WDCB

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WDCB 90.9fm is a public radio station broadcasting with 5,000 watts to the Chicagoland area. You'll find us at 90.9fm 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and streaming live at WDCB.org. We're known for our eclectic music programming: jazz, blues, news, americana, and more! We also broadcast local news, features and useful information for residents of our community college district. We sponsor lots of musical events, either at the college's McAninch Arts Center or with other organizations in and around Chicago.

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Take an hour long journey exploring America's rich musical heritage without leaving the comfort of home. Join Greg Easterling as he features musical styles ranging from Blues to Bluegrass, Country to Americana, Folk to Roots Rock, and more.

  • From: WDCB
  • Updated: Oct 26, 2017
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Jazz Organic is a weekly radio stop for America's truest art form, as played on the tonewheel organ.

  • From: WDCB
  • Updated: Mar 29, 2019
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Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Patricia Barber hosts WDCB’s three-part series “MusicHeads,” recorded in the acoustically pristine PianoForte Studios in downtown Chicago. Each show explores a different musical theme and can be used as a 3 part series or as stand alone pieces. These FREE programs are suitable for airing any time of year, but would fit nicely into Women's History or Jazz Appreciation month programming.

  • From: WDCB
  • Updated: Apr 21, 2015
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276 Pieces

Notes from the Jazz Underground is where Jazz gets a little weirder, a little louder, and a little more on the edge.

  • From: WDCB
  • Updated: Dec 26, 2018
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30 Pieces

When Jazz Was King

  • From: WDCB
  • Updated: Feb 17, 2019

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Bandleader, pianist Bennie Moten and his Orchestra with that early Kansas city sound.

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
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this week, Notes from the Jazz Underground explores the Jazzy side of prog-rock with jams from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Rush, King Crimson, Umphre...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 2
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this week, we'll hear Jazz fused with hip-hop, the music of Johannesburg and the music of India, too. New jams from Theo Croker, Ryan Keberle and S...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 1
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this week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, Sonny Rollins stretches out, we'll take a listen to Jazz versions of a couple of epic Grateful Dead t...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 1
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On this edition of Notes from the Jazz Underground, new music from Chick Corea and Fabian Almazan, classics from the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Gi...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 57:40
  • Purchases: 1
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this week, we will get funky with Grant Green, Dr. Lonnie Smith and DJ Greyboy, we'll get jammy with Phish's Trey Anastasio, and we'll hear new, cu...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
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rock guitarists, avant-garde Jazz and music from Sesame Street all converge on this edition of Notes from the Jazz Underground.

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
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This week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, we pay tribute to the great Dr. John, who passed away on June 6th. His first four albums might be fou...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
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This week, we'll hear John Coltrane in the 60's, Ornette Coleman in the 80's, Steve Coleman in the 90's, and the latest from Linda May Han Oh, and ...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 1
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This time we hear Jabbo Smith with his own band . The Rhythm Aces. They only did 20 recordings Jan.-Aug. 1929. The band including Omer Simeon and I...

  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:03