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Remembering the Jazz Legend Ahmad Jamal
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ahmad Jamal, Credit: Dl Media
In this 2012 interview, the recently-deceased NEA Jazz Master pianist Ahmad Jamal talks about his celebrated career.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., New England Public Media, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blow Your Horn
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next "Sounds Jewish" for a global playlist of Jewish saxophone tunes.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shop Till You Drop!
From: melodically challenged
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we will shop till we drop in shops, stores, malls, and every possible place to blow your payche...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:07:16
Leonard Bernstein, his Mass, and Mahler's Fifth--according to Ted Libbey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In honor of Bernstein’s 100th birthday (August 25), we turn to Ted Libbey, a music scholar who knew the American icon well. Since there’s so much g...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 13:47
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Credit: Thomas Wolf
Dana Tai Soon Burgess choreographs the American Experience.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2: Playground Detroit with Paulina Petkoski #62
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Two: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Paulina Petkoski
Season 2: Playground Detroit with Paulina Petkoski Romy interviews dynamo Paulina Petkowski, co-owner and co-founder of Playground Detroit! Learn...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 36:21
Director Donald Sanders--Making a Life on the Stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Ensemble for the Romantic Century blends chamber music with fully staged dramas and changes both theater and concerts in the process. Don Sanders i...

Bought by WABE, WNJR, KPIP-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Psychology of Jazz (Ep. 11)
From: Jeff Haas
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And what can musicians do to get over performance anxiety? We'll answer t...

Bought by WCPN, KMUN, KHNS, Radio New Zealand, WCPN and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
WoodSongs 775: FullSet and Las Cafeteras
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: FullSet from Ireland makes their debut on WoodSongs.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the LA Afro-Mexican ensemble Las Cafeteras plus award winning traditional...

Bought by KENW, RadioFreePalmer, WYAP, WLIW, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
WoodSongs 770: Crowder and The Collection
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: David Crowder makes his WoodSongs debut.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes critically acclaimed artist and songwriter Crowder plus North Carolina fo...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, WYAP, RadioFreePalmer, WLIW and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
WoodSongs 748: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers plus Tee Dee Young
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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On this week's broadcast, it's a celebration of the blues as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues guitar slinger Tommy Castro and his band t...

Bought by KENW, RadioFreePalmer, WLPR , WRGY, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Liner Notes: Rudy Van Gelder
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Rudy Van Gelder
Rudy Van Gelder is a recording engineer who loved jazz and is most notably associated with the sound of Blue Note Records. He recorded many legenda...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Jelly Role Morton
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Jelly Role Morton
Born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe in New Orleans right before the turn of the 20th Century, Jelly Role Morton is credited as one of the founding father...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hank Mobley
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Hank Mobley
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe illuminates the importance of those who will not settle for a glory in mediocrity, but who urge others to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cab Calloway
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Cab Calloway
Singer, dancer, and bandleader, Cab Calloway is often referred to as the “hi- di -hi- di-ho” man. His nonsensical sounds and improvised melodies ma...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Art Tatum
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Art Tatum
Self taught pianist, Art Tatum is acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. Listen as Rabbi Neil discusses the life of the inn...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ella Fitzgerald
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Ella Fitzgerald
Coming from a troubled childhood, Ella Fitzgerald found solace in music and song. Discovered at age 17, after singing in the style of the Boswell s...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
VoiceBox: Singing Without Sight
From: VoiceBox
Caption: Laurie Rubin
Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin discusses what it takes to lead a successful career as a singer when you're blind and how other sight-impaired...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
John Fullbright on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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We sat down and talked with John Fullbright in front of a LIVE audience at the 2012 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival.

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
KUT's Views and Brews: The Life and Legacy of Edith Piaf
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Edith Piaf
Join us with poet and historian Bette Oliver as she discusses Piaf’s life; from her impoverished childhood raised in a Paris brothel by her grandmo...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 56:19
VoiceBox: Sweet Hormony
From: VoiceBox
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Transgendered vocalists Eli Conley and Ashey Moore talk about how singers can successfully negotiate the shift from singing as a male to singing as...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Fresh Talk: Jason Moran
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Jason Moran
By phone, Cathy Byrd talks with jazz pianist Jason Moran about improvising and the ways he collaborates with contemporary artists.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 14:47
JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
The Piano Psychologist
From: John Tynan
Caption: Piano, Credit: Flickr photo by midiman
John Tynan talked with a man who learns about people through an unlikely source.

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2009
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 2
Greg Ellis - Biomusique
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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Together with Lisbeth Scott, Greg has formed Biomusique which offers textured music that mixes Greg's various percussion instruments with Lisbeth S...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: 28:08