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Caption: Jimmy Dorsey
This program takes us through the later 1920s to the ‘30s, with the clarinet of Jimmy Dorsey’s creativity to the influence of tenor saxophone of Co...

Bought by KCBX and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Louis Hayes, Credit: Janette Beckman
Drummer and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes talks about his long and distinguished career as a musician.

Bought by WDCB, KMUW, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Omer Simeon
As jazz evolved over its first decade, the clarinet was the primary wind-instrument. But, when the music reached Chicago, the saxophone, more speci...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The time has come! Our family needs a new car, and I’m ready to go electric. But, which one should I buy? Here to help me out is our founder and ...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Timothy Johnson
Director Timothy Johnson talks about bringing the brilliant work of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence to the stage.

Bought by WDCB, WSLR, RADIOLEX, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Warren, Rhode Island is one of the smallest towns in the smallest state — but when it comes to dealing with climate change, it has big plans. Locat...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: 1920s jazz band
Southern Hospitality: The term conjures up wonderful images. Primary on the list is it’s the birthplace of jazz. The program is devoted to the mus...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson
Chair Maria Rosario Jackson looks back at her first year leading the Arts Endowment and shares her ideas, plans, and initiatives for the year ahead.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WDCB, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Today’s question comes from one of our listeners. Dorothy wrote in to ask us: “Efforts to turn off lights for migrating birds are taking off acros...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 2
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Although Bix Beiderbecke’s career spanned less than a decade, his influence on future cornetists lasted generations. What is not surprising is the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Art historian, curator, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Dr Fleetwood discusses the profound significance of the art created by incarcerated people.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Spokane Public Radio, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Henry Allen
Two popular musicians who added to the legacy of jazz through their colorful musical personalities. Henry “Red” and Loring “Red” Nichols. Vastly di...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Last year, Kolya from our Possibly team I worked with the Providence Stormwater Innovation Center. Their job was to track flooding across the cit...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Raven Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Brad Onishi
The riot at the US Capitol in January 2021 was not a blip or an aberration. In the thinking of Dr. Bradley Onishi and others, it was the logical ou...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Alan Lightman, Credit: Courtesy of “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science”
Author and MIT physicist Alan Lightman explores the similarities between artistic and scientific impulses.

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
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As the decades of the 1920 began, so did a plethora of brand-new small label recording studios. They, indeed, grabbed the attention of jazz musicia...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Felicia Kornbluh
Some now refer to a post-Roe reality. What they’re saying is the battle for reproductive rights has shifted back to individual states. Déjà vu. Al...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jimmy McPartland
When Cornetist Jimmy McPartland was growing up in west side Chicago, He was constantly finding he was at odds with the law. He says, if it wasn’t f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kevin Wilson, Credit: Leigh Anne Crouch
Author of the NEA Big Read title Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of this outrageous (and outrageously fu...

Bought by KVNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Zutty Singleton
One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Allison Orr, Credit: Jonica Moore
Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks Allison Orr talks about the community-based dance company and its many collaborations.

Bought by WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 5