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Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

In Duke Ellington's Eulogy to Billy Strayhorn he wrote, "His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others, but to himself." As we ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Oct 28, 2013
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 1

NEA Jazz Moments with Eddie Palmieri [second installment]

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

Three more short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, EDDIE PALMIERI. In this batch, we learn about Eddie's exposure to mambo at a young age; ...

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

Added: Jul 22, 2013
Length: 03:27
Purchases: 14

Clifford Brown

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 23, 2013
Length: 02:35
Purchases: 2

Billie Holiday

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUPR low power FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 10, 2013
Length: 03:04
Purchases: 4

Benny Goodman

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Mar 22, 2013
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 2

Midnight Melodies: MIT After Hours

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places

For Joe, the best part of playing the piano is doing it where no one’s listening.

Added: Mar 14, 2013
Length: 02:29

Charles Mingus

From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes

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

NEA Jazz Moments wirth Lorraine Gordon

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, LORRAINE GORDON. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, KJZX-Austin and more

Added: Jan 04, 2013
Length: 03:27
Purchases: 12

Love the French Way 13 - Write to Me

From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way

La Grande Sophie (Tall Sophie) asks her lover to keep writing and open up to her.

Added: Dec 14, 2012
Length: 04:40

First Kiss

From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio

A dead squid in your mouth. Slugs. A mollusk. We're talking about your first kiss.

Added: Nov 13, 2012
Length: 03:16

Booksmellers Unite

From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio

The smell of a book can like that of a lover - musky and old with experience, brand new, immature and innocent. Or, knowledgeable and hard-covered....

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Added: Nov 09, 2012
Length: 06:31
Purchases: 1

Love the French Way 10 - Lost Beauty

From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way

I'll show courage, I'll channel my anger and let time go by, but it will take a lot more to cope with the loss of your beauty.

Added: Oct 13, 2012
Length: 04:33

Love the French Way 8 - Mathilde

From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way

Following a traumatic breakup, Mathilde is back in town, leaving her ex-partner in a state of panic.

Added: Sep 06, 2012
Length: 04:08

Drones: A New Death From Above

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We bring you voices from Pakistan of families destroyed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists working to build a g...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Aug 21, 2012
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Love the French Way 3 - Bluer Than Your Eyes

From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way

Edith Piaf in an upbeat mood, interprets a beautiful love song written especially for her by Charles Aznavour.

Bought by KUT

Added: Jul 19, 2012
Length: 04:43
Purchases: 1

Love the French Way 1 - Hotel of the Caravelles

From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way

A beautiful spring day, a small city, a man and a woman cross paths. They may have encountered each other before..., thus starts the beautiful love...

Bought by KUT

Added: Jul 05, 2012
Length: 04:42
Purchases: 1

East Oakland (in Blue)

From: Mwende Hahesy

East Oakland neighbors wax poetic about their neighborhood with rhymes from Oakland hip-hop artist Do D.A.T.'s album "Oakland in Blue" laid in for ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Apr 25, 2012
Length: 03:00
Purchases: 1

Moments with Jazz Master, Von Freeman

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

3 Moments with tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Von Freeman.

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

Added: Apr 18, 2012
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 10

Moments with NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments

4 "Moments" with trumpeter, flugelhornist, and advocate, Jimmy Owens.

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

Added: Apr 18, 2012
Length: 05:56
Purchases: 10

Calm outside the infinite

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places

Overcaffeinated and stressed, MIT students rush down the "infinite corridor." But a few steps away is all it takes to make a calming, peaceful moment.

Added: Mar 21, 2012
Length: 01:57

More than an office

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places

It's just a simple office, but for some students it's like a home, complete with an "adoptive mother." It's a routine place made special.

Added: Mar 21, 2012
Length: 02:27

The place, the music, the memories

From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places

For one Indian classical singer, a crowded little apartment in Queens--or even just the sound of a shruthi box (an Indian-style musical drone)--bri...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Mar 21, 2012
Length: 02:36
Purchases: 1

Iran's Longest Night

From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio

This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix