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Reconnect with people ... onstage and in the audience! In a time when many Americans have become inordinately discouraged and increasingly disconne...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 08:06
Caption: Josephine Baker
All that was required to stand out among your peers in the entertainment business was style, charisma, stage presence, phrasing, and, oh yes, perso...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mayyadda, Credit: Osaro Obanor
Only recently did Mayyadda make the decision to perform professionally. But she’s come a long way in a short time, playing prestigious clubs such a...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 07:50
Caption: Paul Barbarin
As jazz began to dominate American popular music in the 1920s, drummers began to experiment with ways to incorporate more elaborate expressions int...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Noam Kimelman of  Fresh Corner Cafe
Detroit-based founder, Noam Kimelman of Fresh Corner Cafe Romy interviews Noam Kimelman on his venture Fresh Corner Cafe in Detroit. They also d...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 30:26
Caption: Dani Menken, San Francisco, CA 7/21/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dani Menkin talks specific goals, long odds, and the role of cake in destiny.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 14:11
Caption: L.M. Bogad
At one time, all of us have witnessed a protest that is also theatrical. Whether it’s a sit in for equal rights in the 1960s, or the Yes Men infilt...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Edythe Turnham Band
This program hones in on those two critical years 1923 and 24 when jazz began to transition from New Orleans to Chicago Style.

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ginny Fischbach
Ginny Fischbach of Impact100 on Impact Investing Inglenook Romy interviews founder of Impact 100 Oakland County (Michigan), Ginny Fischbach.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:18
Caption: Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
What do student jazz players do? They work had during the school year, and when summer comes, they work even harder playing in bands with their fri...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Canal St., New Orleans
This program visits with the early New Orleans musicians. After all, their creativity is what started jazz on the road to popularity.

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Actor and Director Joel Murray and Actor Curtis Armstrong dish with me on acting, directing, starting out, advice for young actors, what it means t...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:16
Caption: Fess Williams
America’s original musical creation, jazz, had quite a number of influences, but one of those, at least today, is ignored. You might say it was the...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong
The World on a String: During the peak of “The Jazz Age,” a handful of musicians captured the imagination of an adoring public.

Bought by KREV-LP and KCBX


  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Assemble Sound
Listen in as Romy interviews Garret Koehler about newly launched Assemble Sound in Detroit. Garret and his founder team share how they began to cat...

  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 35:38
Caption: Stompin'
The evolution of "The Stomp" goes back several hundred years,but when jazz began incorporating the phrase into the music, it took on a completely d...

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  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of The Live Feed KQAL’s Mohammed El-Rous talks with Minneapolis-based jam band Space Monster about their musical inspirations, jour...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 35:10
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What do Blair Tindall, author of the book, Mozart in the Jungle, which inspired the Amazon original series of the same name, and Dr. Travis Stork c...

  • Added: May 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:12
Caption: Bud Freeman
Although jazz bands were performing swing long before the “Swing Era” officially started, you don’t want to tell the musicians before that time tha...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marcus Wise with tabla, Credit: Jan Wise
The local tabla player Marcus Wise looks for opportunities to work with San Francisco sarod player Bruce Hamm. This weekend the two play two concer...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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NBC's Alex Meneses and ABC's Wynn Everett talk working and motherhood in Hollywood over delicious dishes at the Sunset Marquis on The Dinner Party ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:31
Caption: Jule Styne, Credit: child prodigy
This is a tribute to those creative poets who wrote the memorable lyrics to so many wonderful songs in the 1920s.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KCMJ Community Radio, WNIN, KREV-LP, WEZU and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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The record-breaking, six-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald talks to Michael about her failed auditions, letting go of her idea of perf...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 55:25
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In Russell Simmons own words, we’ve got an ‘esoteric rap going on’ and we get into ‘some far-out sh*t’ on this episode of "The Dinner Party with El...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 36:42