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Hour 17: The Entertainers – Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Jazz has often been understood through the lens of the conflict between art and commerce. In the 1930s, several artists successfully blurred these ...

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Private Price's War: The Long, Long Trail
From: Susan Barrett Price
Series: Family History: The Stars Who Guide Us
Caption: Walter Price, 314th Combat Engineers
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:19
Hour 15: Chick Webb & Benny Goodman
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the mid-1930s, jazz orchestras led by drummer Chick Webb and clarinetist Benny Goodman rose to prominence with the arrangements of Edgar Sampson...

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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:06
  • Purchases: 22
Boilermaker Classics
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Purdue Boilermakers, Credit: Purdue
We’ll hear music about trains, and learn some little known facts and myths about Purdue on today’s What’s New.

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Hour 14: Beyond Category - Duke Ellington in the 1930s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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 KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, KENW, WCNY and more


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 13: Count Basie - Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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 KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
A Shortcut Back to 1967-The Summer of Love
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: George Harrison & Patti Boyd 1967
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Summer of Love as we travel back to 1967 with LBJ, Mick Jagger, Frank Zappa, Julie Christie, John Cage, Timot...

Bought by KRZA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 30:36
  • Purchases: 2
Hour 12: Ascent of the Tenor - Coleman Hawkins
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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We have to remember that the clarinet dominated the reeds throughout the 1920s. Sidney Bechet made a stand with the soprano sax and Frankie Trumbau...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:55
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 11 - Kansas City and the Territory Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In this hour, we’ll explore the early jazz of Kansas City and the Territory Bands.

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


  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 22
Hour 10: Birth of the Big Bands
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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 9: Up in Harlem - Duke Ellington
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In previous programs in this series, we have listened to Stride pianists and jazz orchestras from New York. In this hour, we’ll return to Harlem to...

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


  • Added: Apr 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 26
Hour 8: Bix and the Boys
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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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
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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
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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
Trapped on the Wrong Side of History
From: Richard Paul
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A Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan in WWII

Bought by KGOU, KUER, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WCPN and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 6
Copland
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Aaron Copland, Credit: Victor066
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
A Shortcut Tribute Mix- 2016 (Part Two)
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Scotty Moore with Elivis
This special mix features another gathering of the many artists, actors, musicians, comedians and celebrities who left us in 2016--from Muhammad Al...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Presidential Shortcuts-2016
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Young Hillary
"Presidential Shortcuts 2016" takes a historical look at elections from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama while comparing Donald Trump and Hillary Cl...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 1
Euphoria of Wine: Varietals and History
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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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
Scotty Moore & Sun Records
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: That's All Right Mama, Credit: Elvis, Scotty & Bill
Johnny Depp as Keith Richards explains his early exposure to the Sun Records sound and his Scotty Moore stories.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:37
More Sondheim
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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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
16-18 Agustin Barrios Mangore Tribute
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Nitsuga Mangore (Agustin Barrios Mangore)
In honor of the 131st anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive features a tribute to Paraguayan guitarist-composer A...

Bought by Ohm Radio , New Hampshire Public Radio, WKMS, KXIQ , KTXK and more


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 42
'The Stone Age' Program 80
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This program highlights the very best of electric music from the 60's and 70's for all audiences.

Bought by KEOS, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, WOUB, KEOS and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
1920's
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Likely the most historic decade in launching the Musical Comedy as an American art form; Showboat; The Gershwins & Cole Porter

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and WRR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
Across The Blue Ridge - Episode 9 (Music of Southwestern Virginia and Beyond)
From: WFDD
Caption: Wade Ward (l.) and Charlie Higgins were two of the most revered old time musicians from the southwest of Virginia in and around the town of Galax. We hear from them and others in a program with a big component of southwest Virginia musicians. , Credit: Photo: John Cohen
This week we check out some songs and tunes old and new from the Galax, Virginia area and beyond.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 57:07

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