PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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This program features a few of those overlooked musicians who simply didn’t venture very far from their own back yards, or hometowns.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
When Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein proposed a broadway production of Edna Farber’s novel, Show Boat, their friends advised against it. It was t...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Jazz musician Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton was a pioneer of the plunger mute trombone, a creator of vocal sounds from the instrument, and a perfect fit ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Two powerhouse saxophonists of early jazz are heard in this show: Benny Carter, alto and Coleman Hawkins, tenor.
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The melody may set the stage, but it’s frequently the lyrics we remember. This show is devoted to those handy wordsmiths, many of them forgotten.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
The first two decades of jazz witnessed a new dynamic for promotions. Musicians began gathering in the streets of New Orleans in an effort to outsh...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Chicago in the 1920s was a pivotal point for jazz. A number of changes were being incorporated into the music birthed in New Orleans, and the Austi...
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
This is a showpiece for today’s musicians performing music of the 1920s coupled with the original artists.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
This is a look at four inventive musicians who pioneered the early stages of jazz: Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Colman Hawkins and Frankie T...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
By the mid 1920s jazz was established as the primary popular music in America. But, the musicians were not satisfied with just being on top. They h...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Interfaith. What does it actually mean to have dozens, or even hundreds of different religions come together under one roof?
- Added: Aug 06, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
As Big Band Swing began to fade in popularity, the musicians of the 1920s saw their chance at reviving their music.
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- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Louis Metcalf was an inventive jazz cornet and trumpet artist best remembered for his short stint with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1927.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
He may not have been much of a musician, but Irving Mills was enough of an entrepreneur to understand the value of popular music. Jazz was its name.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 19:51
When Okey Records approached Louis Armstrong with the idea of forming his own studio band to bring hot jazz to the American public, Louis jumped at...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Memphis Tennessee became a musical Mecca in the 1920s, and Beale Street was its center. W.C. Handy was arguably the most influential composer sprea...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
The earliest jazz big bands had swing, yet they are not considered part of the “Swing Era.” Part of the reasoning behind that is simply the need to...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The all-star battery mates, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang met in high school. Both were violinist, but Eddie eventually switched to guitar. They became...
- Added: May 19, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The music of Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael performed by musicians in the 1920s to the 1990s.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Several pioneers of jazz made their way overseas to perform for a European audience that, in many cases, were far more receptive of their music tha...
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- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 21:01
- Purchases: 1
"The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything"
- Richard Feynman ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 3
Composer George Gershwin left behind a plethora of wonderful music during his brief career.
Bought by Radio New Zealand and KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
