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Chiaroscuro is a technique in visual art that tells vivid stories through sharp contrasts of light and dark. This week on Harmonia, we’ll uncover m...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Stylus fantasticus - the very words bring wild, swirling, colorful images leaping into the imagination! This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore this e...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 59:02
Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...
- Added: Jun 19, 2022
- Length: 59:02
Known for his theme for “Mission: Impossible” and other TV and movie scores, Schifrin forged his career in the late 1950s and early 60s world of ja...
- Added: Jun 07, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Reissued studio recordings and live performances from jazz artist Eric Dolphy’s penultimate year.
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Birdland was known as “the jazz corner of the world,” and from 1949 to 1965 it played host to some of the greatest names on the modern jazz scene.
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Over the course of jazz history, it's become a tradition for jazz artists to write musical elegies in memory of fellow musicians that have departed...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 59:04
As Hollywood prepared to adapt George Gershwin’s folk opera to the screen in the late 1950s, jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and ...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 59:02
Jazz hustler, vocalese master, and preacher of hip Babs Gonzales gets a tribute, featuring his recordings with Sonny Rollins, trombonist Bennie Gre...
- Added: May 06, 2022
- Length: 59:02
A centennial tribute to the bassist and composer, focusing on recordings he made in the 1950s with poet Langston Hughes and other writers and perfo...
- Added: Apr 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Music documentarian Paul Ingles presents an exploration and celebration of the music and often times controversial story of rock legend Jerry Lee L...
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In the 1950s and 60s, as the Cold War & the civil-rights movement heated up, the U.S. State Department sent jazz musicians on goodwill tours around...
- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
This hard-bitten 1957 movie about a desperate publicity agent and a powerful press maven (played by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, respectively) c...
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Our salute to a pioneer of world-music influences in jazz concludes with a look at his career after moving to New York City at the start of the dec...
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 59:01
There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and e...
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Music from a new box set of the bandleader’s 1940s and early 50s recordings, along with commentary from set annotator and jazz scholar Jeff Sultanof.
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 59:04
Melba Liston was a pioneering female jazz artist both as a trombonist and as a composer/arranger. We'll trace her career from Gerald Wilson's 1940s...
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 59:04
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 59:01
Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington . Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the t...
- Added: Feb 20, 2022
- Length: 59:03
Back from our brief convalescence to bring you desert prayers in the night — Ancient Egyptian prayers & psalms, in this case. And some tales of Mul...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 11, 2022
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...
Bought by WJCT, KUHF, WABE, WVIA, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 25
Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, Ellington was writing music that celebrated African-American culture, personalities,...
Bought by WJCT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KTXK and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 6
Music tributes to African-American figures such as Paul Robeson and Joe Louis from Count Basie, Clifford Jordan, Charles Mingus and others.
- Added: Jan 28, 2022
- Length: 58:59
As the Blue Note label declined throughout the 1970s, one of its most prolific artists continued to make outstanding records with players such as F...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 59:02
