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Fresh Talk: The MacDowell Colony
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: The MacDowell Colony, Medal Day 2012
Cathy Byrd recorded this Fresh Talk episode when she visited The MacDowell Colony, a highly regarded New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers and...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 12:33
Culturology: Erika Kooda presents an essay about the results of her tryout with a a major drum corps program
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
London Fats
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas "Fats" Waller
Thomas “Fats” Waller was known for his comedic style vocals, and his feverish motions of left hand creating a profound pattern of “Stride” piano, b...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Pettis & his Pets
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jack Pettis
Saxophonist Jack Pettis was a pioneer in the introduction of the C-Melody in the early 1920s. According to tenor Bud Freeman, he was the king, and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Sounds of Christmas
From: Billy Foster
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A two hour program of Christmas music as played in the jazz tradition by your favorite jazz artists (Cyrus Chestnut, Tony Bennett, Sean Jones, Duke...

Bought by WDCB, WICR, WDCB, WCPN, 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:18
  • Purchases: 6
Bassy Baritones
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Wolverines with Min Leibrook, sax
In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
A New Orleans Christmas!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: New Orleans Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Crescent City, NEW ORLEANS! Today, we will serve gumbo Christmas rhythms mixed with Jazz, R&B, Blues an...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WCVE, WICR, WJAB, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 50:49
  • Purchases: 10
Red & the Bean
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:52
Latin Jazz for Dancing.
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: ALL Music
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Latin Jazz for dancing.

Bought by WJSU, WCSU-FM, and WSLR


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
Latin Jazz plays John Coltrane
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: Latin Perspective - Special Editions
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As part of the Latin Jazz plays jazz series, this edition focuses on the music of legendary Jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane.

Bought by WJSU and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jun 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 2
Latin Jazz plays Charlie Parker.
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: Latin Perspective - Special Editions
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As part of the Latin Jazz plays jazz series, this edition features renditions of jazz legend, saxophonist, Charlie Parker, rendered by latin Jazz a...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Playing for Change: Bringing peace to the world through music
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Playing for Change co-founder and Grammy award winning sound engineer Mark Johnson talks about the project he created to connect people all over th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 19:58
Mr. Bass Sax
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrain Rollini
Adrian Rollini was a renaissance man of jazz. Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, he created new ways of performing on existing instruments, inv...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Say Yes to Unicycle
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The extraordinary education of a Maine family

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Overlooked Composer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Sheet Music Cover
Walter Donaldson should be one of the most recognizable composers of the 20th century with songs like "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," and "Love Me, Or ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
A Conversation with Jazz Master, Jimmy Owens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, and advocate Jimmy Owens talks about his life in jazz.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 34:25
  • Purchases: 1
A Jazz Christmas
From: Billy Foster
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A program of Christmas music as played in the jazz tradition by your favorite jazz artists (Dexter Gordon, Roy Hargrove, Oscar Peterson, Bobby Wats...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WICR, KMSU, WJSU, WSLR and more


  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:59:14
  • Purchases: 20
Sounds from a Green World
From: John Loftus
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The very best in Irish rock & pop music

  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 01:29:25
Exit 29: Goodnight Ypsilanti
From: Sam Dingman
Series: The Road 2 Shambala
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Live music from Marshall York. Kanye West, sweet potatoes, and Buddhist cowboys are covered extensively.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:03:28
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Ron Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music.

Bought by KMUW and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:22
  • Purchases: 2
Program I: Origins
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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Program I: Origins How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:40
  • Purchases: 27
indefinite artichoke
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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elucidating the realm of edible space and object

  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:18
BEAT LATINO 042: Protest Songs from the Americas
From: Catalina Maria Johnson
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The music has the message! An hour of socially conscious music from all over the Latin musical universe.

Bought by WKAR, KMXT, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Gerard Schwarz (Participate)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Gerard Schwarz
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WSKG, WMNR, KRPS and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 6
Northern Lights 2010: A Solstice Celebration
From: Cheryl Willoughby
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Vermont Public Radio's Cheryl Willoughby presents “Northern Lights,” a singing and dancing celebration to welcome the solstice and coming of the ne...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRPS, KRPS, and WUAL


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4