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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

Labor Day Music Special - One Hour or Two Hours

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials

Two 1 hour music specials for Labor Day or Labor Day Weekend. Each hour is newscast compatible. Each hour stands alone and either hour can be chos...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF and more

A MEDITATION ON AMERICA Music Mix - Hour 3

From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs

Great for on or near the Fourth of July...or other patriotic holidays. Third of 4 music mix hours featuring a host of performers expressing the c...

Bought by KHNS, KXCV, WXXI Rochester, WHYY, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more

A MEDITATION ON AMERICA Music Mix - Hour 1

From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs

First of 4 music mix hours featuring a host of performers expressing the complicated feelings about life in America - in songs that both celebrate ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KHNS, KXCV, WXXI Rochester, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more

A Music Mix for America (Single Hour-Long Version)

From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs

A stand-alone hour of music curated by public radio music host Paul Ingles that celebrates the word AMERICA or AMERICAN or USA in every title. Thi...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio, KCNP, KSLU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more

The Song Says It All

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)

Workers across Texas have to fight to receive their wages and fair treatment. The Workers Defense Project Band gives their fight a soundtrack. Thi...

Bought by PRX Remix

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...

Jazz-O-Rama #33: "Open the Door, Richard!" Remastered Count Basie 78s

From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour

Cheek to Cheek, Rat Race, and Open the Door, Richard are among the tunes that will fill the air when the Count Basie 78 RM Records is heard on the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio

A Doo-wop Christmas!

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics

This is a one hour Christmas music show featuring classics from the 1950's and the 1960's. The program is divided into three sets to allow space fo...

Bought by KPIK-LP, WEZU, WJAB, WVAS, KRPS and more

A Story of the Black Soldier

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics

This is a music program honoring the history of the African American soldier through song. The program includes three individual sets, and includ...

Bought by WCVE, WEMU, WJAB, WJSU, WNMU-FM and more

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...