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Past is future, and to prove it, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra have re-arranged ditties from 100 years ago (from their station of Richmond Indiana...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KECG, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
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Stumbling but hopefully forward we find ourselves once again after-ground-under-hours. From trumpeter Miles Davis’ famous “Cookin’” collection, “It...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Tell the truth, shame the devil: New jazz releases, and artists today, still deliver. We feature a batch from the Origin label, as well as their OA...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
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Return to sender? Hacksaw unknown: From a large orchestra composition, Dizzy Gillespie’s horn is heard with two drum sets and conga player. Then th...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KECG, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 11
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Herbie Mann is a jazz flute player remembered today, but his cohort also playing flute is Bobby Jaspar on our vintage opening number, continuing in...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WVBI-LP, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Blues men and vocalists of any kind fall out this entire episode, in fact not a big band to be heard for a solid mile. THESE ARE CRIMES. As we awai...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KHNS, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
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For starters it’s the ultimate tribute irony: Leader Joey DeFrancesco on organ, who died in August 2022, welcoming guest saxophonist Pharaoh Sander...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Michelle Atkinson goes by her roller derby name, Vod. She also named her craft business after the same moniker, Vod's Here. The venture is a brand ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Lively and fun, the bouncing of Barney Kessell’s guitar resounds among our reception areas, with Jimmy Witherspoon the only next logical bearer of ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WMOT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from poems old and new.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This group from north east Minneapolis describes themselves as a garage gospel band; a little bit soul, a little bit rock and roll. KQAL’s Mohammed...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:26:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Filmmaker and Cartoonist Nina Paley joins Tom and Doug for a lighthearted discussion of what qualities it takes for a work to be considered to be "...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Our favorite Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic starts a Hacksaw groove, then from Ruthie Foster's seasoned voice thru samba snow and vintage main...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 7
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with Waseca native Rachael Hanel. Rachael's memoir "We'll Be The Last Ones To Let You Down" explores her mem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:07
  • Purchases: 3
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New music from The Dutchess & the Duke, Holiday Shores, Neon Indian, and Herman Dune.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, WTIP, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 57:04
  • Purchases: 6