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NEA Jazz Master Slide Hamilton
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Slide Hamilton on his Improvision; Life Experience; Connecting with the Audience; and Family Band.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 7
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master on His Nickname; Musician's Personality; Ballads; and Mainstream Music.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller on Tales of a Nun, The Tombone, Defining his Sound, "A Moment's Notice" and European Circus.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 9
NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on Let Up
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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SHE ENDURED THE CRITICISM. IT WAS 1959. BY THIS TIME, LINCOLN HAD ALREADY RECORDED SEVERAL ALBUMS AND EVEN HAD A SINGING ROLE IN A MOVIE. PIANIS...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln on Songs & Singing
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA JAZZ MASTER ABBEY LINCOLN DIDN’T PERFORM AS A SINGER UNTIL HIGH SCHOOL. SHE DIDN’T ACTUALLY ASPIRE TO PERFORM PROFESSIONALLY UNTIL SHE WAS DIS...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, Harford Community Radio, KVSC, KBEM and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 6
NEA Jazz Master Artie Shaw on Biggest Hits
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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THE LATE NEA JAZZ MASTER, ARTIE SHAW COMPOSED ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, BEGIN THE BEGUINE.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 7
NEA Jazz Master Artie Shaw on Being a Rebel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA JAZZ MASTER ARTIE SHAW WAS THE SON OF IMMIGRANT PARENTS AND HUNG OUT ON THE STREETS OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Jazz in the Beginning
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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MCPARTLAND’S MUSICAL EDUCATION CONTINUED AT LONDON’S GUIDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC WHERE SHE STUDIED CLASSICAL PIANO.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KBEM, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 10
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Jazz & Marriage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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IN 1943, MCPARTLAND MET CORNETIST JIMMY MCPARTLAND AT A USO CAMP IN BELGIUM. SHE WAS THE PIANIST AND HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE BAND THAT PLAYED FOR ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF, KMUW and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Marian McPartland on Duke & Monk Visiting
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA JAZZ MASTER MARIAN MCPARTLAND AND HER TRIO PLAYED A LONG RUNNING GIG AT THE HICKORY HOUSE, A FAMOUS NEW YORK NIGHTCLUB. EVERYONE USED TO STOP ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, KMUW, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods on his Teacher's Influence
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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SOME YOUNG MUSICIANS STUMBLE UPON A TEACHER WHO COMPLETELY CHANGES THE COURSE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT. 2007 NEA JAZZ MASTER PHIL WOODS WAS ONE OF THE...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio, WRTI and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Needle Drop: Mission of Burma and more...
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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This week, Mission of Burma makes Music Go Music.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WTIP, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2009
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
The Piano Psychologist
From: John Tynan
Caption: Piano, Credit: Flickr photo by midiman
John Tynan talked with a man who learns about people through an unlikely source.

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2009
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 2
Peace Talks Radio: Neighborhood Peace Through Arts and Parks (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Artist Lily Yeh in North Philadelphia
This time on Peace Talks Radio, we explore a program that transforms troubled neighborhoods into more peaceful, secure places through art, learning...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WTJU, WGDR and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 6
Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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Rolanda Scott, an art teacher and glass sculptor, has had one bout of cancer after another for the past eight years. When her time comes Rolanda's ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
Fortissimo
From: Erin Calabria
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A renowned conductor with Parkinson's disease struggles to keep music in his life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb On Recording Porgy and Bess
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb lucked into recording Porgy and Bess.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WUSF, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb Remembering Making the Kind of Blue Album
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb remembers being in the amazing Miles Davis Band.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, KCSM, WICR, WUSF and more


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
Musician Tip No. 54 - Jeanette Williams
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Tips on singing with emotion from Jeanette Williams.

  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: :33
Musician Tip No. 53 - Beth Stevens
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Beth Stevens speaks with WAMU's Bluegrass Country about the importance of education.

  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 01:20
Musician Tip No. 52 - Dale Ann Bradley
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Singing tips from Dale Ann Bradley.

  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 01:06
Musician Tip No. 51 - Cia Cherryholmes
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Travel tips from from Cia Cherryholmes.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:05
Musician Tip No. 50 - Bradley Walker
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Bradley Walker speaks with WAMU's Bluegrass Country about song selection.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: :49
Musician Tip No. 49 - Mark Delaney
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Tuning tips from from Mark Delaney.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: :57
Musician Tip No. 48 - Rebekah Weiler
From: WAMU
Series: Musician Tips
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Rebekah Weiler speaks with WAMU's Bluegrass Country about banjo shortcuts.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: :45

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