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In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Singer Keely Smith became famous as the deapan sidekick to her husband Louis Prima, and as a ballad singer in the late 1950s. This week on Afterglo...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we explore the songs of Dorothy Fields, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose work stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. We’ll sample h...
- Added: Jul 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week, we celebrate the smoky voice of jazz singer Chris Connor, who got her start with Claude Thornhill’s band in the 1940s, and went on to re...
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
The name Beverly Kenney might be a footnote in jazz history, but this singer had an intelligent, alluring and melancholic style that’s among the be...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From the 1950s on, Ella Fitzgerald became known around the world as one of the most renowned live performers in jazz. This week, we’ll sample from ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This week, we take a look at some of the jazz and swing tunes from the 1950s Capitol Records diva Kay Starr, in honor of her 100th birthday.
- Added: Jul 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Doris Day was a pop star and a film star, but this week on Afterglow, I’ll highlight the often overlooked aspect of her career: a jazz singer. We’l...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
The Great American Songbook is chockablock with antiquated notions of gender roles, but a few songs flip the script. This week, we explore songs of...
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 27:04
The Great American Songbook is chockablock with antiquated notions of gender roles, but a few songs flip the script. On this special, we explore so...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Troy Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUNM and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
Eighty years ago - in 1940 - two Dutch women came to Cincinnati to start a spiritual center on a farm. They were part of The Grail, a women's movem...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 05:22
Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 30:10
The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 06:01
Miss Peggy Lee (born May 26, 1920) was more than a pop star: she was also a world-class songwriter in the male-dominated world of jazz. On this Aft...
Bought by Troy Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 12:24
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
My Uncle Harry died in World War II, before I was born. What I didn’t know was where he died, in a secret battle in the Aleutian Islands.
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 05:51
Gail describes her adventures shopping for clothes. It starts out fun, and then...
- Added: Aug 31, 2013
- Length: 13:58
The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 03:00
My contributution to the third coast project Dollar Storeys
- Added: Apr 16, 2007
- Length: 02:30
