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Tenorist Paul Gonzalvez electrified the crowd with 27 blues choruses on "Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue" with Duke Ellington at Newport 1...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida and more

Added: Oct 18, 2017
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 21

Hour 28: The Genius of Modern Music - Thelonious Monk on Blue Note

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In 1940, Minton's Playhouse on West 118th Street hired drummer Kenny Clarke as a bandleader. For the house band, Clarke hired trumpeter Joe Guy, ba...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more

Added: Sep 01, 2017
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 22

The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt

From: Paul Ingles

The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus archi...

Bought by KNCT FM, KSJE, Prairie Public, KSUT, WYSO and more

Added: Aug 31, 2017
Length: 01:57:59
Purchases: 20

Hour 27: Un Poco Loco - The Intensity of Bud Powell

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Mentored by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell became the first great piano innovator of bebop. “It would be hard to overstate Powell’s impact. His ingeni...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, KRPS and more

Added: Aug 25, 2017
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 20

Partition Museum

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies. The partition ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Aug 21, 2017
Length: 06:00
Purchases: 1

Hour 26: That Dizzy Cat - Dizzy Gillespie

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody He...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more

Added: Aug 18, 2017
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 22

Hour 22: Bebop Big Bands - Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Although Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman soldiered on, mostly keeping bands on the road into the 1970s (Ellington) and 1980s (Basie an...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more

Added: Jul 21, 2017
Length: 58:58
Purchases: 21

Hour 14: Beyond Category - Duke Ellington in the 1930s

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In the last hour, we heard Count Basie emerge as an exciting new voice from Kansas City. In this hour, we return to New York to follow Duke Ellingt...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, KENW, WCNY, KMUN and more

Added: May 26, 2017
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 22

Hour 13: Count Basie - Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In the eleventh hour of Jazz at 100, we followed Count Basie through the Benny Moten Band in Kansas City and heard his first recordings as a leader...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, KMUN and more

Added: May 19, 2017
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 22

Hour 10: Birth of the Big Bands

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In the last hour, we listened to the pioneering jazz orchestra of Duke Ellington. Large jazz ensembles, such as Ellington’s, soon to be known as “B...

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN and more

Added: Apr 27, 2017
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 22

Hour 8: Bix and the Boys

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In this hour we will listen to Bix Beiderbecke's music often in the company of C-melody saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer. We’ll also listen to several...

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN and more

Added: Apr 13, 2017
Length: 58:58
Purchases: 24

Hour 6: Up in Harlem – Stride

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

In this hour we’ll stick with New York, but focus in on the piano music of Harlem – “Stride.” We are joined in this hour by Art Wheeler, pianist, p...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more

Added: Mar 31, 2017
Length: 58:57
Purchases: 22

Hour 5: Up in Harlem – The Bands

From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100

Now we move to the other emerging center of the music, New York. While New York hosted small combos similar to Chicago, it also grew a number of si...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT, RadioStPete Florida and more

Added: Mar 27, 2017
Length: 58:58
Purchases: 23

Copland

From: WBAA
Series: What's New

We’ll hear music from early and late in Aaron Copland’s career on this What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more

Added: Feb 16, 2017
Length: 01:58:00
Purchases: 7

Euphoria of Wine: Varietals and History

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Radio Curious discusses the history and evolution of wine with Glenn McGourty, the Winegrowing and Plant Science Advisor at the University of Calif...

Added: Oct 25, 2016
Length: 29:01

More Sondheim

From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town

The songs, backstory and biography of the grand old-man of the American Theater: Stephen Sondheim

Bought by KAAD-LP, WVTF, and WRR

Added: May 20, 2016
Length: 58:29
Purchases: 3

Magical Martinique: The Island of Flowers

From: World Footprints LLC

Caption: Anse Cafard Slave Memorial on Martinique., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick

Imagine paradise where your senses explode with a banquet of color, or scents and flavors exicte, or where you experience exotic tranquility. That...

Bought by KTSW 89.9

Added: Jan 03, 2016
Length: 59:55
Purchases: 1

The Father of the Man In America

From: Richard Paul - with Folger Library
Series: Shakespeare in American Life with Sam Waterston

Shakespeare in American Civic Life and Education

Bought by WCPN, WSKG, KCPW Salt Lake City, WHYY, WVPE and more

Added: Dec 07, 2015
Length: 58:56
Purchases: 9

Exploring Las Vegas, Jacksonville (FL), Wisconsin and the Czech Republic

From: World Footprints LLC

Caption: Prague, a UNESCO site and capital of the Czech Republic. , Credit: Courtesy of Czech Tourism

World Footprints will criss-cross the United States from Las Vegas, and Jacksonville, Florida to Wisconsin and we will put a spotlight on the rich ...

Added: Dec 06, 2015
Length: 59:55

Around The Bend E37

From: Maximilian Eyle
Series: Around The Bend

A study in modern American reggae, featuring music from Stick Figure, SOJA, and Tribal Seeds.

Added: Aug 11, 2015
Length: 59:57

Working Water (Part One)

From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Rivers That Were

Part One of Rivers That Were, Working Water, compares two environmental crises. On the Colorado River Basin, it’s the ongoing effort to restore the...

Added: Jun 09, 2015
Length: 55:53

Remembering Selma: 50th Anniversary

From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®