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On this episode, we bring you Sleeping Jesus and their performance during the Midwest Music Festival 2017. Nick Elsted, the lead vocalist of this W...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 32:41
Chopin guides us back home through a tender harmonic progression in the third movement of this masterpiece.
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 07:43
A moment of passion taken from the final movement of Barber's Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 04:08
A moment of exuberance taken from the Chaconne of J.S. Bach's Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004.
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 07:39
The exquisite "Amen" from Brahms' Geistliches Lied, Op. 30.
Performed by Singers of Anam Cara, directed by James Jordan.
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 06:29
Today's Musical Moment is taken from the Adagio movement of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, featuring Van Cliburn, Eugene Ormandy & The ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 04:35
This is a beautiful audio production about the more profound nature of our relationships with animals and the natural world. Hosted by NY Times bes...
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 47:22
- Purchases: 2
The Kronick Quintett plays frequently at the Public Kitchen and Bar, which faces the north side of Mears Park in Saint Paul. The group’s next perf...
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 05:00
As New Orleans lost its commercial position as a major port and blacks fled the oppression of the American south, the cream of NOLA musicians hit t...
Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, KMUN, WMOT and more
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 25
A few years ago, Jeff Senn and Mac Santiago, experienced Minnesota jazz players, noticed a lack of a Latin Jazz Orchestra locally. So they recruite...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Old Joe Clark has been around forever seemingly. It’s used as a square dance tune, so that helps keep it around. That it crooked and difficult to l...
- Added: Dec 31, 2016
- Length: 07:21
Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?
Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 8
Dizzy told us we ain’t heard nothin’ yet, then stood by his claim in ’46. The ever-present Blind Boys of Alabama bring in Koko Taylor, we need trom...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 02:00:00
- Purchases: 7
Penelope Freeh co-created Test Pilot with composer Jocelyn Hagen... Their original, live chamber orchestra, dance opera brings the history of aviat...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 07:08
"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 11
Up-and-coming as well as well-known Francophone Singer/Songwriters treat us to their beautiful songs. You do not need French language skills to en...
- Added: Jul 01, 2016
- Length: 27:15
Edmund Catlin is a young Twin Cities drummer who, while still in college, plays in a variety of jazz bands.
To Edmund, playing jazz requires a comb...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 06:53
When you listen to a big band recording, you have the pleasure of engaging with a large number of talented musicians. But even if it is a small big...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 08:10
It’s a challenge to be a full-time jazz musician. But challenging or not, that’s what Joel Shapira does. He does it by becoming expert at many phas...
- Added: May 01, 2016
- Length: 08:01
Beth Harrington talks strong women, powerful music, and Johnny Cash descending from heaven.
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 23:55
The Southside Aces is a Minneapolis-based New Orleans-style Jazz group playing uncompromised traditional Jazz. They play it the old way, but when a...
- Added: Apr 07, 2016
- Length: 09:10
An interview/music mix with Gayle Wald, author of "Shout, Sister, Shout. The story of Rock and Roll trailblazer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and WSGE
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 02:26:14
- Purchases: 3
The Origins of JazzGrass continues with a first pass through the most influential guitar players in bluegrass, jazz, progressive acoustic and relat...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 01:58:36
From: World Footprints LLC
Sharing American history and travel through the legendary voices of Maya Angelou and Ellis Marsalis along with well-known artists Sandra Izsadore a...
- Added: Feb 21, 2016
- Length: 59:55
Trumpet time, Eddie Henderson interprets Wayne Shorter. Then to usher in the topic of the hour, former employees Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Ji...
Bought by KMXT, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 6