PRX - Pieces for Tone: Esoteric

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Thirty years after "Purple Rain," African musicians reimagined the 1984 film with local music and flair. Titled “Rain the Color Blue with a Little ...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:43
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The impeccable British jazz critic/writer/musician Leonard Feather assembles a studio of all-stars to open this program, followed by funky guitar b...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 8
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In 1996, Nick Gold, a British music producer, asked the American guitarist Ry Cooder to come to Havana and help him record a few sessions with some...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
Caption: Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski, 1981, Credit: Irena Jarosi?ska / PAP
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, WETS, KHSU and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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We’ve got another eclectic combination of styles and moods his session. Pure Paul Desmond begins with his dry martini sax sound, Lizz Wright contri...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Back to our old tricks, unintentionally nothing from the new millennium even made the cut this day. Instead simple inspiration from one track leadi...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WKAR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 6
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A great way to enjoy music on radio is to look forward to concert appearances. This is the case for touring musicians Lizz Wright, Marcia Ball, Ana...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WKAR, WVBI-LP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
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We hit the road starting with guitarist John Scofield for a remote at radio sponsor & financial supporter “The Womack.” We interview many, beginnin...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Cecilia, The WMNR Villa
Sun-soaked piazzas, gardens and olive trees, they're all here at "Cecilia", the WMNR villa in Tuscany.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:50
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The cool alto sax of East Coast Lee Konitz glides into a more bittersweet Charlie Parker tone, the pleasures of bebop continue with Buddy Rich play...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Imaginary Portrait of Leo & Pipo, Credit: Jason Anscomb (© Leo & Pipo)
Down-The-Rabbit-Hole Tenali invites you to take a billion year psychedelic adventure through caverns of pure light while bathing in elixirs of visi...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:49:53
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The Charlie Hunter Trio says come as you are, as it smells like teen spirit! Hunter was influenced by Roland Kirk, of whom we hear playing multiple...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
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A traditional Panamanian dance interpretation Puerto Rican-style by Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe opens, intensity builds with the Geoff Keezer/Joe...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKAR and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
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This episode we’re heavy on tropical rhythms, especially Brazilian. Canhoto da Paraiba doesn’t care about fame, just guitar. Reflective substantive...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6

  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Warriors and Knaves on a Stormy Monday

Bought by WOUB and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Here's where we meet the bend in the river. Our 1st hour stuck with very similar music styles. Now we reach the apex where the styles change but th...

Bought by WOUB and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 2
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Herbie Mann rides again from the Village Gate, Charlie Mariano re-create the vibe you woulda heard on jazz radio in the ‘70s, an alternative to the...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJSU and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Manuel Lima in The Cube, Credit: Anny Celsi
A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:03
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Host John Floridis visits with Ingrid Korvits director of Estonia's Grammy and multiple award winning Ellerhein Girls Choir. Even among Estonia's c...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: :30
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Host John Floridis visits with Ingrid Korvits director of Estonia's Grammy and multiple award winning Ellerhein Girls Choir. Even among Estonia's c...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The magnificent Machito in Grammy-award-winning form kicks in the downbeat, a three-quarter time signature by and for jazz men (Joe Henderson, Cal ...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
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The Victoria Requiem, settings for the Virgin Mary, and a Spanish Baroque mass.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:00
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Friend, pianist and collector John "Brazilian Gringo" Mueller is again guest for the first hour, our semi-regular ritual. We start like a bat out o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WKAR, WOUB, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding took up the violin at age five, was a concertmaster at fifteen and graduated from the Berklee School of Music at a...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:51