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Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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 34: The Birth of the Cool
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 33: Proto-Cool – Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Pianist Lennie Tristano was a very visible participant in the modern jazz innovations of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, winning polls and p...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 32: Dixieland Revival - A Sense of History
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the 1940’s, some twenty-five to thirty years into the history of recorded jazz, the sometimes violent reaction against the bebop revolution caus...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 31: My Brainwaves in His Head, and His in Mine - Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Duke Ellington was the well-spring that flowed through many decades of jazz. In 1938, Ellington found his soul-mate in composer/arranger Billy Stra...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 30: Jazz on Central Avenue – Bebop in Los Angeles
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Most of the pioneering bebop musicians we have featured in the past several programs were centered in New York – Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Bud Powell, Col...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 29: Tadd Dameron – Fats Navarro – Sonny Stitt – JJ Johnson
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the past several hours of Jazz at 100, we have featured the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, ...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt (Newscast Friendly Cuts)
From: Paul Ingles
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The remarkable and varied performing career of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus archiv...

Bought by KRCU Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:47:57
  • Purchases: 2
Hour 28: The Genius of Modern Music - Thelonious Monk on Blue Note
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Emergence of Linda Ronstadt
From: Paul Ingles
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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
Paul Ingles' Music Showcase #004 - Why Monterey Pop Mattered (Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Hour 2 of an appreciation of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, generally recognized as the first pop or rock festival of all-time.

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Hour 27: Un Poco Loco - The Intensity of Bud Powell
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Partition Museum
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Amar Kapoor's Diary, Credit: Partition Museum
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
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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...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 25: Yardbird - The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra from Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Par...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 21
More stories please
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A debate about whether Nolan’s Dunkirk whitewashes history is perfectly legitimate but seventy years after India’s Independence isn’t it also time ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Hour 24: Bebop's Twin - Rhythm and Blues
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Some of the same forces that launched Bebop as a break from Big Band Swing, also fueled the birth of Rhythm and Blues – the rise of independent lab...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 23: Birth of Bebop
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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“By the early 1940s … a new approach to small-combo jazz playing was developing, characterized by a more flexible approach to rhythm, a more aggres...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Winona Municiple Band: Concert Six of the 2017 Season
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Winona Municipal Band
Welcome to our coverage of the 2017 season of the Winona Municipal Band, Directed by Levi Lundak. The band has been entertaining locals for 102 yea...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 55:22
Hour 22: Bebop Big Bands - Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Although Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman soldiered on, mostly keeping bands on the road into the 1970s (Ellington) and 1980s (Basie an...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 21
Hour 21: The Swing Era
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been m...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 20: Small Groups – Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, John Kirby
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the last hour we heard from prominent Swing Era soloists Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges and Lester Young, featured in small group settin...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
NL 17-29: Jazz In The French New Wave Cinema, 7/10/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The collaboration of American jazz artists such as Miles Davis and Art Blakey with French filmmakers in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Film schola...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Hour 19: Small Groups – Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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While the jazz of the thirties was predominantly remembered as coming from orchestras and big bands, seminal soloists continued to record memorable...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 18: The Entertainers - Fats Waller
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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By far the most commercially successful of the stride pianists, he made his reputation (and his living) through comedy. “He wasn’t witty, if that w...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19

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