but if you listen closely you will hear elements of Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Carribean...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, WFIU, WJCT and more

Hour 10: On the Road and In the Club

From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

Jazz singers tell it like it really is. Today's singers and yesterday's tell of their experiences, joys, trials and tribulations performing this mo...

Bought by KECG, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WPVM 103.7, WMPG and more

Hour 7: Scat, Bebop, Vocalese, and the Voice as an Instrument

From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

With comments from Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mark Murphy, and Kurt Elling, this program will trace the evolution of the in...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFIU, KZYX and more

Hour 3: Straight Out of the Church

From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

From early spirituals to gospel to blues to jazz, singing as an expression of deep emotion evolved, with the various strains blending into each oth...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, WFIU, WRTI, WMUH and more

Hour 2: Saturday Night Function

From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

Jazz was born amidst revelry and ribaldry. Jazz vocals have, from the beginning, dealt with the earthier side of life. Artists such as Dakota Stato...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, KSRQ, WFIU, WRTI and more

Hour 1: Steeped in the Blues

From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

Over the years the blues has influenced countless jazz vocalists. In the program, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams, Lou Rawls, Billie Holiday, Etta Jon...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, KSRQ, RadioStPete Florida, WFIU and more

Jazz Singers Generic 30 Second Promo

From: PRX
Series: Jazz Singers

This is 30 second promo for "Jazz Singers," a thirteen-hour series hosted by award-winning singer Al Jarreau. "Jazz Singers" illuminates every styl...

Bought by KECG, WPVM 103.7, WFIU, RadioStPete Florida, WMUH and more

How Did Beethoven Compose When He Was Deaf?

From: Colorado Public Radio
Series: Beethoven 250

Caption: Composer and multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Credit: James Callaghan/Courtesy of the Artist

Scottish multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie has been profoundly deaf since she was 12 years old. We asked her how someone who is deaf can "hear" wi...

Bought by WHRV

Jazz and the Visual Arts (Ep. 9)

From: Jeff Haas

Caption: "Out Chorus" by jazz painter Romare Bearden, 1979-1980.

You can't listen to a painting or see a song. But that doesn't mean there aren't really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS and more

if music be the love of food?

From: PhilipDavid Ellwand

Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

05 Lubliner Nign

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

At the Sabbath table on a Friday evening, the Khasidim of Eastern Europe sang tish nigunim, “table songs” praising God . . . seeking to get closer ...

04 Lustig Zayn

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

Sometimes, klezmer songs borrowed from popular folk melodies. “Lustig Zayn”, also known as “My Yofes” came from Polish peasants. But the more kle...

03 Simkes Hanefesh

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

This is a more spiritual tune. In 18th Century Poland, the Jewish mystic philosophy of Khasidism was born. The Khasidim believed that singing song...

02 Sofia's Song

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

In the audio drama “The Witches of Lublin,” Sofia is a teenaged girl in love – all that matters to her is that the object of her affection shares h...

01 Shtayn Gart's

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin

This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700...

SOUL TIME (Part B)

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots

This is a good mixture of music from the Sound of Philadelphia Soul to the funky James Brown sound, to the productions of Barry White and to the so...

Bought by KFCF FM, WUFT, KZYX, KPIP-LP, Prairie Public and more