PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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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.
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- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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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
Merle Knudson was a saxophonist with a distinctive sound who also acted to help young jazz players get going. Phil Nusbaum talks to Doug Haining an...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 05:00
To Sarah Porwoll-Lee, it isn’t only that she plays new music on the clarinet. When she talked with Phil Nusbaum, she revealed that she gets excited...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 07:57
Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Jon Pousette-Dart, founder of the rock group, the Pousette-Dart Band.
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- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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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
A soundtrack of U2's new album, Songs Of Innocence, and a few older favorites, serves as the undercurrent in this interview with The Edge and Adam ...
Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, WUFT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 07:02
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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
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
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Louis Metcalf was an inventive jazz cornet and trumpet artist best remembered for his short stint with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1927.
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- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 59:00
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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.
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- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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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
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This week we had the pleasure of talking with music legend, Smokey Robinson about his newest CD, Smokey & Friends.
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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Dana Lyons amazing and timely new album the Great Salish Sea
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:13
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.
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- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 58:59
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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
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
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Singer/songwriter Jason Isbell shares how he feels living sober.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:00
Stride piano emerged in the 1920s on the East Coast, and very quickly became a favorite thanks to performers like James P. Johnson and Fats Waller.
Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
