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This airing of Folk Salad features some new and older music that we have been digging into. Artists like Nicolette and the Nobodies, Cody Jinks, K...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Part II of coming back to Oklahoma on Folk Salad. We will play artists from Jimmy Markham to Charlie Chirstian. Select tunes from Tommy Crook, Je...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:59
In the spring of 1945 Duke Ellington undertook a weekly Saturday broadcast to support the war-bond drive. We’ll hear music from these programs as ...
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: :00
In the late 1970s the Columbia label was home to an array of talented jazz musicians, including Woody Shaw, Arthur Blythe, Dexter Gordon, and Weath...
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:04
The rise of big bands in the 1930s and 40s played a key role in the popularization of jazz, and provided a soundtrack for Americans navigating a ch...
- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.
- Added: May 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Though Nat King Cole is remembered today for his popular vocal recordings, this show celebrates his unsung prowess as a modernistic pianist.
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 59:01
When Christian IV of Denmark visited his brother-in-law James Stuart in England, they threw some raucous, wild parties, so not surprisingly King Ch...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
A centennial tribute to the composer focusing on the jazzy music that he wrote for films and TV shows such as Touch Of Evil and Peter Gunn.
- Added: Apr 14, 2024
- Length: 59:04
Tonight on Folk Salad we celebrate April Fools, by featuring all songs about "Fools." You would be surprised how many songs that have been written...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Siinger/songwriter Malcolm Holcombe passed from this earth Mar. 9th, 2024. Malcolm was rooted in this earth, but when he performed he was never re...
- Added: Mar 30, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Folk Salad celebrates female singer/songwriters, prompted by a new release from Sarah Jarosz.
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 58:59
The focus on this Folk Salad program is Women's History Month with all Oklahoma female artists, and there are plenty to choose from starting with W...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 58:59
In 1957 Curtis Fuller arrived in New York City at the age of 22 and preceded to record with Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, and John Coltrane, as well as ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A centennial tribute to singer Sarah Vaughan focuses on her early recordings with Billy Eckstine’s big band and as a rising solo star with Charlie ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2024
- Length: 59:02
For two weeks Bill McGlaughlin and Carnegie Hall’s Archivist Gino Francesconi toured backstage for a view of the three concert venues, the hall’s h...
Bought by KCME
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 46:18
- Purchases: 1
Exploring a legendary 1950s New York City jazz club with musician David Amram, who frequented it as both a musician and a listener.
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practitioner, recordin...
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Texas songwriter Bee Taylor and raw Americana duo Goldpine.
Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBRW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KJZX-Austin, KMSU and more
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 30
The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
In 1433, around 3:00 PM in Scotland in high summer, the sun vanished. This total solar eclipse came to be known as “The Black Hour.” Join us this ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Eclipses are awe-inspiring even today, but imagine witnessing an eclipse in the days before dollar-store glasses. You might not know why the sun wa...
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:01
A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...
Bought by KVCR
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Folk Salad celebrates Black History Month by featuring all black artists still with us and still making music. Artists like Blind Boys of Alabama,...
- Added: Feb 25, 2024
- Length: 58:59
A centennial celebration of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00