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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
Caption: Pablo Garibay
This week’s edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Mozart, Marais, Satie, Arnaud Dumond, Ponce, Raimo Kangro, and Dusan Bogdanovic.

Bought by Ohm Radio , WPVM 103.7, WEKU, WUAL, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
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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
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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
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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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
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Anita Monga talks dark humanity, the first female animator, and when Sessue Hayakawa was arguably the sexiest actor in Hollywood.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 20:37
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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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...

Bought by WLPR , WNMU-FM, WLPR , and WDCB


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome guitarist and composer John Moulder, with an eight-piece ensemble presenting a stunning work titled, “Ear...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
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In the last decade of his life Art Blakey continued to mentor new talent in his Jazz Messengers group, helping to elevate musicians such as Wynton ...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
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Recordings that pianist Bill Evans made as a sideman and as a leader in the year following his bassist Scott La Faro’s death in an automobile accid...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
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Music of the Terre Haute, Indiana, big-band leader whose 1940s orchestra helped pave the way for cool jazz.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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An overview of the pianist and composer's career--one of the longest-running and most creative in the history of American jazz. We'll hear music fr...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In light of Ahmad Jamal's passing on April 16, 2023, we're highlighting the pianist’s frequently-overlooked late 1960s/early 70s stretch on the Imp...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00