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Caption: The Post-Atomic Trio, Credit: The Post-Atomic Trio
Jazz fans and artists value originality. And originality is the very thing that the Post-Atomic Trio hangs its collective hat on. The group’s drumm...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe casts a long shadow in bluegrass music. You can tell by the way his influence is felt in bluegrass music. It’s not only that others pla...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
Jazz Central Studios is a nonprofit organization supporting the Twin Cities jazz community. Its Fundraiser is Saturday April 30, and artists are co...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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This week we take you to Nashville for BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: stories about the blues, jazz, songwriting and a cabin in the woods.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We are accustomed to using names of music styles. You know, bluegrass, old time music, pop, jazz and on and on. And these styles get mixed together...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:55
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The history of humanity is told with a relationship to travel. The oxcart was an improvement over walking. Horses got you there faster, and then, t...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
Caption: jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
They do the old blues and a lot of new blues, too. Stephen Faison and the 3 O’Clock Gruv is a band of musical veterans hungry to make its mark with...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:50
Caption: Pattyh Peterson of Class Action, Credit: Jennifer Bong
They were inspired by Earth Wind and Fire but their blend of personalities made them much more than a cover band. The group was known as Class Acti...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Dean Magraw in demand by venues, and by other players. Why? It is because he is innovative and grounded in tradition. Dean’s innovations are the ki...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 09:23
Caption: Wee Willie Walker, Credit: Doug Knutson
Wee Willie Walker and We’r (We Are). Now this is one top flight blues band. The group plays the groove most people expect from a blues band, but wi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wee Willie Walker, Credit: Doug Knutson
Wee Willie Walker arrived in St Paul around 1960. Willie has had and has a long career in music, including singing Doo-wop, gospel music and down-h...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
You know how people say they’re jazzed about some things, including bluegrass. They mean they’re excited. Bluegrass and jazz are different idioms o...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 07:15
Caption: Switched at Birth, Credit: Tony Martini
The 2016 Winter Bluegrass Weekend, held March 4-6, 2016, heats it up no matter the temperature outside. It’s a celebration of everything bluegrass,...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Atlantis Quartet, Credit: Benny Moreno
Jazz is a tough world, and it takes perseverance. But sticking together has its rewards, and a case in point is the Atlantis Quartet, slowly but su...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:38
Caption: J.T. Bates, Credit: Andrea Canter
A mixture of the expected and unexpected. You could say that about all the music at the monthly Jazz at Studio Z series in St Paul. This Saturday i...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a change in music is an evolution or the result of someone’s great idea. For example, Bill Monroe’s bluegrass ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 07:19
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe’s blue grass music was more than one thing. He did many types of songs, and he showed an evolution in his playing and writing. Take his...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: the Sawtooth Bros, Credit: Scott Ward
The guys in the Sawtooth Brothers are twenty-somethings, but they’ve been at their music for over a decade. If you listen, you can tell the group’s...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:11
Caption: The Sawtooth Bros, Credit: Scott Ward
The Sawtooth Brothers started out as a teenaged bluegrass band playing traditional songs and tunes. But as the years rolled by, band members develo...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Blues tonality and the blues form come from African American people. The blues long been thought to have begun as field hollers and moans, and ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music has been a long time in the making. The sentimental songs the Carter Family sang and the rough and tumble lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: Ann Iijiima, Credit: Tim Vick
Jedfest is a fund-raiser for the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival. On January 23, members of the public pay $10 at the door, and the...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Jimmy Rodgers. He was the first singing star of old time music. Jimmie was a contemporary of the Carter Family. Like the Carter Family, in part of ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 06:10
Caption: The High 48s, Credit: Photo: Greg Johnson
Fresh from a busy Christmas season, the Minneapolis-based High 48s heats up January and February at the Aster Café in Minneapolis. It’s Aster brunc...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe is the Father of Bluegrass. But the most popular band in the history of bluegrass? Well, it could be Flatt and Scruggs. Lester Flatt an...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 07:30