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Caption: Lionel Hampton
The Blues was never expected to join the British royalty, but in the 1920s, the musical genre morphed and shifted its course. When jazz melded with...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Earl HInes
A commonly used word for someone who played piano. Three of those artists are featured. One from the south, Jelly Roll Morton, East, Duke Ellington...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Lowell Fulson was a blues icon with a great history and is still an influence today to many blues musicians.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:47
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime championing her two passions: equal rights and classical music, often referencing the si...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:30
  • Purchases: 23
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This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 19:53
Caption: Red Onion Jazz Babies , Credit: 78 RPM Record
Buzz translates to rumor, and if Chicago was anything in the 1920s jazz and rumor were the glue. There was constant buss around political intrigue,...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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The first electric Blues artist to use a Fender Stratocaster given to him by Leo Fender himself.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sonny Greer
This program features a cross section of musicians … with paraphrases from Bill Crow’s book “Jazz Anecdotes”. Humorous stories about by Louis Armst...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Art Hodes Riverboat Club
Quite a number of jazz musicians who were too young to take part in traditional jazz of the 1920s, joined the Revivalist era of the 1940s. To them ...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The number of Black-owned farms has drastically declined since the 1920s, and now make up less than two percent of total U.S. farmland. In this epi...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Hollywood Fats (Michael Mann) was a young guitar player who loved the sounds and style of musics from a time long past.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Recorded at Decca Studios late one night into the early morning hours in 1947, three Chicago musicians reminisced their former times in early 20th ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:52:28
Caption: Don Redman, leader
You’d be hard press to find more enthusiastic musicians who anticipated and relished every beat. McKinney’s Cotton Pickers were a young group who a...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the earliest years of jazz, the process of recording wasn’t close to being perfected. Microphones didn’t exist. Vocalists had to belt out their ...

Bought by KVCR and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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An album of related topics which address the issues of the year 2020.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:58
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An eclectic collection of songs with a familiar theme in their lyrical content. The debut album from 'Moanin' Jack Webb', '2020 Pandemic of Fear'

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:58
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Jeff Healey was well known for his Blues/Rock, but his true love and passion was for American Jazz.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:56
Caption: young Sidney Bechet
Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet is among the giants of early jazz. An equal of Louis Armstrong. Yet, he is not that well remembered. Part of the ...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A recording reunion for two musicians in the Blues world.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:01
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A long overdue tribute to a great musician and contributor to the world of Blues Music, Debbie Davies.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:28
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Some historical recordings from another era.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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A revisit to a great album by Buddy Guy recorded in 2001.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:54
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Remembering one who introduced Blues to a new generation.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:02
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A new compilation record of a great modern day slide player.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:51