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Host, Richard Hadlock investigates performances by some of Jazz's greatest dramatic players while connecting their performances with that of the Gr...
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:55
Host, Richard Hadlock traces his formative years from 1945-1959 when he left Brazil at age 17 to go to College in Philadelphia. He reminisces his f...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 59:45
Piano players with "royal" nicknames are featured from Nat "King" Cole to Duke Ellington. Host, Richard Hadlock showcases musicians deserving of th...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 58:41
The San Francisco Bay Area Jazz scene is a special place known for its diversity and camaraderie among its musicians. Host, Richard Hadlock samples...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 01:01:51
Musical Instruments referred to by musicians as "Axes" are investigated. Often home made or manufactured there are hundreds of instruments. Host, R...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 02:02:36
Host, Richard Hadlock explores the players of yesteryear who showed immense talent as teenagers. Musicians, Jabbo Smith, Mary Lou Williams and Gene...
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 59:43
Exploring the art of reshaping and reforming familiar song melodies...A common practice done by jazz instrumentalists.
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 58:00
- Added: Mar 10, 2015
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 12
In this hour of The New Jazz Archive, we explore the shared history of jazz and film—from the role race played in shaping jazz's place at the movie...
Bought by WCPN, KHNS, KMUN, WVPE, KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 29
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
A Very Underground Show
Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMXT and more
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 10
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:24
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 58:58
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 2
33 tunes from 32 artists.
Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, WOUB, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
We continue our conversation with Pulitzer winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migratio...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Princeton economist Henry Farber and Laphonza Butler, the president of the SEIU's United Long Term Care Workers' Union.
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 59:00
VoiceBox celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial birthday with conversation and song when Peter Glazer, professor of Performance Studies at the Unive...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 59:01
This one hour program concentrates on the Jazz style of singing refereed to as Vocalese. Many of the artists are also scat singers and Jazz poets. ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WVAS, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ
- Added: May 12, 2012
- Length: 51:53
- Purchases: 4
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 01:52:56
Awarded the 2010 Bess Lomax Hawes Award for the preservation of cultural heritage, Judith McCulloh talks about her extensive work as a folklorist a...
- Added: Jul 29, 2011
- Length: 24:05
Charles Mingus was a Jazz musician, composer, and band leader. He recorded over one hundred albums and wrote over three hundred scores. Some of the...
Bought by KCNP, WESM 91.3 FM, Spokane Public Radio, and KREV-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 54:38
- Purchases: 4
Interview and discussion on the subject of the legendary JOSH WHITE with his son JOSH WHITE, Jr. his daughter JUDY WHITE-GOARD and his granddaughte...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 54:27
