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This week we pay tribute to the late, great Robbie Robertson. Robbie did his homework and listened to the greats, then absorbed those influences a...
- Added: Aug 27, 2023
- Length: 58:59
Exploring the emergence of a kinetic jazz scene in 1920s Indiana, with commentary from historian James Madison and others.
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Jazz theorist George Russell and the young trombonist David Baker formed a progressive-bop group at the beginning of the 1960s so modern that it wa...
- Added: Aug 13, 2023
- Length: 59:01
This airing of Folk Salad continues the Play Tulsa Music theme. This will be Part II of play Tulsa music. We shine the light on many of our great...
- Added: Aug 08, 2023
- Length: 58:59
Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Hank Mobley were two leading exemplars of the 1950s and '60s hardbop sound and recorded together on a number ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Carl Friedrich Abel performed on and wrote for the viola da gamba in a time when its popularity was declining. This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore...
- Added: Jul 28, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Live recordings made at the nightclub in Hermosa Beach, California, featuring Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, and others.
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This airing of Folk Salad is a celebration of Tulsa Music. July has been declared by our mayor as play Tulsa music month, and to support that decl...
- Added: Jul 26, 2023
- Length: 58:59
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Mozart, Marais, Satie, Arnaud Dumond, Ponce, Raimo Kangro, and Dusan Bogdanovic.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 58
In 1971, Columbia Records signed four of modern jazz's greatest artists. Within two years all four were gone. What happened?
- Added: Jul 23, 2023
- Length: 59:01
This airing of Folk Salad is all about Woodyfest an annual celebration of the life of Woody Guthrie. We play songs from the man himself and those ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 58:58
Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
This airing of Folk Salad has us visiting the Americana Charts ie. Joshua Ray Walker, Rodney Crowell, Turnpike Troubadours and more, and as always ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2023
- Length: 58:58
In the years following World War II, Black American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon, Kenny Clarke, and Bud Powell took up residence in France,...
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi joins us to discuss a vital and often-overlooked period of the trumpeter’s career.
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Folk Salad embraces summer with summer themed songs or at least songs that make us think of summer. Pour yourself a lemonade and tune in to hear s...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 58:58
Folk Salad celebrates Juneteenth with songs from Black artists singing songs of freedom, justice, and a lack of justice. You will hear from Fanny L...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 58:58
This edition of Folk Salad celebrates national Walking Month by playing some "Walking Songs." We have Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline, Georgia White and m...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 58:57
Night Lights celebrates America’s Independence Day with music from James Reese Europe, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and other c...
- Added: Jun 25, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Ellington kept his orchestra together in a changing economic landscape, continuing to create memorable music and expanding his compositional horizons.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Nat King Cole’s short-lived 1956-57 variety show was canceled for lack of advertisers, but it made an invaluable cultural contribution and blazed a...
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 58:58
Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome the Metropolitan Jazz Octet with vocalist Dee Alexander (and a string section!) to honor the 108th birthd...
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 4
Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
