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In the latter 1920s, bandleader Paul Whiteman began incorporating jazz elements into his band. In doing so, he hired quite a number of hot jazz art...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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The lives of thirteen people are featured in a new book–-but the real star is a 1957 Chevrolet Townsman wagon. Auto Biography tells the true story ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The lives of thirteen people are featured in a new book--but the real star is a 1957 Chevrolet Townsman wagon. Auto Biography tells the true story ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 53:48
- Purchases: 3
Pioneering blues and jazz guitarist Lonnie Johnson began playing professionally in New Orleans in 1917. He toured Europe with Marion Cook’s Souther...
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- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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Few musicians can claim the accolades given to Frankie Trumbauer during the 1920s and 1930s. Unfortunately, he’s largely overlooked today; his infl...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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What’s a “foodshed” and how can we strengthen our local and regional economies with and through food and farming? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and R...
- Added: Jul 14, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Reed artist Frankie Trumbauer contributions to early jazz have been overshadowed by the role he played in Bix Beiderbecke's career.
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- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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We can’t be truly independent if we lose control of our food supply. As our nation celebrates its 237th birthday, we can support homeland food secu...
- Added: Jul 05, 2013
- Length: 28:00
A six square mile area of New York City became the hotspot for jazz in the late 1920s. Duke Ellington called it, “The world’s most glamorous atmos...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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When washboard was King. Well, that may be a stretch, but the popularity of that musical instrument, when it was used as such, reached a height in...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Ah, summer, the shortest season of the year. Or, at least it seems that way. This show is devoted to a few really hot bands and vocalists who guar...
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- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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This program is devoted to those pioneers of jazz piano from Scott Joplin to Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller.
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- Added: Jun 07, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Bobby speaks, from a boat, off the coast of Shell Island, located in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, with Tobia Spinelli, Ben Coletti and a co...
- Added: Jun 02, 2013
- Length: 01:19:14
Original stride pianist James P. Johnson began his professional recording career in 1916 with the Aeolian Company by recording several piano rolls....
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- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...
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- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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Author and philosopher Jean Houston offers a guidepost into the world of Dorothy and L Frank Baum in which she delves into the deeper messages held...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 27:55
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...
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- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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This program features those wonderfully talented lyricists of the 1920s who created such memorial songs as "Margie," "You Took Advantage of Me," "T...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 58:57
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As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...
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- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 49:30
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Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 58:58
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The music of american legend James Hubert "Eubie" Blake. Pianist, composer, vocalist, and a man who could reinvent himself as times demanded.
- Added: Feb 13, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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On this episode of The Conscious Consultant Hour w/Sam Liebowitz: Unlock your inner secrets and find your true self & purpose w/psychic medium Mink...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:00:35
Isaac L. “Banjo Ikey” Robinson was a multi instrumentalist jazz musician who specialized on banjo. Even when most musicians had stuffed their banjo...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:56
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There are no crystal balls. No one really knows the direction technology is going to take us. But, there are always those best guesses.
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 28:55
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In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets Luci Westphal, a German filmmaker based in New York and Berlin, to talk about Luci's moving postcards and her latest do...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 19:17
